text borders in a plot

Is there anyway to plot text, and have it such that the text is, say, white, but it has a black border around itself (ie the black is the letters, not a box!)

what I tried was first printing the text in black, in size 10.4, and then overlaid white, in size 10, but it doesn't come out right.

in case anyone is still at a loss, I want something like this:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/1vW6R.png

[Adam Danz]

Himanshu Saxena's answer moved here as a comment

I am also looking for the solution to the raised question.

Answer 1

[Jan]

No this is not possible in Matlab.

You could write the text to an empty axes, capture the screen area, use the image processing toolbox to detect the edges, apply a method to grow the regions, capture the screen again, and post a cropped image instead of the text. Does not sound convenient.

[Simon]

nope, its not. The reason I want this is to make the text visable, without disturbing the background image. Thanks.

[Jan]

What about using a tight border in the background color of the axes? Or an annotation, which is places outside the graphics with only an arrow to the concerned location?

Answer 2

[Fabricio Castro]

You can plot a bold text with a white font color, and plot the same but unbold black text over the early one. I think this is the only way to accomplish what you looking for.

[Jan]

In bold face the width of the characters is increased, such that it is unlikely, that the characters will match.

[Adam Danz]

That's what this answer demonstrates but as Jan said, there are restrictions. Using fixed width font helps.