Reports and dashboards created by Matplotlib can be consumed in different ways. They can be consumed in upstream web applications, they can be distributed as PDF files, they can be embedded into GUI toolkits, or they can be consumed online interactively.
In this chapter, we will learn how to save reports in various formats so that they can be distributed to consumers for direct consumption as in the case of PDF formats, or embedded into another application, such as GUI toolkits.