# workflow to export a view to tex

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/workflow-to-export-a-view-to-tex/12169
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 27, 2023, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/workflow-to-export-a-view-to-tex/12169 "2023-05-27T10:06:06Z")
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### Author: ![simonw](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@simonw](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/simonw)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2023, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/workflow-to-export-a-view-to-tex/12169/1 "2023-05-27T10:06:07Z")

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Hi all,

say I have a view in which a scalar finite element field is visualized over a 2d mesh.  
Currently, I save this view as a screenshot and include this screenshot in my tex document.  
A drawback with with this approach is that one has to make sure that fonts,… are consistent with the .tex document.

In matlab, I would do a surface plot to visualize the data and maybe use programs like matlab2tikz to convert the plot to a .tex document.  
Within tex, I would use the pgflots package directly to create a plot.

So, are there better ways for the transfer of a view from paraview to tex?