.. _pylab_examples-multipage_pdf: pylab_examples example code: multipage_pdf.py ============================================= .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/multipage_pdf.py :: # This is a demo of creating a pdf file with several pages. import datetime import numpy as np import matplotlib from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages from pylab import * # Create the PdfPages object to which we will save the pages: pdf = PdfPages('multipage_pdf.pdf') figure(figsize=(3,3)) plot(range(7), [3,1,4,1,5,9,2], 'r-o') title('Page One') savefig(pdf, format='pdf') # note the format='pdf' argument! close() rc('text', usetex=True) figure(figsize=(8,6)) x = np.arange(0,5,0.1) plot(x, np.sin(x), 'b-') title('Page Two') pdf.savefig() # here's another way - or you could do pdf.savefig(1) close() rc('text', usetex=False) fig=figure(figsize=(4,5)) plot(x, x*x, 'ko') title('Page Three') pdf.savefig(fig) # or you can pass a Figure object to pdf.savefig 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() # Remember to close the object - otherwise the file will not be usable pdf.close() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)