Blank white lines in eps exported surf plots.

I exported a surf plot in eps format using the below code.

      s = figure(10); 
      surfc(double(smooth_img));
      saveas(figure(10), 'surf.eps','epsc2');

I'm not able to remove the blank white lines in the image (i.e. at y = 250 and x = 100). Does anybody have any solution?

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

Whenever weird things happen in figures, my first line of defense is trying different renderers. Try all three:

set(gcf,'renderer','painters') 
saveas(figure(10), 'surf.eps','epsc2');

Did that work? If no, try this:

set(gcf,'renderer','opengl') 
saveas(figure(10), 'surf.eps','epsc2');

Still didn't work? Try this:

set(gcf,'renderer','zbuffer') 
saveas(figure(10), 'surf.eps','epsc2');

Also, I have never seen saveas outperform export_fig. Getting ghostscript working with export_fig is a ~5 minute headache that will result in years of nicer graphics.

[Chad Greene]

This is such a common issue I made a function out of it. Just type rend to toggle renderers.