Print option does not save the figure correctly

Dear all, I use a simple code line

    print -depsc -tiff -r300 picture

to print the current figure as picture.eps. But the result is not a smooth picure, rather a sparse line picture wiht a lot of white space in between; thus it is useless (the same with jpeg). Where might be the mistake? Thanks for your advice!

Answer 1

[Shashank Prasanna]

What is the version of MATLAB you are using?

Can you post the image? or give some reproduction code?

[Peter]

Matlab 7.6.

Ho can I post an image?

[Shashank Prasanna]

If you post it online, you can share the link here so we can see.

Also check if this bug report is related to the issue you are facing:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/299623

You may need to log into your mathworks account to check the bugreport.

[Peter]

Here is a link to the picture;

http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=dca89d-1373241173.jpg

Actually, it is a surf plot

surf(tempT,tempF(tempFstart:tempFstop),(tempxP), 'FaceColor','interp','EdgeColor','none'); % pcolor als test
        view(0,90);
        axis tight;
        set(gca, 'GridLineStyle','none','box','off');
        set(gca,'ylim',[5 50], 'yticklabel',[]);

and it is displayed correctly as figure. But when I print it, the blue background is gone and instead of a steady picture I get the lined appearence (the same when I try to save it from the figure menu).

[Shashank Prasanna]

can you check the renderer you are using?

>> get(gcf,'Renderer')

Change it to painters or zbuffers if it is opengl

>> set(gcf,'Renderer','painters')

Try saving now, does that help?

[Peter]

Thanks a lot - 'painters' works well... (at least for the jpeg or tiff version)

[Ali Kandil]

Great

It worked for me

Thanks alot