# Retrieve exact FF plot, and not export data

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/retrieve-exact-ff-plot-and-not-export-data/1462>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/retrieve-exact-ff-plot-and-not-export-data/1462 "2022-01-31T09:53:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Neutrino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bb73d2/32.png) [@Neutrino](https://community.freefem.org/u/Neutrino)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/retrieve-exact-ff-plot-and-not-export-data/1462/1 "2022-01-31T09:53:49Z")

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Hi there!

I wanted to ask whether one can export the FF plot as is, with the displayed isovalues.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/1X/b3963b209481c7bab146a140667fd389ebc38c53.png)

The reason I’m asking this is because when using [ffmatlib](https://github.com/samplemaker/freefem_matlab_octave_plot) after exporting the data, the plot generated by Octave is given a color bar rather than isovalues, as shown in the following figure.

 ![14](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/1X/26fe3b6cc70aa5693267169698435bc544a4676f.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![frederichecht](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/frederichecht/32/15_2.png) [@frederichecht](https://community.freefem.org/u/frederichecht)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/retrieve-exact-ff-plot-and-not-export-data/1462/2 "2022-01-31T16:04:39Z")

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To day the only way is to reuse FreeFEM to redo the plot and save the graphic windows.