There is no pdf output for 3-d graphics, at least not yet. 

One possibilitty is to use matplotlib's 3-d support directly, though it has 
some limitations. 
See http://ask.sagemath.org/question/1503/save-3d-plot-as-vector-format



On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:47:15 PM UTC-4, robin wrote:
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> thanks, but sage gives the following:
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> p=sum([point3d(i[:3],size=10*i[3]^(1/2)) for i in a if i[3]>.1])
> p.save("f.pdf")
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> Traceback (click to the left of this block for traceback)
> ...
> ValueError: filetype not supported by save()
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> rksh
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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> The plot file format is determined by the file extension:
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>> sage: plot(ln).save('my-ln-plot.pdf')
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>> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:38:44 PM UTC-4, robin wrote:
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>>> How do I produce high-res graphics with sage?  The best I can do is  
>>> either to click "Get Image",
>>> or p.save(),  but these options only produce  very poor-quality jpeg or 
>>> png:  unacceptable for publication-quality images.
>>> I would like a nice sharp pdf or eps or other nice vectorized output 
>>> that can go in my paper.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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