How do you specify properties of figures created in Matlab to make sure that they are appropriately sized for publication? As a student, I wasted weeks resizing things in Canvas b/c I didn't know any better, but here's my current recipe with added mods from @ChangLiuMaggie.
Decide if the figure you are making will be the width of a single column, 1.5 columns, or 2 columns if published in a journal.
Set the figure width in Matlab by changing the Units property of the figure to "centimeters" and then changing the third element of the 'Position' property to the appropriate width (9 cm for single column width, 12 cm for 1.5 column width, or 18 cm for two column width).
Set the figure Color to 'white' and Render to 'Painters'
Set the font sizes to 10 for the tick labels and 12 for the axis labels (and title if you have one). Font sizes aren't a hard and fast rule as they will depend on the number of panels in your figure. You may also need to make the lines thicker.
Save three versions of the figure (fig, pdf, and tiff/png/jpg).
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