MATLAB: Border-less tight subplot: figure size and save

Question

hey!

I am using the amazing Border-less tight subplot (auto-refresh) by Eduard Reitmann.

I am trying to resize the figure and save it as a .png. Sadly, the command 'set(gcf,'position',[10,10,300,100])' is misbehaving (First opens figure in full screen, than makes it way to small, than moves the figure OFF screen).

Does somebody has experience with this issue? Any other recommendations to do border-ess subplots? I am afraid to go through the list and running into the same isse again.

Executable example code below.

Thanks everybody!!

%create data 
TWNovle = rand([1 672])
TWRoldal = rand([1 672])
TWSuldal = rand([1 672])
SWNovle = rand([1 672])
SWRoldal = rand([1 672])
SWSuldal = rand([1 672])
PWNovle = rand([1 672])
PWRoldal = rand([1 672])
PWSuldal = rand([1 672])
xNames = ["C1", "C2", "C3", "C4"];
xTimes = [0:4]
color1 = [.7 .7 .7]
color2 = 'r'
color3 = 'black'
figure('name','subplot_er','Visible','off');
subplot_er(1,3,1);
plot(TWNovle, 'Color',color1); hold on; plot(TWSuldal, 'Color', color2);plot(TWRoldal, 'Color',color3); 
xticks([xTimes * 168]); xticklabels(xNames);title('TW'); hold off;
subplot_er(1,3,2);
plot(PWNovle,'Color', color1); hold on; plot(PWSuldal, 'Color',color2);plot(PWRoldal, 'Color',color3); 
xticks([xTimes* 168]); xticklabels(xNames);title('PW'); hold off;
subplot_er(1,3,3); 
plot(SWNovle, 'Color',color1); hold on; plot(SWSuldal, 'Color',color2);plot(SWRoldal, 'Color',color3); 
xticks([xTimes* 168]); xticklabels(xNames);title('SW'); hold off;
%set(gcf,'position',[10,10,300,100])
set(gcf,'Visible','on')
%save
outputFileName = sprintf('ZZ_result_%s.png', datestr(now,'mmddyy_HHMMSS'));
saveas(gcf,outputFileName)

Answer 1

subplot_er changes the figure units from pixels to normalized. You need to convert it back to pixels to set the position like that

set(gcf,'Unit','pixels')
set(gcf,'position',[10,10,800,300]) % <--- 800, 300 indicate the width and height of figure window
set(gcf,'Visible','on')