Matlab is not saving the whole figure in epsc2 format

Hi,

I am having trouble in saving a figure in epsc2 format. Looks like matlab cuts out part of the figure while saving the figure. Below is the code I am suing where I set figure size in inches and set the renderer to painters. Sometimes matlab saves the whole figure as intended but most of the time it cuts out a significant part of the figure. I use matlab on ubuntu m/c with nvidia driver. Below is the code I am using,

LineStyles = {'-c', '--m','-.r',':g','-+b','-oc','-s','-d','-^','-*'}; % 10 types total

LineStyles1 = {'oc', 'om','or','og','ob','oc','om','-d','-^','-*'}; % 10 types total

figWidth = 3; figheight = figWidth/1; formatEng = '-depsc2';

set(groot,'defaultFigurePaperPositionMode','manual');

figure(); set(gcf,'Renderer','painters');

set(gcf, 'PaperUnits', 'inches', 'PaperPosition', [0 0 figWidth figheight]);

hold all;

counter = 0;

for kk = 1:2:length(heightVec)

    counter = counter + 1;

    %plot(kx_fourier.*(BLH/z_i), fourier_spectra_u_frame(kk,:).*kx_fourier./ustar^2, LineStyles{counter}); 

    plot(kx_fourier.*z_vec(heightVec(kk))/z_i, fourier_spectra_u_frame(kk,:).*kx_fourier./ustar^2, LineStyles{counter}); 
    %plot(kwave.*(BLH/z_i), wavelet_spectra_u_frame(kk,:).*kwave./ustar^2,LineStyles1{counter}); 

    plot(kwave.*z_vec(heightVec(kk))/z_i, wavelet_spectra_u_frame(kk,:).*kwave./ustar^2,LineStyles1{counter}); 
end
xlabel('$k_x z$','Interpreter','Latex','FontSize',10);

ylabel('$k_x E_{11}(k_x)u_*^{-2}$','Interpreter','Latex','FontSize',10);

%xlim([0.05 50]);

%ylim([8e-9 0.00004]);

xx = [0.3 19];

loglog(xx,xx.^(-2/3).*1,'LineWidth',2); % -2/3 slope

text(5, 0.45, '-2/3','FontSize',8);

set(gca,'XScale','log'); set(gca,'YScale','log');

SPR = sprintf('%s','wavelet_n_fourier_spectra_ek02_pre.eps');

set(gcf, 'Color', 'w');

print(SPR, formatEng);

Can you please suggest me a way to solve the problem. I tried to find a solution online but did not find a solution.

Attached is the output I get.

[mak]

I have found out a workaround. Not printing the figure to display solves the problem. So, basically, these two lines solve the problem.

fh = figure()

set(fh, 'Visible','off');

Answer 1

[Saurabh Gupta]

It is possible that print switches to OpenGL renderer for your figure, which causes this issue. You may want to specify the renderer for the print command to force it to use painters. This section of the documentation explains it.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016b/matlab/ref/print.html#input_argument_formattype

"If you set the Renderer property for the figure, then print uses that renderer when generating output. Otherwise, print chooses the appropriate renderer. Typically, print uses the Painters renderer when generating vector graphics files. For some complex figures, print uses the OpenGL renderer instead. If it uses the OpenGL renderer, then the vector graphics file contains an embedded image, which might limit the extent to which you can edit the image in other applications. To ensure that print uses the Painters renderer, set the Renderer property for the figure to 'painters' or specify '-painters' as an input argument to print."