Bug report

Bug summary

The animated artists are missing when saving a figure with the pdf backend (matplotlib 3.0.0 and more recent). The png backend is working fine.

Code for reproduction

# Paste your code hereimportmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnpx=np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,100)fig,ax=plt.subplots()(ln,)=ax.plot(x,np.sin(x),animated=True)plt.show(block=False)plt.pause(0.1)bg=fig.canvas.copy_from_bbox(fig.bbox)ax.draw_artist(ln)fig.canvas.blit(fig.bbox)plt.savefig('Trial.pdf')

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

Saving using the following works fine:

# This is working finefrommatplotlib.backends.backend_pdfimportPdfPageswithPdfPages('Trial.pdf')aspdf:pdf.savefig()

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: linux
• Matplotlib version: 3.0.0 and above
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): 'Qt5Agg'
• Python version: 3.7.7
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries: