Exporting Fusion Charts to PDF

Here is another option, http://blog.fusioncharts.com/2009/05/export-your-charts-as-images-or-pdfs/.  It does both image and pdf.

Hi thanks for the reply, we looked at this but when you look at it in more depth it requires the server setting up with additional open source software, and other tweaks we would like to avoid that as the server currently hosts several of our products.

We have been looking at TCPDF but

But what?  In my experience the two "mainstream" PHP libraries are FPDF and TCPDF.  Have a look at the question over here for a couple of examples of the "hello world" exercises using these class libraries.

The largest challenge you may face arises from the way Fusion Charts uses the client-server model.  Your data is built on the server, then sent to the JavaScript client in XML format, where the chart rendering takes place under control of the web browser.  If you want to create a PDF, however, the entire process lives on the server.  What this means, in a nutshell, is that you lose the chart rendering of JavaScript and you're back to just having the XML document.  You can't export the charts to PDF; the data has already been exported before the chart is rendered, and you can't readily get it back from the browser.  There are some Windows-only capabilities in PHP that might be useful, but I've never heard a satisfactory success story.

I often see questions that go something like, "How can I convert my web page to PDF," and there really is not any good answer for a question like that.  These two things are "fish and fowl," both consumables but not at all alike.  A more successful path is usually found when the question is "How can I render the data that is currently shown on my web page, but on paper, in the form of a PDF?"  That leads you in the direction of the server-side technologies that can be made to work well.

You might consider JpGraph.  It can build the server-side image files you need.  You might also consider doing a bit of your own rendering using the PHP image manipulation functions.  It looks like it is unsupported, but FCImg might be useful.  I have never tried it, but it sounds promising.  It's a bit of a Rube Goldberg design with a lot of moving parts and it would probably be a release-maintenance headache, but it might be worth a test drive.

""We have been looking at TCPDF but"
But what?"

But TCPDF cant gather the  Rendered Fusion Charts.

If you want the rendered Fusion Charts and you're not able to accept anything else, you're putting a big risk into the project.  I understand that may be necessary.  I would look at FCImg.  But I would also have the nagging doubt that it's kind like chemotherapy.  It might work, but only if accompanied by prayer and good luck.  And it might not.  

If this were my project, I would start by setting up a group of qualification tests that could show you, quickly, whether FCImg was a good solution.

Thanks for the points and thanks for using EE, ~Ray