Legend looks very weird

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Alex Y
Alex Y on 24 Jan 2020
Commented: Guillaume on 27 Jan 2020
Hello!
I'm having trouble plotting legend.
The items in the legend are overlaid on top of each other, and no matter what I try, they always look that way. Could anyone help me to make it look normal again, and tell me what is wrong with it?
Thank you so much in advance!!!
% now draw
figure;
plot(tmid,Cer,'ko-',tmid,Put,'ro-',tmid,Caud,'bo-');
xlabel('Time (min)'); ylabel('Radioactivity (Bq/mL)');
legend('Cerebellum','Putamen','Caudate');
ax = gca; ax.YAxis.Exponent = 0;
cd(paths.figures)
print('-dpdf','-bestfit',[ num2str(IDs(id)) num2str(d) '.pdf']);
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Guillaume
Guillaume on 24 Jan 2020
Can you replace the initial figure call with
figure('Renderer', 'painters');
and see if that fixes the issue?
Alex Y
Alex Y on 24 Jan 2020
The problem still persists... I also tried specifying OGL implementation.

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Answers (2)

Harsha Priya Daggubati
Harsha Priya Daggubati on 27 Jan 2020
Hi,
Can you share the data or atleast dimensions of the data you are trying to plot, since this issue is not reproducible at my end.

Yair Altman
Yair Altman on 27 Jan 2020
Run the following and check if you still see the same problem:
plot(1:3,1:3,'ko-', 1:3,2:4,'ro-', 1:3,3:5,'bo-');
legend('Cerebellum','Putamen','Caudate');
If you see the same problem it could mean that your legend function is corrupted. Run whos('legend','-all') and check if you have an unexpected version of the legend function on your Matlab path.
If you don't see the same problem, it might be a problem with your data in some strange way. In any case it will help narrow down the possibilities.
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Star Strider
Star Strider on 27 Jan 2020
A similar problem (and apparent diagnosis but not cure) has been posted in Markers and text in legend appear misaligned. Considering that the plot is with respect to brain nuclei, EEGLAB could be the culprit.
Guillaume
Guillaume on 27 Jan 2020
From the various questions we've seen over the years, it seems that EEGlab has a nasty habit of replacing essential matlab functions with their own, which ends up breaking matlab in all sort of interesting ways.

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