Axis exponent causing all text in the figure to render as curves instead of text in svg

I'm using the saveas function to export a figure as an svg file. I have set the renderer to be painters but occasionally the output of text is rendered as curves in the svg file.

Everything works fine except when using greek letters in axis labels (which I have avoided) or when the axis label contains exponents automatically by MATLAB. If I delete the " x 10^5 " part manually in the figure window or in the code I include ax = gca; ax.YAxis.Exponent = 0, then the saveas works fine exporting an svg file with text rendered as text. However, this is still a hassle and I'm hoping it can be fixed.

I'm using R2024a.

Answer 1

[Divyanshu]

Hi bader,

I am not sure of the root cause of the issue that why greek letters are not exported successfully to an svg file using 'saveas'.

A possible workaround can be to use either 'exportgraphics' or 'print' function to export the figure as svg file.

You can refer the following documentation for further details:

• exportgraphics - https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/exportgraphics.html
• print - https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/print.html

Hope it helps!

[bader]

neither "exportgraphics" nor "print" offer the ability to save the figure in svg format.