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RE: Export to JPEG

lovwswfbi — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:29:44 GMT

Do you talk the softwar [url=http://www.qweas.com/download/web/flash_animation_tools/swf_to_screensaver_scout.htm]SWF To Screensaver Scout[/url], which can convert swf to JPG, TIFF, PDF and PNG image files, I have used it, it is good.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:14:27 GMT

http://www.bytescout.com/swftoimage.html wouldn't work as it generates images from static SWFs at server side. FusionCharts static SWF doesn't actually contain the chart- it contains code to generate charts.

http://pdfill.com/index.html seems like a client side tool to generate PDFs?

RE: Export to JPEG

Monkeydancer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:54:55 GMT

Will you provide Visual Basic code for the "Saving as Image" function in the future?

RE: Export to JPEG

exwhyz — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:05:04 GMT

Another option would be to programattically generate a PDF file with an embedded Flash object. Something similar to:

http://pdfill.com/index.html

Building this functionality in FusionChart would be an awesome feature. A lot of clients want to save charts locally and this is currently a limiting factor in FusionCharts.

RE: Export to JPEG

exwhyz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:51:41 GMT

Why not use some library like this and embed into the chart with a right click option. The conversion will still need to happen at the application level

http://www.bytescout.com/swftoimage.html

RE: Export to JPEG

Roman G. — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:13:24 GMT

We have another demand, we would like to export to different formats inside the same page depending on what button the user clicks. So we need either the opportunity to change dynamically imageSaveURL or to add another parameter to imageSaveURL to determine the selected format.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:51:52 GMT

To implement saving in various formats, you'll need to change the server side script to just output in the necessary format.

To change the text of context menu item, you'll need to modify the source code.

RE: Export to JPEG

Roman G. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:29:43 GMT

Hi,

we would like to use the "Save image as" functionality to export to different formats like BMP, JPG, PPT etc. Therefor we need the opportunity to change the imageSaveURL dynamically with JavaScript. Is this possible at present or could you implement this functionality? In addition it would be desireable to change the text ("Save image as").

Regards

RE: Export to JPEG

Jordan3i4 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:29:14 GMT

Nevermind on that last post. Would be a pretty terrible idea to have to programmatically open up a user's browser, just to save
the image as a jpeg. Any suggestions for alternatives? Right now I build charts in MS Excel, export to JPEG, and display within
my desktop application.

RE: Export to JPEG

Jordan3i4 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:33 GMT

Could you show me an example of how I can do this programmatically?

I won't be using any web server at all, as this is completely a desktop application.

I could perhaps programmatically open up IE; therefore, I need it to save to an image

file when the data is done loading. What do I need to put in my XML and HTML files

to accomplish this? I read the docs, but it mentioned .aspx or php, neither of which I can use.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:55:13 GMT

Hi,

You cannot do it in C++ as of now. However, in v3.0.6, we've exposed a JavaScript method that can be invoked at client side to automatically initiate the saving process once the chart has finished rendering.

RE: Export to JPEG

Jordan3i4 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:22:47 GMT

My company is considering purchasing fusioncharts. In order to do so, we must be able to save the chart to an image file programmatically, for use in a Qt application. Are there any command line tools, libraries, or other solutions that can allow us to write some C++ code to save charts as image files?

RE: Export to JPEG

timvasil — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:44:56 GMT

If you're interested in using FusionCharts with Java and need a port of the server-side image exporting code, I've posted it here:

http://timvasil.com/blog14/post/2008/02/Exporting-FusionChart-images.aspx

RE: Export to JPEG

pbshoe — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:06:25 GMT

I'm using a Mac, and tried Firefox and Safari. Still doesn't work... Of course I could always choose the print function from the context menu, but lets get real and say "that won't work", as I'm trying to automate the creation of a dashboard.

I've gone round and round on the boards, and have found another page where you guys told us about the only ratios that print. That's simply ludicrous. For me, having a pie chart that is less than 2 inches around is simply stupid. Too small for anybody to read.

You guys really have to figure out a solution for many of us who are trying to use your product to automate the creation of a dashboard. Simply providing a solution for websites is good, but a many number of us are trying to solve another problem.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:27:18 GMT

Hi,

If you're using Firefox, the chart wouldn't appear in preview. Also, for printing to PDF what print driver are you using?

