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Learning Highcharts 4

You're reading from  Learning Highcharts 4

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287451
Pages 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joe Kuan Joe Kuan
Profile icon Joe Kuan

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Learning Highcharts 4
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations 3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts 4. Bar and Column Charts 5. Pie Charts 6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts 7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts 8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts 9. 3D Charts 10. Highcharts APIs 11. Highcharts Events 12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 13. Highcharts and Ext JS 14. Server-side Highcharts 15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins Index

Highcharts export server – export.highcharts.com


In the last chapter, we looked into running Highcharts on the server side. However, some users may not want to set up their own server operations. This is where export.highcharts.com comes in. Originally, it was only set up for the exporting module so that users running Highcharts on the Internet could export their charts freely. Later, the URL was expanded to support online services. This let users enter their own Highcharts configuration and download the resulting chart images.

The following is part of the export.highcharts.com web page:

As we can see, the user input indeed corresponds to the parameters of the server-side script, highcharts_convert.js, which we covered in a previous chapter. Both the web interface and server process are implemented in Java, which deliver the user's options to the PhantomJS/highcharts_convert.js process and exports it into SVG. Once the Java server receives the SVG result, it launches Batik to format into...

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