Backport PR #14714: Point towards how to save output of non-interactive backends

timhoffm · MeeseeksDev[bot] · commit 36d2f9306995 · 2019-07-17T06:41:39.000Z
diff --git a/tutorials/introductory/usage.py b/tutorials/introductory/usage.py
@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ def my_plotter(ax, data1, data2, param_dict):
 #                 :term:`svg`
 # =============   ============   ================================================
 #
+# To save plots using the non-interactive backends, use the
+# ``matplotlib.pyplot.savefig('filename')`` method.
+#
 # And here are the user interfaces and renderer combinations supported;
 # these are *interactive backends*, capable of displaying to the screen
 # and of using appropriate renderers from the table above to write to
