# An exemple in order to save figures generated by PGFPlotsX
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** pgfplotsx
**Created:** [April 24, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120 "2020-04-24T01:44:21Z")
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### Author:  [@aquarelle332](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aquarelle332)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120/1 "2020-04-24T01:44:21Z")
_Julia 1.4.1_
\*Kubuntu 18.04 LST \*
_LaTeX + textlive-full (including LuaLaTeX) + ImageMagik_
_Documentation: PGFPlotsX.jl by Kristoffer Carlsson_
Hello dear all,
Say that I am using an elementary code as follows, extracted from the [here](https://kristofferc.github.io/PGFPlotsX.jl/stable/examples/gallery.html#manual_gallery-1):
```julia
using PGFPlotsX
using LaTeXStrings
@pgf Axis(
{
xlabel = L"x",
ylabel = L"f(x) = x^2 - x + 4"
},
Plot(
Expression("x^2 - x + 4")
)
)
```
In the documentation I note the general way to export .tex file or .svg figure
```julia
pgfsave(filename::AbstractString, figure; include_preamble::Bool = true, dpi = 150)
```
However I don’t see **how to do in practice in order to obtain** :
- a .tex file which can be compiled in Kile for exemple
- a figure.svg (or .pdf) to be saved.
I lauch prgms from a console with the command julia simple.jl
Thank you in advance for any reply,
Thierry
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120/2 "2020-04-24T06:10:22Z")
I am not sure if you read
[https://kristofferc.github.io/PGFPlotsX.jl/stable/man/save.html](https://kristofferc.github.io/PGFPlotsX.jl/stable/man/save.html)
In any case,
```julia
p = @pgf Axis(
{
xlabel = L"x",
ylabel = L"f(x) = x^2 - x + 4"
},
Plot(
Expression("x^2 - x + 4")
)
)
pgfsave("/tmp/x.tex", p)
pgfsave("/tmp/x.pdf", p)
```
works fine for me (I don’t know what Kile is, but the `.tex` file compiles find with `pdflatex`).
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### Author:  [@aquarelle332](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aquarelle332)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120/3 "2020-04-24T08:19:33Z")
Thank you very much Tamas\_Papp. Indeed the pgfsave instruction as you wrote it perfectly works.
I am sorry to have bothered you. These last days I read so much documentation about both"Gaston/Gnuplot" and “PGFPlotsX” that I couln’t find my way alone.
[Kile](https://kile.sourceforge.io/) is an integrated LaTeX editing environment.
Kind rgards,
T.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120/4 "2020-04-24T08:43:42Z")
> [@aquarelle332](#):
>
> I am sorry to have bothered you.
You haven’t (and I don’t think anything I wrote was meant to give that impression), as you did not contact me directly, just asked the question here and I was happy to help.
Enjoy PGFPlotsX, which is a therapeutic device for mitigating obsessive-compulsive visualization disorder, disguised as a Julia package.
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### Author:  [@aquarelle332](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aquarelle332)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-exemple-in-order-to-save-figures-generated-by-pgfplotsx/38120/5 "2020-04-24T10:20:53Z")
Excellent! 😀