Maintain image size on saving

Hello all,

I am having some frustrating problems with saving MATLAB figures and would be very grateful for help.

When I save a figure using the following code the dimensions of the image and its contents are not maintained upon saving:

saveas(gcf, name, 'tiffn'); saveas(gcf, name, 'eps'); saveas(gcf, name, 'jpg');

On the other hand

saveas(gcf,name, 'fig')

DOES maintain the dimensions.

However if I save the figure in these formats by clicking through the file menu of the image window then these dimensions ARE saved in the image files. I have tried changing the default figure size using

set(0,'defaultFigurePosition', [pos(1) pos(2) width, height]),

but although this works for creating the figures at the correct size it doesn't help with the problem above.

I would be grateful for any help with this. Having to click through to save each file individually is not fun!

Thanks

Marta

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

I did report this issue (saveas vs file->save) over a year ago to mathworks and they pointed me to this answer. No idea, if this undocumented function still works in 2014b.

Bottom line, use hgsave

[ML]

The method in the linked answer

hgexport(gcf, 'figure1.jpg', hgexport('factorystyle'), 'Format', 'jpeg')

works thank you! hgsave() only saves to a .fig file though.

[Image Analyst]

I believe export_fig() lets you specify an output size. You could specify the size of the figure in pixels and save it as a PNG image file.

[Asiya Al-Busaidi]

The hgexport() function is very useful. Thank you for sharing :)

[Muhamad Luqman Mohd Nasir]

how can i save multiple pic at once after i do image segmentation with the same image size

[Image Analyst]

@Muhamad Luqman Mohd Nasir If you don't want to save them sequentially with imwrite() then I think you'd have to save them all "at once" using save():

save('mutiple pictures.mat', 'image1', 'image2', 'image3');

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

The dimensions (size, rows and columns) of the image has nothing to do with it. The image is shrunk of magnified to fit onto the figure. So if your screen was 1600 by 1920 and your image was 3000 by 4000, and your figure was full screen, then it would shrink down the image to something less than 1600 by 1920 (because there's some gray blank padding around the axes/image on the figure). But doing saveas() should save the figure with the number of pixels that the figure is on your screen I would think. Again, forget about what size the image is - that doesn't count at all because it scales that to fit onto your figure.

[ML]

Thanks for your fast reply. My problem is that saveas() is behaving differently to when I select file->save on the figure window. file->save does exactly what you say and saves the figure with the same number of pixels as displayed on the screen, but when I use saveas() it saves to a different number of pixels and adjusts the linewidths and fonts automatically to that new figure size meaning that I cannot just resize the image for including in documents as lines and fonts are then the wrong size. I don't understand why these two methods of saving should work differently and would rather be using saveas().

[ML]

Sorry I did't pose the original question very accurately!

[Image Analyst]

OK, so you don't really mean an image like an image you've displayed on your figure. You're talking about the figure itself, like a screenshot.

[ML]

Yep exactly. Guillaume below has linked to a solution that I will try. Thanks for your help.