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Highcharts Essentials

You're reading from   Highcharts Essentials Create interactive data visualization charts with the Highcharts JavaScript library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783983964
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bilal Shahid Bilal Shahid
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Highcharts FREE CHAPTER 2. Column and Bar Charts 3. Line and Spline Charts 4. Area, Scatter, and Bubble Charts 5. Pie, Polar, and Spider Web Charts 6. Other Chart Types 7. Theming with Highcharts 8. Exploring Highcharts APIs and Events 9. Going Further with Highcharts Index

Exporting Highcharts into other formats

Highcharts provides a module to export charts into various image formats. There can be two possibilities when considering the export server, that is, to use Highcharts' official exporting server or set up your own server. We will use the export module to export our charts into various formats using the Highcharts CDN.

To enable exporting, the exporting.js file must be included after the highcharts.js file. It can be found in the Highcharts-4.x.x/js/modules folder and can also be included directly from http://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js.

To enable simple exporting, we need to set exporting.enabled to true in our chart configuration object:

$( '...' ).highcharts({
  ...
  exporting: {
    enabled: true
  },
  ...
});

By doing so, a button with a drop-down menu appears at the top-right corner of the chart:

Exporting Highcharts into other formats

The drop-down menu contains various options to export charts into formats including PNG, JPEG, PDF, and SVG.

You can alter various...

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