Alternatively, you can also right click on chart and export as image.

RE: Export to JPEG

pbshoe — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:05:13 GMT

I've been struggling with simply printing an HTML page that contains FusionCharts to a PDF, with no luck. Despite the fact that FusionCharts folks say this is possible, I've been unable to get it to work.

Even if I go to one of your pages:
A live demo is at http://www.fusioncharts.com/GalleryChart.asp?id=1

And print to PDF, or looking at the preview functionality, the graph just doesn't appear. Any idea why?

RE: Export to JPEG

bbodien — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:40:42 GMT

If you're interested in exporting FusionCharts as PNG instead of JPEG, we've modified the webservice to do so.

Details in [url=http://www.fusioncharts.com/forum/Topic3875-7-1.aspx]this thread[/url].

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:26:47 GMT

Hi,

It's atleast 8-10 months away.

RE: Export to JPEG

ilia — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:51:00 GMT

If you don't mind me asking, what is the timeline for FusionCharts v4? At the present time the export function is just too bandwidth intensive for people with less then a broadband connection or connections with limited upstream.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:42:33 GMT

>>> This is great! Nice work. Is there a way to call that "save to image" function from javascript?

I'm afraid you cannot do this as of now.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:42:13 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion.

We had prototyped with LZW compression too. However, since Flash 8 doesn't support byte data type natively, we had to send bytes as chr(byte's decimal value) characters, which tend to be UTF-8 characters after the initial ASCII 256 characters. Now, at server side, this was getting platform specific, as PHP and ASP.NET didn't convert it back to the original format.

As such, we had to resort to RLE encoding, which does provide a lot of compression (from 2MB of data to 300KB), is more processor efficient than LZW (at least in case of Flash), but the compression factor is higher.

In Flash 9, this can be easily done, as ByteArray is supported and GZip compression is natively supported. As such, we expect to provide a better way to do this in FusionCharts v4.

RE: Export to JPEG

ilia — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:10:02 GMT

As it currently stands an export of an average chart causes the user's browser to send 180-300kb of text over the stream, which makes image generation quite flow for people with weak uplink.

Could you consider implementing LZW (optionally, based on a parameter) compression of the data, which substantially reduces the time needed to generate a JPEG image. For example your sample chart at http://www.fusioncharts.com/GalleryChart.asp?id=1 requires the client to send 190kb of text. LZW compression lowers that number to mere 31kb, making the export that much more practical.

The LZW compression is already implemented in ActionScript (http://www.razorberry.com/blog/content/LZW.as) and would be trivial to add on top of the existing code. Could you please consider implementing this functionality for the next version, we'd be happy to help test this functionality and revise the PHP rendering script to accommodate the change, not to mention provide a substantially faster PHP image rendering code.

RE: Export to JPEG

smerickson — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:42:31 GMT

This is great! Nice work. Is there a way to call that "save to image" function from javascript?

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:17:04 GMT

Starting FusionCharts v3.0.5, you can now export your charts as images. You may read more on it at:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/docs/Contents/SAIOverview.html
http://www.fusioncharts.com/docs/Contents/SAISetting.html

A live demo is at http://www.fusioncharts.com/GalleryChart.asp?id=1 - just right click on the chart and select "Save as Image".

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:16:59 GMT

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:53:36 GMT

Hi,

FusionCharts supports native printing using the right click context menu.

RE: Export to JPEG

ctoesite — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:06:10 GMT

Team,

There is a free HTML capture tool .. no need to spend money on a solution. It can be run from the command line. We use it successfully, to generated JPEGs of our flash charts.

http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/

Now if we could only get true printing capability out of Fusion we would be all set!

RD

RE: Export to JPEG

Kersten — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:17:37 GMT

We found a solution to get JPGs / Gifs / PNGs / Tiffs

We use a Microsoft Windows Server and bought "HTML Snapshot ActiveX Component"

from http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm (180$)

This component makes a Snapshot from a Webpage, using a given URL (URLs of the Charts).

We test it since yesterday and it works fine and without any problems.

They also deliver code examples for different Languages like, ASP, ASP.net, Coldfusion, Python...

For Unix and Linux Users it might help to search for simalar tools (url to image).

Best regards

Kersten

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:29:15 GMT

Hi,

Thanks a lot for this info. Would it be possible for you to share code on this forum so that our other users can also utilize this technology?

