MATLAB: Axis tick labels changed upon export to EPS

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Hi all,
Duplicate post from the discussion forum here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.matlab/browse_thread/thread/9ab0c6353416aa0f
because I think it's a reasonable question!
I am using Matlab R2010b.
I have manually changed the axis tick labels for some of my plots and am experiencing some weird behaviour.
I have saved the figures (.fig) and the axis tick marks are correct. I can export to PNG or PDF with no problems. When I export to EPS however the axis tick marks have been altered and are completely incorrect.
Fig file is here if you want to play with it:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8Z4vWs_qorPODFhNjBlODYtODc0Mi00MWJkLTgzNjctNTY3MWRjZThmMTc5&hl=en_GB
Any ideas? Surely a bug if it is specific to EPS export?!
Thanks for any suggestions,
Gabriel

Best Answer

Fixed:
The problem with specifying your own axis tick labels is that the property (for the y-axis here) YTickLabelMode is set to manual but the property YTickMode remains at auto.
When exporting to EPS, for some very odd reason the figure must be slightly rescaled (which is not the case/the rescaling is different when choosing PDF or PNG). The tick positions are automatically reassigned, but the labels remain those specified manually. Result: unexpected and rubbish figures!
Setting the axis property YTickMode to manual fixes this.
Of course this is only a problem if the rescaling step causes the tick positions to change, so Oliver Woodford probably didn't observe this.
I still think this is buggy behaviour - why should one type of export cause figure resizing when another doesn't?
Thanks for your suggestions everybody!
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