Figures stretch when saved as image

I have the following figure (.fig file, shown on the left), which I want to save as an image file type. When I save it as a jpeg, the image is stretched (shown on the right). I've tried saving it as a pdf, eps, jpeg, and png, and they all stretch. With a previous version of Matlab, the image file would have the same dimensions as the .fig file. How can I fix this? I'm using Matlab 2017a.

Edit: I didn't have this problem in a previous version (2015, I believe) of Matlab.

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html?rntext=print&startrelease=R2015a&endrelease=R2017b&groupby=release&sortby=descending&searchHighlight=print

[Jon Terry]

Thanks Walter. I tried changing the settings referenced in the link, but it didn't fix the problem. To clarify, I generate a figure and then go through File > Save As to save the image files.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

You might try the export_fig submission, which will let you export images faithfully to the appearance of the figure on the screen.

[Jon Terry]

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Although it seems strange to me that I'd need to use a third-party tool to be able to do what Matlab should do on it's own, and already did with a previous version.

[Matt J]

I can't account for your experience with previous versions. The reason for the existence of export_fig is that the image conversion has always been unreliable.