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Printing a Centered Figure
This example sets the size of a figure to 5.5-by-3 inches and centers it on the paper.
Using the Graphical User Interface
- Select Page Setup from the figure window's File menu, and select the Size and Position tab.
- Make sure Use manual size and position is selected.
- Enter
5.5
in the Width field and 3
in the Height field.
- Make sure that Units field is set to
inches
.
- Click Center.
- Click OK.
- Open the Print dialog box and print the figure.
Using MATLAB Commands
- Start by setting
PaperUnits
to inches
.
- Use
PaperSize
to return the size of the current paper.
- Initialize variables to the desired width and height of the figure.
- Calculate a left margin that centers the figure horizontally on the paper. Use the first element of
papersize
(width of paper) for the calculation.
- Calculate a bottom margin that centers the figure vertically on the paper. Use the second element of
papersize
(height of paper) for the calculation.
- Set the figure size and print.
myfiguresize = [left, bottom, width, height];
set(gcf, 'PaperPosition', myfiguresize);
print
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