When I choose a huge colorbar fontsize, why is the colorbar text cropped by the MATLAB figure window in MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b) ?

When I choose a huge colorbar fontsize in MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b) like in the following example:

figure;

Y_tick = 12.34;

caxis([0.0 Y_tick]); 

colorbar1 = colorbar(...

    'EastOutside',...

    'Box','on',...  

    'FontSize',30,...

    'TickDir','out',...

    'XLim',[-0.5 1.5],... 

    'YTick',[0 Y_tick]);

the text of the colorbar is not displayed completely in the figure window.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

To work around this issue resize the axes using GET and SET functions:

decrease_by = 0.1

axpos = get(gca,'position');

axpos(3) = axpos(3) - decrease_by;

set(gca,'position',axpos);

Alternatively, the decrease of axes in y-direction (defined in the above example by variable 'decrease_by') could be chosen dynamic - according to the needed additional space referring to the new font size of the colorbar.