How to save a plot into a PDF file without a large margin around [duplicate]

Answer 1

The script in How to get rid of the white margin in MATLAB's saveas or print outputs does what you want.

Make your figure boundaries tight:

ti = get(gca,'TightInset')
set(gca,'Position',[ti(1) ti(2) 1-ti(3)-ti(1) 1-ti(4)-ti(2)]);

... if you directly do saveas (or print), MATLAB will still add the annoying white space. To get rid of them, we need to adjust the ``paper size":

set(gca,'units','centimeters')
pos = get(gca,'Position');
ti = get(gca,'TightInset');

set(gcf, 'PaperUnits','centimeters');
set(gcf, 'PaperSize', [pos(3)+ti(1)+ti(3) pos(4)+ti(2)+ti(4)]);
set(gcf, 'PaperPositionMode', 'manual');
set(gcf, 'PaperPosition',[0 0 pos(3)+ti(1)+ti(3) pos(4)+ti(2)+ti(4)]);