From 36d2f93069958632c07a49e4eee0f6d8a16fd9da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:43:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #14714: Point towards how to save output of
 non-interactive backends

---
 tutorials/introductory/usage.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tutorials/introductory/usage.py b/tutorials/introductory/usage.py
index d42f6ead859e..37291ecd8148 100644
--- 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