Exporting a figure with an opaque legend box but no visible edge

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I want to make a figure whose legend has no visible border (so I set the legend edge colour to be white), but has an opaque background (so I do not turn the legend box off). Using the following code I can achieve this:
% Generate some data to plot
fakeXData = linspace(0,2*pi,100);
fakeYData1 = sin(fakeXData);
fakeYData2 = cos(fakeXData);
% Plot data
clf
plot(fakeXData, fakeYData1, 'r-', 'LineWidth', 2);
hold on
plot(fakeXData, fakeYData2, 'b-', 'LineWidth', 2);
% Legend
Lgd = legend({'Sine Curve','Cosine Curve'});
set(Lgd,'EdgeColor','white');
This successfully produces the figure I would like, as below:
matlabQ-window.png
I would then like to export the figure with my specified high resolution (i've used a low quality here for the purpose of uploading). To do this I use the following print command, since saveas outputs with screen resolution:
% Save image
print(gcf,'image','-dpng','-r600');
The figure produced is shown below, where notice the legend's box is back:
image.png
If I use saveas(gcf,'image.png') then I have the same issue (and can't control the dpi).
On the other hand, if I use file > saveas the figure is exported properly.
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.

Accepted Answer

Brendan Hamm
Brendan Hamm on 11 Apr 2019
You can modify this by setting the EdgeColor to none.
set(Lgd,'EdgeColor','none');

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