Legend box impinges on legend text

I am having issues with the text inside a legend impinging on the box containing it when I print it to png. It does not look like that when it exists as a figure, only when I save it to file. It does not impinge on the legend box when the font is not changed. I would like to change the font to match my thesis. The legend text impinges on the box no matter how small I set the text to be. Is there any way to correct this?

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

Have you tried with export_fig ?

[Braden]

I downloaded export_fig after you suggested it. It has the same issues that Matlab does. This is the code I have to build the plot - perhaps I am changing the font in the wrong order or something?

load scatter_vars2

clf

% plot standard deviation

hStD = scatter(Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS,PwOutStDv,'<');

hold on

% plot min val

hPowMin = scatter(Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS,PwOutMinVal,'x');

% create filter

% A = Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS>=3.1;

B = and(Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS>=7, PwOutMaxVal<=1);

C = ~B;

% D = and(A==1,C==1);

% plot maximum power output

hPowMax = scatter(Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS(C),PwOutMaxVal(C));

% filter second set of data

B = and(Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS>=7, PwOut<=1);

C = ~B;

% plot average power output

hPow = scatter(Synthesized387mU2U3EachTS(C),PwOut(C),'+');

axis([0 20 -1 6]);

set(gca, ...

'Box' , 'off' , ...

'TickDir' , 'out' , ...

'TickLength' , [.02 .02] , ...

'XMinorTick' , 'on' , ...

'YMinorTick' , 'on' , ...

'YGrid' , 'on' , ...

'XColor' , [.3 .3 .3], ...

'XTick' , 0:1:20 , ...

'YColor' , [.3 .3 .3], ...

'YTick' , -1:0.5:6, ...

'LineWidth' , 1 );

hXLabel = xlabel('Hub Height Wind Speed (m/s)','FontName','Cambria');

hYLabel = ylabel('Measured Power (kW)','FontName','Cambria');

hLegend = legend([hStD, hPowMin, hPowMax, hPow],...

'Std. Dev ',...

'Minimum ',...

'Maximum ',...

'Average ',...

'location', 'NorthWest');

set([hLegend, gca] , ...

'FontSize' , 8 );

set([hXLabel, hYLabel],'FontName','Cambria');

set( gca , ...

'FontName' , 'Cambria' );

set(gcf, 'PaperPositionMode', 'auto');

%print the figure to file

print -dpng -r200 test.png