Save Matplotlib figure as TIFF
<p>Does anyone know how to save a Matplotlib figure as *.tiff? It seems that this format is not supported in Python, while the journals are quite often ask for that format.</p>

<p>I am adding some minimal code:</p>

<pre><code># -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# fig setup
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5,5), dpi=300)
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
ax.set_xlim([-1,1])
ax.set_ylim([-1,1])
ax.set_zlim([-1,1])
ax.axes.xaxis.set_ticklabels([])
ax.axes.yaxis.set_ticklabels([])
ax.axes.zaxis.set_ticklabels([])

# draw a surface
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(range(-1,2), range(-1,2))
zz = np.zeros(shape=(3,3))
ax.plot_surface(xx, yy, zz, color='#c8c8c8', alpha=0.3)
ax.plot_surface(xx, zz, yy, color='#b6b6ff', alpha=0.2)

# draw a point
ax.scatter([0],[0],[0], color='b', s=200)
</code></pre>

<p>This works:</p>

<pre><code>fig.savefig('3dPlot.pdf')
</code></pre>

<p>But this does not:</p>

<pre><code>fig.savefig('3dPlot.tif')
</code></pre>