Chart to Image
Rendering Charts
Aspose.Cells APIs support to convert the Excel Charts to images formats without requiring any additional tools or applications. In order to provide rendering support, the Chart class has exposed ToImage methods with a verity of overloads to best suit the application requirements.
Rendering Charts to Images
The Chart.ToImage method has a verity of overloads to support simple as well as advanced rendering. If the application requirement is to render the chart in its default dimensions, we suggest you use the Chart.ToImage method as follow.
It is also possible to render the charts to images with advanced settings. Aspose.Cells APIs have exposed an overload version of Chart.ToImage method that could accept an instance of ImageOrPrintOptions, while allowing to specify parameters such as resolution, smoothing mode, image format and so on.
Supported Chart Types for Rendering
There are a few chart types that are currently not supported for rendering. Such chart types contain N in the Supported column of the below table.
| Chart type | Chart sub-type | Supported |
|---|---|---|
| Column | Column | Y |
| ColumnStacked | Y | |
| Column100PercentStacked | Y | |
| Column3DClustered | Y | |
| Column3DStacked | Y | |
| Column3D100PercentStacked | Y | |
| Column3D | Y | |
| Bar | Bar | Y |
| BarStacked | Y | |
| Bar100PercentStacked | Y | |
| Bar3DClustered | Y | |
| Bar3DStacked | Y | |
| Bar3D100PercentStacked | Y | |
| Line | Line | Y |
| LineStacked | Y | |
| Line100PercentStacked | Y | |
| LineWithDataMarkers | Y | |
| LineStackedWithDataMarkers | Y | |
| Line100PercentStackedWithDataMarkers | Y | |
| Line3D | Y | |
| Pie | Pie | Y |
| Pie3D | Y | |
| PiePie | Y | |
| PieExploded | Y | |
| Pie3DExploded | Y | |
| PieBar | Y | |
| Scatter | Scatter | Y |
| ScatterConnectedByCurvesWithDataMarker | Y | |
| ScatterConnectedByCurvesWithoutDataMarker | Y | |
| ScatterConnectedByLinesWithDataMarker | Y | |
| ScatterConnectedByLinesWithoutDataMarker | Y | |
| Area | Area | Y |
| AreaStacked | Y | |
| Area100PercentStacked | Y | |
| Area3D | Y | |
| Area3DStacked | Y | |
| Area3D100PercentStacked | Y | |
| Doughnut | Doughnut | Y |
| DoughnutExploded | Y | |
| Radar | Radar | Y |
| RadarWithDataMarkers | Y | |
| RadarFilled | Y | |
| Surface | Surface3D | N |
| SurfaceWireframe3D | N | |
| SurfaceContour | N | |
| SurfaceContourWireframe | N | |
| Bubble | Bubble | Y |
| Bubble3D | N | |
| Stock | StockHighLowClose | Y |
| StockOpenHighLowClose | Y | |
| StockVolumeHighLowClose | Y | |
| StockVolumeOpenHighLowClose | Y | |
| Cylinder | Cylinder | Y |
| CylinderStacked | Y | |
| Cylinder100PercentStacked | Y | |
| CylindricalBar | Y | |
| CylindricalBarStacked | Y | |
| CylindricalBar100PercentStacked | Y | |
| CylindricalColumn3D | Y | |
| Cone | Cone | Y |
| ConeStacked | Y | |
| Cone100PercentStacked | Y | |
| ConicalBar | Y | |
| ConicalBarStacked | Y | |
| ConicalBar100PercentStacked | Y | |
| ConicalColumn3D | Y | |
| Pyramid | Pyramid | Y |
| PyramidStacked | Y | |
| Pyramid100PercentStacked | Y | |
| PyramidBar | Y | |
| PyramidBarStacked | Y | |
| PyramidBar100PercentStacked | Y | |
| PyramidColumn3D | Y | |
| BoxWhisker | BoxWhisker | Y |
| Funnel | Funnel | Y |
| ParetoLine | ParetoLine | Y |
| Sunburst | Sunburst | Y |
| Treemap | Treemap | Y |
| Waterfall | Waterfall | Y |
| Histogram | Histogram | Y |
| Map | Map | N |