RE: Export to JPEG

gullettm — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:38:14 GMT

I recently had to create a web reporting tool for a client that used Fusion charts on the web-side, but produced Word/Excel/PowerPoint and PDF outputs as well. The reports are produced server-side and I used a simple library called F-In-A-Box (http://www.f-in-box.com/) to capture the FusionCharts to JPGs as needed. (Actually it captured the image to a bitmap which I converted to a JPG.) I just wrote a simple server-side .NET component that responded to a URL request by using the F-In-A-Box software to capture the chart and then streaming the JPG back to the end-user. It took a few hundred lines of code, but it works quite well.

RE: Export to JPEG

cmassieu — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:18:40 GMT

Hehe... that Sephiroth... I've been visiting his website for a long time now, and he always find the way to surprise me with a new "oh, I was toying with this and that, and look what came of it...".

Anyway, I was looking for the same functionality for a dashboard I was developing and came across the solution provided by Sephiroth, I analyzed and implemented, but no matter how I tried to optimize the solution I always ended up with either long times of processing (which given the client-side nature of Flash is not to be relied on) or long times of transfer resulting in a bandwidth problem.

I think there are ways to serialize images in order to send them to server-side scripts that can process it and store it or do whatever you need with them, but that only solves the cross-platform end of the problem not the heavy process/bandwidth end, but I'm no web developer, I'm more into Actionscript that anything else.

I finally decided to redraw the chart in a smaller container before processing and sending it to the server-side script but that was only a work-around more than a solution.

Sincerely:

Cmassieu

RE: Export to JPEG

Shaillen — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:58:46 GMT

Hi Pallav

we are planning to buy the FusionChart , But we have a requirement of exporting the chart to a pdf/excel sheet/clipart .So if we go ahead buy the software, will you be able to provide us a patch to have these functionalities after you come with a solution sooner.

thanks

Shailen

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:43:41 GMT

Hi,

Since FusionCharts entirely depends upon Flash, we cannot shift the solution to server side. In that case, we'll have to create a .NET/Java/COM based component to do the entire thing in a different way at server side.

RE: Export to JPEG

jlattke — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:44:33 GMT

... sorry to ask the same question in an other way: why don't you offer a serverbased solution to generate an static image like a JPEG or GIF? The problem is that we could use FusionCharts in a lot of projects but there mostly is a need to produce a print-layout. That means we have to have a image-solution ... It would be great if a (server based) solution produces the images just in time when they're requested (only to have then in a special printlayout).

At the moment FusionCharts is a nice "gimmick"". But in our case it's useless until it can produce printable pictures in addition (so we have to use a solution without visual effects and eye-candy just to realize an printable layout – that's boring). Can't you help with tips or solutions?

Thanks for any answer. Regards Jens

RE: Export to JPEG

Steven Pena — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:01:38 GMT

It's a little tricky to do it with Flash, but it can be done. It would, however, require some server side support. With the many advancements in Flash it's now possible to create a bitmap image within flash, render a flash drawing to that and then capture the bitmap data. You could then send that data to an external script which could re-render that bitmap data into an image for saving or viewing on a web browser. There are other techniques out there to compress the data (which is essentially a raw bitmap, so you can imagine how big those can get) so that it saves on bandwith.

Here's just one solution:

http://sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/

:)
Steven

RE: Export to JPEG

smerickson — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:31:46 GMT

That sounds great for the client side. Does anybody know of any server side tools available for converting a swf to gif/jpeg/png? I'd like to be able to serve my fusioncharts as either swf or an image file.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:24:33 GMT

It'll not be this year, owing to our scheduled releases.

RE: Export to JPEG

bsides — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:23:28 GMT

Is there any estimated time when this release will be out? I am using 3.0 and have been asked to get some sort of save as image going as soon as possible. If you are going to have this relatively soon it will free up my developers to work on other parts of our site.

RE: Export to JPEG

Pallav — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:47:00 GMT

>>> I think you could possibly do this within the flash itself. creating a right click option to save as image. I looking through the posts this seems like a request that would help many many of us out.

This is something which we'll be implementing in future release - we're currently working on the technicalities of the same.

RE: Export to JPEG

bsides — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:03 GMT

I think you could possibly do this within the flash itself. creating a right click option to save as image. I looking through the posts this seems like a request that would help many many of us out.