% Created 2011-05-19 Thu 13:28 \documentclass[presentation]{beamer} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{fixltx2e} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{wrapfig} \usepackage{soul} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{marvosym} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{latexsym} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{hyperref} \tolerance=1000 \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{ae,aecompl} \usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{listings} \lstset{language=Python, basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries, commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape, stringstyle=\color{darkgreen}, showstringspaces=false, keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries} \providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}} \title{} \author{FOSSEE} \date{2010-10-11 Mon} \usetheme{Warsaw}\usecolortheme{default}\useoutertheme{infolines}\setbeamercovered{transparent} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{center} \vspace{12pt} \textcolor{blue}{\huge Saving Plots} \end{center} \vspace{18pt} \begin{center} \vspace{10pt} \includegraphics[scale=0.95]{../images/fossee-logo.png}\\ \vspace{5pt} \scriptsize Developed by FOSSEE Team, IIT-Bombay. \\ \scriptsize Funded by National Mission on Education through ICT\\ \scriptsize MHRD,Govt. of India\\ \includegraphics[scale=0.30]{../images/iitb-logo.png}\\ \end{center} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Objectives} \label{sec-2} At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to, \begin{itemize} \item Save plots using ``savefig()`` function. \item Save plots in different formats. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Pre-requisite} \label{sec-3} Spoken tutorial on - \begin{itemize} \item Using plot interactively. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Creating a basic plot} \label{sec-4} Plot a sine wave from -3pi to 3pi. \lstset{language=Python} \begin{lstlisting} In []: x = linspace(-3*pi,3*pi,100) In []: plot(x, sin(x)) \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{savefig()} \label{sec-5} \begin{itemize} \item savefig() - to save plots \label{sec-5_1}% \begin{verbatim} syntax: savefig(fname) \end{verbatim} \item example \label{sec-5_2}% \begin{itemize} \item savefig('/home/fossee/sine.png')\\ \label{sec-5_2_1}% \begin{itemize} \item file sine.png saved to the folder /home/fossee \item .png - file type \end{itemize} \end{itemize} % ends low level \end{itemize} % ends low level \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{More on savefig()} \label{sec-6} \begin{itemize} \item Recall\\ \label{sec-6_1}% \begin{itemize} \item .png - file type \end{itemize} \item File types supported \label{sec-6_2}% \begin{itemize} \item .pdf - PDF(Portable Document Format)\\ \label{sec-6_2_1}% \item .ps - PS(Post Script)\\ \label{sec-6_2_2}% \item .eps - Encapsulated Post Script\\ \label{sec-6_2_3}% \verb~to be used with~ \LaTeX{} \verb~documents~ \item .svg - Scalable Vector Graphics\\ \label{sec-6_2_4}% \verb~vector graphics~ \item .png - Portable Network Graphics\\ \label{sec-6_2_5}% \verb~supports transparency~ \end{itemize} % ends low level \end{itemize} % ends low level \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Exercise 1} \label{sec-7} Save the sine plot in the format EPS which can be embedded in \LaTeX{} documents. \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Exercise 2} \label{sec-8} Save the sine plot in PDF, PS and SVG formats. \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Summary} \label{sec-9} In this tutorial, we have learnt to – \begin{itemize} \item Save plots using the ``savefig()`` function. \item Save the plots in differnt formats. \begin{itemize} \item pdf \item ps \item png \item svg \item eps \end{itemize} \item Locate files in the file system. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Evaluation} \label{sec-10} \begin{enumerate} \item Which command is used to save a plot. \begin{itemize} \item saveplot() \item savefig() \item savefigure() \item saveplt() \end{itemize} \item ``savefig(`sine.png')`` saves the plot in, \begin{itemize} \item The root directory ``/`` (on GNU/Linux, Unix based systems), ``c:\`` (on windows). \item Will result in an error as full path is not supplied. \item The current working directory. \item Predefined directory like ``/documents``. \end{itemize} \end{enumerate} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Solutions} \label{sec-11} \begin{enumerate} \item savefig() \item The current working directory \end{enumerate} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \begin{block}{} \begin{center} \textcolor{blue}{\Large THANK YOU!} \end{center} \end{block} \begin{block}{} \begin{center} For more Information, visit our website\\ \url{http://fossee.in/} \end{center} \end{block} \end{frame} \end{frame} \end{document}