Dear Developers, I need to save a Calc chart to external graphical image file. 9 years ago it was promised that a special component would be introduced for that purpose: http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=70
I couldn't find any trace of such a component in current OO, and the only way I could save a chart to an image was applying a workaround that involved copying chart to drawing. This page http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart2codestructure.html statest that The View is the creator of the visual screen representation. The chart view creates Shapes as offered by Draw and Impress ( see API com::sun::star::drawing <http://api.openoffice.org/source/browse/api/offapi/com/sun/star/drawing/?only_with_tag=MAIN>service 'Shape'). There are some c++ exports from this library (see chart2/source/inc/chartview) offered for use in the controller. These are candidates for UNO interfaces in future. My questions are: 1. What is a recommended way of exporting charts to images in OO 3.2? 2. Will the View component be able to export images, and if yes - when it will be available in UNO? Thanks!
