Saving a .fig file as a .png

I'm trying to save .fig files as .png in order to include them in a Latex document. The plots look great in .fig format, but when I save them as .png files, the font sizes that I specified don't stick and the font sizes revert to something much smaller than I want. Is there a way to get around this. I would use the .fig files, but Latex doesn't seem to like this format. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

[Jan]

You forgot to mention how you create the PNG file. With a screenshot the output equals the display on the screen exactly:

F = getframe(gcf);
imwrite(F.cdata, 'YouFile.png')

[Edward Steen]

Here is my code creating the .fig file:

figure(1) subplot(2,1,1) x2=aa(:,1); y2=aa(:,2); z2=aa(:,3); plot(x2,y2)

dx=0.1; dy=0.1; x_edge=floor(min(x2)):dx:ceil(max(x2)) y_edge=floor(min(y2)):dy:ceil(max(y2))

[X2,Y2]=meshgrid(x_edge,y_edge); Z2=griddata(x2,y2,z2,X2,Y2); contourf(X2,Y2,Z2,30) %or contourf with 50 lines title('Stability Contours of \lambda_1','fontsize',16) xlabel('\alpha_3','fontsize',18) ylabel('\alpha_4','fontsize',18) colorbar

Then what??

Thanks, and I appreciate the help.

[Jan]

The code to create the figure does not matter. The code I've posted creates a screen copy of every figure. Did you try to run it?

Using gcf is less safe than defining the figure handle explicitely:

   FigH = figure;
   ...  your code
   drawnow;
   F = getframe(FigH);
   imwrite(F.cdata, 'YouFile.png')

gcf can reply an unexpected figure, if the user clicks on another figure during the code runs.