Creating subplot from saved semilog plots

If I've saved plots that were generated by semilogy as files, how can I place them into a figure with subplots? Note that

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101806-how-can-i-insert-my-matlab-figure-fig-files-into-multiple-subplots

does not work for figures generated by semilogy, though I do not really understand why, even after trying to read up on handle graphics.

Answer 1

[Bruno Pop-Stefanov]

This is probably because the axes scale is linear by default.

Change the 'YScale' property from 'linear' to 'log' as follows:

This is the code from How can I insert my MATLAB figure (.fig) files into multiple subplots?:

    h1 = openfig('test1.fig','reuse'); % open figure
    ax1 = gca; % get handle to axes of figure
    h2 = openfig('test2.fig','reuse');
    ax2 = gca;
    % test1.fig and test2.fig are the names of the figure files which you would
    % like to copy into multiple subplots
    h3 = figure; %create new figure
    s1 = subplot(2,1,1); %create and get handle to the subplot axes
    s2 = subplot(2,1,2);
    fig1 = get(ax1,'children'); %get handle to all the children in the figure
    fig2 = get(ax2,'children');
    copyobj(fig1,s1); %copy children to new parent axes i.e. the subplot axes
    copyobj(fig2,s2);

Add the following:

    set(s1, 'YScale','log')
    set(s2, 'YScale','log')

[Stephen Shank]

Worked like a charm... so simple! Thanks very much!