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68 lines
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Exporting
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PyQtGraph provides a variety of export formats for all 2D graphics. For 3D graphics, see `Exporting 3D Graphics`_ below.
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Exporting from the GUI
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Any 2D graphics can be exported by right-clicking on the graphic, then selecting 'export' from the context menu.
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This will display the export dialog in which the user must:
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#. Select an item (or the entire scene) to export. Selecting an item will cause the item to be hilighted in the original
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graphic window (but this hilight will not be displayed in the exported file).
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#. Select an export format.
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#. Change any desired export options.
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#. Click the 'export' button.
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Export Formats
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* Image - PNG is the default format. The exact set of image formats supported will depend on your Qt libraries. However,
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common formats such as PNG, JPG, and TIFF are almost always available.
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* SVG - Graphics exported as SVG are targeted to work as well as possible with both Inkscape and
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Adobe Illustrator. For high quality SVG export, please use PyQtGraph version 0.9.3 or later.
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This is the preferred method for generating publication graphics from PyQtGraph.
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* CSV - Exports plotted data as CSV. This exporter _only_ works if a PlotItem is selected for export.
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* Matplotlib - This exporter opens a new window and attempts to re-plot the
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data using matplotlib (if available). Note that some graphic features are either not implemented
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for this exporter or not available in matplotlib. This exporter _only_ works if a PlotItem is selected
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for export.
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* Printer - Exports to the operating system's printing service. This exporter is provided for completeness,
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but is not well supported due to problems with Qt's printing system.
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Exporting from the API
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To export a file programatically, follow this example::
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import pyqtgraph as pg
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# generate something to export
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plt = pg.plot([1,5,2,4,3])
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# create an exporter instance, as an argument give it
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# the item you wish to export
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exporter = pg.exporters.ImageExporter.ImageExporter(plt.plotItem)
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# set export parameters if needed
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exporter.parameters()['width'] = 100 # (note this also affects height parameter)
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# save to file
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exporter.export('fileName.png')
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Exporting 3D Graphics
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The exporting functionality described above is not yet available for 3D graphics. However, it is possible to
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generate an image from a GLViewWidget by using QGLWidget.grabFrameBuffer or QGLWidget.renderPixmap::
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glview.grabFrameBuffer().save('fileName.png')
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See the Qt documentation for more information.
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