Unwanted whitespace / gap in figure text before symbols and subscripts in Matlab 2015a for pdf and eps figures

Hi all,

I'm getting extra unwanted space before a special character / symbol / subscript in my labels. This is pretty much the same problem in the question here: http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/159732-2014b-axis-label-errors-when-printing-to-postscript. Note I'm running Matlab on Linux.

Try the following, noting the gap between the ( and the degree sign in the pdf and eps outputs

figure;
plot(0:0.01:2*pi,sin(0:0.01:2*pi));
yl = ylabel('Angle (\circ)');
print(gcf,'test_pdf','-dpdf');
print(gcf,'test_print','-depsc');
export_fig(gcf,'test_export','-png');
export_fig(gcf,'test_export','-pdf');

This issue doesn't exist in my Matlab version 2013. I don't want to use the 'Latex' interpreter as this changes all the fonts to the default Latex font. This issue does not exist for bitmap outputs such as png. Finally, it is worth noting that our old friend export_fig does not solve this issue.

Any ideas of a fix for this? Regards, Dom

[Debarati Banerjee]

You may try 'opengl' as the Renderer. You can refer to this bugreport which mentions a similar issue.

[Steve]

Using opengl does not fix the problem.

Answer 1

[Sherman Ip]

This is not a fix but rather a way around it as I have this problem with squares

Use the unicode U+00B0 °