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How can I create a border around the edge of a MATLAB figure window?

I'd like to put a border around a figure before saving my plots to .png for highlighting some plots that are most important. Is there any way to draw a rectangle outside of the axes plot region?

I'd like the border to extend around the entire plot even including the plot title and axes labels.

Solution

  • Found the solution. After saving a plot to an image, you can reload it into a figure and then draw a border on top of the image.

    img = imread('test_image.png');
fh = figure;
imshow(img,'border','tight')
hold on;
figurepos = get(gcf,'Position');
rectangle('Position',[4 4 figurepos(3)-7 figurepos(4)-7],'LineWidth',5,'EdgeColor','red')