Re: [Matplotlib-users] Save pdf with plot_surface

[Derek T. <der...@gm...>]

I was able to fix this by uninstalling the matplotlib from homebrew and
installing with pip.


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Derek Thomas <der...@gm...>wrote:

> This may be known, but the following modified example from
> http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/tutorial.html fails with a
> TypeError at matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.pyc in draw_path_collection.
>  Is it possible to save pdf files with surface plots?
>
> from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
> from matplotlib import cm
> from matplotlib.ticker import LinearLocator, FormatStrFormatter
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> import numpy as np
>
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
> X = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)
> Y = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)
> X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)
> R = np.sqrt(X**2 + Y**2)
> Z = np.sin(R)
> surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1, cmap=cm.coolwarm,
>         linewidth=0, antialiased=False)
> ax.set_zlim(-1.01, 1.01)
>
> ax.zaxis.set_major_locator(LinearLocator(10))
> ax.zaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('%.02f'))
>
> fig.colorbar(surf, shrink=0.5, aspect=5)
> fig.savefig('test.pdf')
> plt.show()
>
>