How do I make a full page figure publish?

I'm trying to get a graph to publish on a full page by itself, but I can't figure out how do it. Whenever I try increasing the figure size it stops at the top edge of my screen, and then publishes what's on my screen, not what I coded.

I want the graph that comes from this to take up its own entire publication page in pdf form.

x=[.062 .122 .182 .241 .303 .364 .425 .484 .546 .607 .668 .730];
F=[0.49 0.98 1.47 1.96 2.45 2.94 3.43 3.92 4.41 4.90 5.39 5.88];
plot(x,F,'b.')
hold on

coefs=polyfit(x,F,1);

x_vec=0:.001:.8;
F_vec=coefs(1)*x_vec+coefs(2);

plot(x_vec,F_vec,'r')
grid on
title('Force of Weight vs Spring Stretch')
xlabel('Spring Stretch (m)')
ylabel('Force of Weight (N)')
legend('Actual Data','Line of best fit','Location','Southeast')

text(.55, .875, 'F = 8.0696 * X + 0.0015')
hold off

fig=gcf;
fig.Position=[400 35 625 600];

ax=gca;
ax.XTick=[0:.05:.8];
ax.YTick=[0:.25:7];

[madhan ravi]

See if the below link is helpful: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/437512-my-script-is-not-publishing-figures-even-though-i-have-used-snapnow#comment_655193

Answer 1

[Rahul]

Hi @Isaac Gruver,

I understand that you are trying get a full page graph as a 'pdf' file from the code shared by you. Your code currently only mentions the code for the 'plot' and adjusting the size and position of the 'figure'.

You can follow the following steps to achieve the desired result:

• Adjust the 'figure' properties to achieve a full page graph using 'set' function.

% Adjust figure properties for full-page PDF
fig = gcf;
set(fig, 'PaperPositionMode', 'auto');
set(fig, 'PaperUnits', 'inches');
set(fig, 'PaperSize', [8.27, 11.69]); % A4 size
set(fig, 'PaperPosition', [0, 0, 8.27, 11.69]); % Full page

• Using the 'print' function to save the figure as a 'pdf' file

% Save the figure as a PDF
print(fig, 'full_page_graph.pdf', '-dpdf', '-fillpage');

You can refer to the following documentations to know more about these functions:

'set': https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/matlab/ref/set.html?searchHighlight=set&s_tid=doc_srchtitle

'print': https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/matlab/ref/print.html?searchHighlight=print&s_tid=doc_srchtitle

Hope this helps! Thanks.