Alternative to Image Charts now that they're deprecated?

[Ben Sinclair]

I was using the Image Charts for displaying the charts in a printer
friendly PDF file. Is there an alternative to this now that Image
Charts are going?

Can I somehow make the JavaScript API work in PDFs?

I currently use TCPDF (http://www.tcpdf.org/) to generate my PDFs.

I did do a Google Search to try find my answer but couldn't really
find any answers.

Appreciate any input you have ;)

[MC Get Vizzy]

You're thinking ahead.  Good for you!  I don't have a solution for you, but the Image Charts are available until 2015.  By 2015, either the dog will die, the landowner will die, or the Interactive Charts will figure out how to print themselves.

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[rio]

This might be a problem I've got an image-chart graph that no charting tool can do other than Image-charts. It sort of a full bar chart that resembles a guitar tablature. I guess i have a few years to figure out an alternative.

[asgallant]

You can indeed convert the charts to png files (see this thread).  Note that you can only do this in browsers that support both SVG and canvas elements (basically everything except IE < 9).

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:02:53 PM UTC-5, Michael Fever wrote:

I'm hoping they willl just keep the image charts going. I'm in the same boat.  Sure the new jsapi charts are great for displaying on a website but they are absolute no good if you need to embed into a PDF report.

TCPDF has its own charting library but its nowhere near as powerful as the google API.

Someone was toying around with using HTML5 to write the chart to a canvas and then export that canvas to an img somehow.. but I dont know if that would work.

Maybe they'll keep the charts alive past 4/20/2015.

[Alex Dennis]

Another alternative is ChartURL. They make it very easy to generate personalized charts which can be embedded into emails, web/mobile apps, etc.It's very similar to Google Image Charts but uses C3.js and can handle more data via an api call. You should check it out!