Exporting chart as image

[SpankySpanky]

Hello

I am using Visual Basic .NET 2003 and the bundled Crystal Reports that comes with it. I would like if I can, to use the graphing engine in CR and export graphs as an image that I can use in other ways. Is this possible? I guess that it is since reports can be shown in HTML form and I presume they need to be in image format to do that.

Is this possible programmatically from a VB.NET Forms application? Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[SpankySpanky]

Anybody??

 

[Madawc]

You can export as a PDF; I've done that with charts. That can then be tied to a web page.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[hansdebadde]

I am using CR11 and I can cut and paste the charts as images. This has to be done manually and it is one chart at a time only, not the whole report. I paste them into MSPaint and then save them in the format I need. I think this works in CR9 but you would have to try.

 

[kenhamady]

If you export to HTML the chart will indeed become a separate image file (jpg I think).How you would access that file from your code is the harder question.

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[SpankySpanky]

Thanks to all for your suggestions!

Regards

 

[IdoMillet]

One issue with the hTML export is that the image file will have a random name.

A 3rd-party tool may help here (see list at:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html).

My Visual CUT software can automate the process of exporting to pdf and converting the pdf to an image (The supported image types are: BMP, JPEG, WMF, EMF, EPS, PNG, or GIF). If the pdf file contains multiple pages, an image file for each page is created with the page number at the end of the file name.

- Ido

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