Subplots shrink when I save the figure

I have 12 subplots in a figure and when I am trying to save the figure as .png or .jpg with a command line then the subplots shrink but when I am using the save button on the figure window then it saves it fine. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

[Yifan Gu]

% The following example shows how to control the figure sizes and fontsizes of the figures saved by matlab. As a result, the saved figures, when opend else where, will look exactly like they appeared on your screen when first generated in matlab.

% Yifan Gu, Sep 2016, [e-mail]

figure_width = 8.4; %cm

figure_hight = 15; %cm

figure('NumberTitle','off','name', 'figure_size_control', 'units', 'centimeters', 'color','w', 'position', [0, 0, figure_width, figure_hight], 'PaperSize', [figure_width, figure_hight]); % this is the trick!

plot(1:10)

text(2.5,2,{'The figure size should',' be 8.4 by 15 cm'})

set(gca,'FontSize', 20); % 6 points for x-axis tickmark labels

xlabel('30 point label', 'fontsize', 30 ); % this must be after the above line!

set(gcf, 'PaperPositionMode', 'auto'); % this is the trick!

print -depsc figure_size_control % this is the trick!!