How reduce/resize legend dimensions and marker size in R2016a

Hi,

I am using the 2016 version of MATLAB (R2016a). I have a figure with three lines which have different colours. I resize the figure window to fit one column but the legend box does not change with it. I have tried to use the position property to change the dimension of the legend but it didn't work. I also tried to reduce the font but this doesn't help when figure is saved in other formats of than fig. I have tried some exchange files (legendmarkeradjust and setLegMarkSize) but still no difference.

I will appreciate it if someone can help me out.

Answer 1

[David J. Mack]

Hey Oladunjoye!

This is a problem in Matlab for quite some time. Customizing legends is quite cumbersome as Matlab tries to make sure that the Legend stays readable. I have written a function to resize a legend ( resizeLegend ) and there is also another function to create more customizable legends ( legendflex ).

Greetings, David

[Oladunjoye Awoga]

Thanks David.

The functions are nice but I still have problem of the dimension of legend when I resize the figure window

[David J. Mack]

Unfortunately, resizing the legend and the figure is something which is far not solvable... For export, I'd recommend setting the figure size, then changing the legend and then export.