When creating a simple figure in MATLAB and saving it as PDF, the resulting PDF file will have a luxurious bounding box.
plot(1,1,'x') print(gcf, '-dpdf', 'test.pdf'); (From the ratio of the output it seems they always put in on an A page.)
Is there a simple way to get a tight bounding box around the PDF?
You can format the bounding box as follows
figure(1) hold on; plot(1,1,'x') ps = get(gcf, 'Position'); ratio = (ps(4)-ps(2)) / (ps(3)-ps(1)) paperWidth = 10; paperHeight = paperWidth*ratio; set(gcf, 'paperunits', 'centimeters'); set(gcf, 'papersize', [paperWidth paperHeight]); set(gcf, 'PaperPosition', [0 0 paperWidth paperHeight]); print(gcf, '-dpdf', 'test2.pdf'); For smaller borders, you can adjust the paperposition property, e.g.
set(gcf, 'PaperPosition', [-0.5 -0.5 paperWidth+0.5 paperHeight+0.5]); An old question, but I'll answer since google found this for me before the Mathworks own help page (Sorry no reputation enough to post a comment to previous). Anyway
ratio = (ps(4)-ps(2)) / (ps(3)-ps(1)) should be
ratio = ps(4)/ps(3); as first values gcf.Position are [x,y] location on the screen, nothing to do with the size.
Also Matlab(R) gives an answer, especially if you don't want/need to resize figure: https://se.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/save-figure-with-minimal-white-space.html
fig = gcf; fig.PaperPositionMode = 'auto' fig_pos = fig.PaperPosition; fig.PaperSize = [fig_pos(3) fig_pos(4)];