Save plots into a multi-page pdf?
I am creating a series of plots that I would like to save into a multi-page pdf file.
I found a couple of references about using matplotlib in pylab to do so, but I can't get it to work in SageMath. Is it possible to do this in SageMath?
Here's what I tried:
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
pdf_pages = PdfPages('curves.pdf')
p1, p1max, p2, p2max, a = var('p1, p1max, p2, p2max, a')
p1max = 10
p2max = 10
for p1 in [1..p1max]:
for p2 in [1..p2max]:
fig = parametric_plot([cos(a) + cos(p1*a)/2 + sin(p2*a)/3, sin(a) + sin(p1*a)/2 + cos(p2*a)/3], (a, 0, 2 * pi), title = ('(p1, p2) = (' + str(p1) + ', ' + str(p2) + ')'), frame = True, axes_pad = .05)
pdf_pages.savefig(fig)
pdf_pages.close()
... and it produces this error:
File "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 2438, in savefig
raise ValueError("No such figure: " + repr(figure))
ValueError: No such figure: Graphics object consisting of 1 graphics primitive
I'm not really sure that what you are saving is a matplotlib figure, though. You would want to convert the Sage graphics objects to
.matplotlib()first, I think - and even then I don't know whether Sage is compiled with this backend available, though you should try.Thanks for replying. Yes, it was an admittedly naive attempt to see if the PdfPages import would work as-is, and I didn't really expect it would. Now I'm hunting around to see if there's any other way of achieving the same result. If not, it's easy enough to create a pdf from individual plot images.
It may very well work, but again you'd have to convert the Sage figures into matplotlib ones - which is supported.