# This is a demo of creating a pdf file with several pages. 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() # Remember to close the object - otherwise the file will not be usable pdf.close()