How to export figures to files from IPython Notebook
Question:
I use the IPython Notebook with the --pylab inline
option, since I don’t want plots to show up in a different window. Now I’d like to save the plots I see in the notebook to PDF or PNG files.
Some code examples use
import matplotlib as plt
plt.savefig("figure.png") # save as png
but this does not seem to work in inline mode.
Of course I could simply save the PNG that is generated out of the browser, but I’d like to do this with a line of Python. I am also interested in PDF export.
Answers:
try this (note that the files get saved to the default notebook folder):
plot(range(80))
xlabel('foo')
ylabel('bar')
legend(['myline'])
axis([0, 80, 0, 120])
savefig('sample.pdf')
if you want png
just change it to 'sample.png'
.
Note that the savefig()
call should be in the same notebook cell as the plotting commands.
I use the IPython Notebook with the --pylab inline
option, since I don’t want plots to show up in a different window. Now I’d like to save the plots I see in the notebook to PDF or PNG files.
Some code examples use
import matplotlib as plt
plt.savefig("figure.png") # save as png
but this does not seem to work in inline mode.
Of course I could simply save the PNG that is generated out of the browser, but I’d like to do this with a line of Python. I am also interested in PDF export.
try this (note that the files get saved to the default notebook folder):
plot(range(80))
xlabel('foo')
ylabel('bar')
legend(['myline'])
axis([0, 80, 0, 120])
savefig('sample.pdf')
if you want png
just change it to 'sample.png'
.
Note that the savefig()
call should be in the same notebook cell as the plotting commands.