axis label messed up when exporting eps

I have R2015 install on my linux machine. I have some plots with short math expressions as axis labels. They look fine in .fig files, but when exported to .eps, the labels are messed up by random white spaces in between. Any solution?

[Walter Roberson]

Potentially related to <https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/159732-2014b-axis-label-errors-when-printing-to-postscript >

Answer 1

[Adam Barber]

Hi Lian,

I tried the following on my Debian installation using MATLAB R2015a:

    plot(1:10, exp(1:10));
    xlabel('x')
    ylabel('y = e^x')
    print('testEPS.eps', '-dpsc2')

as well as using the LaTeX interpreter:

    xlabel('$x$', 'Interpreter', 'latex')
    ylabel('$y = e^x$', 'Interpreter', 'latex')

In both cases, the resulting EPS looked fine when I viewed it with "Document Viewer".

Can you post how you are setting up your figure, the FIG and EPS files, as well as the print command you are using to create the EPS file? There may be something that I am missing in my reproduction steps.

Thanks,

-Adam

[Lian]

Thanks for your help Adam. Unfortunately neither of the methods works. The first print method does not solve the white space problem, and in addition, the figure's aspect ratio is changed to default, which is not good to me. I usually manually alter the figure aspect ratio to make it look better.

The second method does not recognise some special symbols, for my case, \nabla. Without (...,'Interpreter', 'latex'), it can be recognised.

I usually produce the .fig file first and use 'save as' to convert to an eps file.

[Lian]

By the way, mine Linux is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS