MATLAB: Is it possible to add an InvertHardcopy property to axes and titles

Question

When printing a figure, the colors of the axes and title is not changed while the color of the figure is. If the original figure had white text on a black background, as is the case when the command

colordef black

is executed before opening a figure, the axes ticks, axes labels and the title do not appear on the export (white text on white background). Having a property for the axes similar to the InvertHardcopy property for a figure would prevent this issue from occuring.

Answer 1

In order to print an axes object properly on an inverted figure, you need to set the colors manually before printing. The following example shows how to do this:

% Invert color of axes, labels, and tick marks to white
set(gca,'XColor',[1 1 1],'YColor',[1 1 1],'ZColor',[1 1 1]);
%If there is a title, invert its color also (this will not fail when no title exists):
t=get(gca,'Title');
set(t,'Color',[1 1 1]);