Homework Guide

Generate PDF files from IPython Notebooks

1. Install the necessary packages:

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-xetex pandoc

2. Set the appropriate flags in your notebook:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
from IPython.display import set_matplotlib_formats
set_matplotlib_formats('png', 'pdf')

# optional, but suppressing warnings makes for a cleaner output
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

3. Run the shell script notebook_to_pdf (located in this folder):

Note: If you are using conda or a virtualenv, make sure to source that environment before running this command

./notebook_to_pdf PATH/TO/<NOTEBOOK_NAME>.ipynb

You should see the file <NOTEBOOK_NAME>.pdf alongside your notebook!