Export a figure with subplots keeping the background color of the subplots

Hi

I have the following problem: I make figures with subplots where the subplots have a non-white background color. However when I want to export these figures to eps the background of the subplots becomes white. I know that the command set(gcf, 'InvertHardCopy', 'off'); exists. However this only preserves the color (grey) of the area surrounding the subplots but not actually the background of the subplots. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?

Cheers, Ronny

Answer 1

[Jan]

Have you tried http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23629-export-fig already?

[Ronny]

Hi

No I haven't. It appears to work perfectly except for the fact that my problem is also not solved by this function (background of subplots still changes to white).

[Jan]

What a pitty. And you did set the 'InvertHardCopy' to 'off' also? How do you export the figures? Which Matlab and OS version do you use?

[Ronny]

Were exactly do you think I would have to turn it off? I use Matlab2016b on OpenSuse (Linux)

[Ronny]

Normally I export them manually by clicking on save as in the figure window.

[Jan]

You can turn off the InvertHardcopy property during the creation of the figure already:

FigH = figure('InvertHardcopy', 'off')

In addition there is a field in the preferences dialog:

Preferences->Figure Copy Template->Copy Options->

• Use figure color
• Force white background
• Transparent background

[Ronny]

About your first suggestion: This is what I tried first. However this only preserves the background color of the figure (containing the subplots) but not the one of the subplots. For the second one I can't find the Copy options unfortunately. Maybe this changed lately.

I attached a picture to make my problem more clear.

[Dino Dvorak]

Older post but anyway - in Export Setup - Rendering - uncheck the box Custom color (default setting: w)