Save multiple plots to pdf

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Matthias_Ottlinger | 2020-08-07 14:51:08 UTC | #1

Hello Guys,

i am a very beginner. i coded with the matplotlib example out of the book a little programm, where after button click six plots are shown (with matplotlib). i integrated a save button and want to save all six plots to a pdf, but i am stuck. the save button works fine, filePath works fine, but when it should save the file errors occur. outside of pyqt5 i know how to deal with this problem (PdfPages, savefig()...) Maybe some of you can give me an example, so i can add it to my little programm.

Thank you very much for your effords, greeting Mathew


martin | 2020-09-11 20:10:57 UTC | #2

Hi @Matthias_Ottlinger welcome to the forum. Sorry I missed this til now, I just had a baby and have been very distracted!

In case it's still helpful to you, I found that when generating multiple plots into a PDF it's usually easiest to layout the entire page in matplotlib using subplots. You can do this, even if you're showing the plots in separate windows.

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To generate the PDF, create a canvas the size of your page, then add the subplots to this, and use matplotlib .savefig() to write the PDF.

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When you say it works outside pyqt5, is this using the same Python installation?

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