I want to export a figure but with 50% smaller Width and height

Hello all,

I saved my figure using the following code

set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'OuterPosition', [0, 0.04, 1, 0.96]); % Enlarge figure to full screen.
export_fig('F:\Farvardin 99 Codes\Subbasins\precipitation\figures\wintersubbasin1', '-dpng','-transparent', '-r900');

But the generated photo is really big and when I paste it to A4 paper in Microsoft office word I saw a small font size and LineWidth

In addition, I want to have 2 of this figure beside each other in a row; So I want to save it with smaller Width and height, like this:

I want to have the figure still in high quality. Please help me with this issue.

Really thank you

Answer 1

[Johannes Hougaard]

Hi Behzad,

I think that rather than using the

set(gcf,'Units','Normalized','OuterPosition', [0, 0.04, 1, 0.96])

you should use the PaperUnits and PaperPosition properties. Keeping the -r900 option will retain the high resolution of the picture.

figure; plot(x,y);
xlabel('x-axis label');
ylabel('y-axis label');
legend('legend1','legend2','legend3','legend4');
set(gcf,'PaperOrientation','landscape');
set(gcf,'PaperUnits','normalized')
set(gcf,'PaperPosition',[0 0 1 1]); % change this to e.g. [0 0 0.5 0.5] or [0 0 0.25 0.5] to get the desired outputs
print(gcf,filename,'-dpng','-r900');
set(gcf,'WindowState','maximize') % if you still wish to maximize your window this is preferred in R2020a

[BN]

Thank you so much