Visualization of the legend outside of the image

Hi,

I am using the following code to visualize the image with legend:

currImg = imread(imagePath);
fig = figure('Visible', 'off');
imshow(currImg);
hold all;
legendHandler = legend(textLegend(:), 'Location', 'BestOutside');
set(legendHandler,'FontSize',8);
hold off;

print(fig, '-djpeg', outfilepath);

Unfortunately, in some cases I get a legend that doesn't fit in the figure (see the attached image). How can I fix it?

[update] It seems the real culprit is

print(fig, '-djpeg', outfilepath);

as imshow shows the image correctly.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Have you tried other location options, such as 'Best'?

[Mateusz]

I tried northeastoutside but it doesn't work neither. So here actually I do have two constraints:

1. it should be general enough as I process thousands of images

2. it should be outside of the main frame as I don't want to occlude any content of the image with the legend

It also seems the real culprit is

print(fig, '-djpeg', outfilepath);

as imshow shows the image correctly.

[Image Analyst]

Instead of print, try export_fig: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23629-exportfig

[Mateusz]

I use ghexport and it seems it works now.

hgexport(fig, outfilepath, hgexport('factorystyle'), 'Format', 'jpeg');

[Mateusz]

Ok, it seems export_fig works better, thanks a lot!