Label shift when saving to .eps

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Andrew
Andrew on 28 Apr 2011
I recently created a figure using boxplot and found that the x-labels (group names) were moved when I saved the file. This occurred even when I explicitly defined the position of the labels:
a = findobj(gca,'String','A'); b = findobj(gca,'String','B'); c = findobj(gca,'String','C'); apos = get(a,'Position'); bpos = get(b,'Position'); cpos = get(c,'Position'); positionmatrix = [apos;bpos;cpos]; set(a,'FontSize',16,'FontName','Arial','FontWeight','b','position',[positionmatrix(1,1) -20 0]) set(b,'FontSize',16,'FontName','Arial','FontWeight','b','position',[positionmatrix(2,1) -20 0]) set(c,'FontSize',16,'FontName','Arial','FontWeight','b','position',[positionmatrix(3,1) -20 0])
The y position of -20 was chosen arbitrarily. After saving, the figure returns the label to the original y position (-13.5). Any help in clarifying this behavior would be appreciated.
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Patrick Kalita
Patrick Kalita on 29 Apr 2011
Can you provide more details on how you created the plot and how you export it? I just tried a very simple example, but didn't see the behavior you described:
load carsmall
boxplot(MPG, Origin)
print -depsc2 out
When I open the file out.eps using Evnice the position of the labels look fine.

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Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 28 Apr 2011
Try this:
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EDIT
Try setting the YTickMode to manual. Same with XTickMode.
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Andrew
Andrew on 29 Apr 2011
I tried using this package, but the problem still exists.

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