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Published inJan 2015
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Joe Kuan
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Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.
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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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Published in: Jan 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783287451

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Joe Kuan

Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.
Read more about Joe Kuan