Exporting figures as vector graphics in .pdf-format using HG2-Update and 'painters' renderer is not working properly

Question

I\'m using the still undocumented HG2-Update to create my MATLAB plots, because they just look that much nicer.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and used the workaround from thewaywewalk. Now I discovered the MATLAB function "hgexport" works under HG2 (in R2014a).

An issue still was the paper size. I want to use the same size for all graphs with as little white frame as possible. Here you have to set two sizes:

The papersize is set with set(gcf,'PaperSize',[width height]) and the size of your chart is set through export styles. These are set in "Export Setup" or command line:

exp_style=hgexport('readstyle','default');
exp_style.Width = 'width';
exp_style.Height = 'height';
exp_style.Renderer = 'painters';

Now you can export your pdf:

hgexport(gcf,'pdfname',exp_style,'Format','pdf');

PS: In HG2 you may also use Latex for tick labels:

set(gca,'TickLabelInterpreter','latex');