Matlab doesn't save the new dimension of the plot - matlab

Question

I'm trying to save a figure with a no-default dimension, but I always obtain the default size plot.
figure
for i=1:6
for j=1:4
subplot(6,4,j+(i-1)*4)
[...]
end
end
w=600; h=800;
set(gcf,'Position',[30 60 w h]);
set(gcf, 'PaperUnits', 'centimeters');
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','manual')
print('test','-depsc');
It is mainly a 6-by-4 subplot. I looked for a solution on internet, I found many comments about Position, PaperUnits, PaperPositionMode, but none has worked so far. The only solution that works is when I export as .fig.
What I actually realized, is that after the set(gcf,'Position',[30 60 w h]) the window dimension of the plot is correct, but the subplot are squeezed like when the dimension is the default. If I just insert a pause and manually resize the window (even by almost nothing), the subplots expand nicely within the larger window. But still, with the print command the result is not the desired one.
I tried also with saveas and I got the same result.
Ah, if I manually save the figure, it works perfectly, but, of course, I need to automatize the process!
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Although i can't reproduce this behaviour as MATLAB 2014b automatically handles axes resizing, i'll still post an answer, that may need some adjustments.
Basically, what you need to do is :
% Get a handle to your figure object
Myfig=gcf;
% Get all of your figure Children - Warning : if you have a global
% legend in your figure, it will belong to your figure Children and you
% ll have to ignore it
AllChildren=get(Myfig,'Children');
MyAxes=findobj(AllChildren,'type','axes');
% Now you have your axes objects, whose Position attributes should be in
% normalized units. What you need to do now is to store these positions
% before changing the size of your figure, to reapply them after
% resizing (the beauty of normalized positions).
Positions=zeros(size(MyAxes,1),4);
for ii=1:size(MyAxes,1)
Positions(ii,:)=get(MyAxes(ii),'Position');
end
% Resize your figure
w=600;
h=800;
set(gcf,'Position',[30 60 w h]);
% Reuse the positions you stored to resize your subplots
for ii=1:size(MyAxes,1)
set(MyAxes(ii),'Position',Positions(ii,:));
end
This should do the trick.