plotting module
def plotGraph(X,Y): fignum = random.randint(0,sys.maxint) plt.figure(fignum) ### Plotting arrangements ### return fignummain module
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
### tempDLStats, tempDLlabels are the argument
plot1 = plotGraph(tempDLstats, tempDLlabels)
plot2 = plotGraph(tempDLstats_1, tempDLlabels_1)
plot3 = plotGraph(tempDLstats_2, tempDLlabels_2)
plt.show()I want to save all the graphs plot1, plot2, plot3 to a single PDF file. Is there any way to achieve it? I can't include the plotGraph function in the main module.
There's a function named pyplot.savefig but that seems to work only with a single figure. Is there any other way to accomplish it?
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If someone ends up here from google, looking to convert a single figure to a .pdf (that was what I was looking for):
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
f = plt.figure()
plt.plot(range(10), range(10), "o")
plt.show()
f.savefig("foo.pdf", bbox_inches='tight')For multiple plots in a single pdf file you can use PdfPages
In the plotGraph function you should return the figure and than call savefig of the figure object.
------ plotting module ------
def plotGraph(X,Y): fig = plt.figure() ### Plotting arrangements ### return fig------ plotting module ------
----- mainModule ----
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
plot1 = plotGraph(tempDLstats, tempDLlabels)
plot2 = plotGraph(tempDLstats_1, tempDLlabels_1)
plot3 = plotGraph(tempDLstats_2, tempDLlabels_2)
pp = PdfPages('foo.pdf')
pp.savefig(plot1)
pp.savefig(plot2)
pp.savefig(plot3)
pp.close()import datetime
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Create the PdfPages object to which we will save the pages:
# The with statement makes sure that the PdfPages object is closed properly at
# the end of the block, even if an Exception occurs.
with PdfPages('multipage_pdf.pdf') as pdf: plt.figure(figsize=(3, 3)) plt.plot(range(7), [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2], 'r-o') plt.title('Page One') pdf.savefig() # saves the current figure into a pdf page plt.close() plt.rc('text', usetex=True) plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6)) x = np.arange(0, 5, 0.1) plt.plot(x, np.sin(x), 'b-') plt.title('Page Two') pdf.savefig() plt.close() plt.rc('text', usetex=False) fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4, 5)) plt.plot(x, x*x, 'ko') plt.title('Page Three') pdf.savefig(fig) # or you can pass a Figure object to pdf.savefig plt.close() # We can also set the file's metadata via the PdfPages object: d = pdf.infodict() d['Title'] = 'Multipage PDF Example' d['Author'] = u'Jouni K. Sepp\xe4nen' d['Subject'] = 'How to create a multipage pdf file and set its metadata' d['Keywords'] = 'PdfPages multipage keywords author title subject' d['CreationDate'] = datetime.datetime(2009, 11, 13) d['ModDate'] = datetime.datetime.today()Never mind got the way to do it.
def plotGraph(X,Y): fignum = random.randint(0,sys.maxint) fig = plt.figure(fignum) ### Plotting arrangements ### return fig------ plotting module ------
----- mainModule ----
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ### tempDLStats, tempDLlabels are the argument plot1 = plotGraph(tempDLstats, tempDLlabels) plot2 = plotGraph(tempDLstats_1, tempDLlabels_1) plot3 = plotGraph(tempDLstats_2, tempDLlabels_2) plt.show() plot1.savefig('plot1.png') plot2.savefig('plot2.png') plot3.savefig('plot3.png')----- mainModule -----
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