MATLAB: Make axis background transparent

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Is there an alpha parameter that sets the transparency of a plot's background axis color? I would like to be able to export a plot to Powerpoint and then overlay it semi-transparently onto other Powerpoint objects.

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For traditional axes, you can set the "Color" property to "none"

ax = axes("Color","none")

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MATLAB: Does the figure print with a white background and white axes, even though I have set the axes and figure “Color” property to something other than white

You can correct this by using the InvertHardCopy property for figure windows. The following information is found in the documentation for InvertHardCopy:

 This property changes hardcopy to black objects on white background and affects only printed output. Printing a figure or axes having a background color (Color property) that is not white results in poor contrast between graphics objects and the figure background and also consumes a lot of printer toner.

This property is set to "on" by default. If you want to print figures so that the figure or axes objects have the same background color as set in the Color property, please set the InvertHardcopy property to "off". For example:

figure
plot(1:10)
set(gca, 'color', 'g')
set(gcf, 'color', 'r')
set(gcf, 'InvertHardcopy', 'off')
print -djpeg myfig.jpg

MATLAB: Transparent background for figures

You can edit the eps file generated by print, and remove the line which creates the background rectangle, thus making the background transparent.

Or you can use the latest version of export_fig, which will do this for you when the -transparent option is specified, and will allow you to export to pdf as well.

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MATLAB: Transparent background for figures

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