Geoshow in Matlab - facecolor changes when printing to tiff file

Question

My figure is a map of the USA. I would like all states' facecolor to be white unless specified:

ax = usamap('conus');
states = shaperead('usastatelo', 'UseGeoCoords', true,'Selector',{@(name) ~any(strcmp(name,{'Alaska','Hawaii'})), 'Name'});
faceColors = makesymbolspec('Polygon', {'Name','Washington','FaceColor','red'}, {'Name','Alabama','FaceColor','red'});
geoshow(ax, states, 'DisplayType', 'polygon', 'SymbolSpec', faceColors,'DefaultFaceColor','w','DefaultEdgeColor','black')
framem off; gridm off; mlabel off; plabel off

But when I print it using:

print -r600 -dtiff MyMap.tif

and open the figure, some of the states' facecolor on the east are black.

Why is this and how can I fix it? Thanks.

I cannot reconstruct your problem. Which version do you use? on what system? — EBH, Oct 29 '16 at 18:06
@EBH 2015b on a mac - I will update to 2016 and see if that helps — user2861089, Oct 30 '16 at 23:04

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '16 at 22:16

This bug does not exist in MATLAB 2016a. But I tried your code in MATLAB 2015a and I got the following .tif file as output (which is also described by you in the question):

There is a workaround to make this right. Before using print command, write the following line:

set(gcf, 'color', 'w', 'InvertHardCopy', 'off');

which gives the desired .tif output file as shown below:

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 06:08

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I haven't really figured out why but when I set the DefaultFaceColor to almost white, it works...

'DefaultFaceColor',[1.000 0.9792 0.9792]

answered May 19 '15 at 06:08

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Geoshow in Matlab - facecolor changes when printing to tiff file

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