MATLAB colorbar labels cut off in printing with large images

Question

I'm using false-color visualizations for some HDR images in MATLAB, but with large images I find that the colorbar labels get cut off.

In the MWE below, colorbar labels (and I think some of the colorbar too) have been cut off when I print to PDF for inclusion in LaTeX. I've uploaded the output I'm getting here.

Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks.

MATLAB Code:

h=2304; w=3072;
y=(1:1:2304)';
x=1:1:3072;
z=y*x;

figure();
imshow(z,[]);
colormap(jet);
colorbar;

print(gcf, 'test.pdf', '-dpdf');

Answer 1

Worked fine on 2008b here, but the bounding box is wrong for what people normally expect on an embeddable graph. MATLAB has always treated PDF export as a special case of printing to a regular printer, when it should be analogous to making an EPS.

What I normally do for LaTeX is create an EPS file, and then convert it to PDF. I wrote a pdfprint.m file some time back to automate that. It should work on any Windows or UNIX-like system with MATLAB and epstopdf (standard with LaTeX). You can download it here.

Also, the pdflatex in TeX Live 2010 can automatically convert EPS graphics to PDF when needed.