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**Created:** [December 11, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/no-subject/889 "2014-12-11T15:27:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/no-subject/889/1 "2014-12-11T15:27:12Z")

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Hi everyone,

[warning: straightforward question!]

I am trying to save automatically (and without necessarily showing) the  
output of evoked.plot\_topomap() but can't find a way. Am I missing an  
option/parameter in this function?

Thanks for any tip in advance,  
Virginie

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/no-subject/889/2 "2014-12-11T15:33:32Z")

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You should use show=False (and remember not to use plt.show() later).

To save you can use the returned figure handle.

fig.savefig(...)

Mainak

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/no-subject/889/3 "2014-12-11T15:34:59Z")

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Hi Virginie,

evoked.plot\_topomap returns a matplotlib figure object,

you can say:

fig = evoked.plot\_topomap(show=False)  
fig.savefig('my-figure.png')

2014-12-11 16:33 GMT+01:00 Mainak Jas \<mainakjas at gmail.com\>:

> You should use show=False (and remember not to use plt.show() later).
> 
> To save you can use the returned figure handle.
> 
> fig.savefig(...)
> 
> Mainak
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > [warning: straightforward question!]
> > 
> > I am trying to save automatically (and without necessarily showing) the  
> > output of evoked.plot\_topomap() but can't find a way. Am I missing an  
> > option/parameter in this function?
> > 
> > Thanks for any tip in advance,  
> > Virginie
> > 
> > --  
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Excellent! Thanks Mainak & Denis!  
-V