I am trying to make some simple line plots in Matlab with 1pt thickness lines (the default is 0.5pt I think). My eps/pdf output, created with export_fig, has two problems:
1) Look at the top of the y-axis. The tick mark and axis do not overlap properly. This also happens at the origin if there are no tick marks at zero (I mean the x and y axes don't fully overlap). If the axis lines were 0.5pt longer at each end, then there would be a nice corner.
2) The top of the plotted function is thinned near the topmost edge of the plot. This looks really bad to me. The does not happen if I have box('on') - the color functions just print over the top of the black boundary box. But I need the box gone for my final figures.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(Oh I can't post an image!? Please see my figure here: http://postimg.org/image/jq69yy747/ )
transfer_fig = figure;
plot(w_ppm,f1,'LineWidth',1); hold on;
plot(w_ppm,f2,'LineWidth',1,'Color','r','LineStyle','--');
xlabel('\omega_S (ppm)','FontSize',8,'FontName','Arial');
ylabel('Transfer (%)','FontSize',8,'FontName','Arial');
set(gcf,'Position',[50 500 300 300/1.618]) % Set figure format
set(gca,'YTick',[0 50 100],...
'XTick',[0 20 40 60],...
'TickDir','out',...
'LineWidth',1,...
'FontSize',8,...
'FontName','Arial',...
'Clipping','off',...
'Color',[1 1 1]);
axis([w_ppm(1) w_ppm(end) 0 100]);
box('off');
export_fig transfer -eps -pdf -png -transparent -nocrop
