Dump chart to image for email

[tomerikko]

Hi @PrzemyslawKlys ,
i am trying to find a way to create a graph > convert it to an image > and use the image in an email Body.
that is to avoid any issues with different email clients.
Any idea on how to do that would be grateful :)

i looked in New-ChartPie couldn't see any option to dump to file, so i am assuming some piping and functions magic is needed.

if you have any simple idea i would appreciate that.

thanks again!
Tomer.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Won't work. Similar to diagrams #271 it's all generated on the fly.

I've started some tests on how to create charts in simple CSS that would work in email but it wasn't any good, giving mixed results. I have to find library that would be generating charts straight to images and then try to make it usable in PSWriteHTML.

[tomerikko]

Got it, thanks @PrzemyslawKlys , your work and help is truly appreciated.

[tomerikko]

not sure if it helps with your project @PrzemyslawKlys or not.
but also for the rest, i found a way to create a chart and dump it to an image.
https://www.alkanesolutions.co.uk/2019/03/13/charting-with-powershell/
take this example above, and in the end instead of showdialog to open a page, just dump it to image, with this command:
$chart.SaveImage("c:\chartimage.png","png")

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Yes it's helpful. I saw this before and was playing with it - but https://github.com/dotnet/winforms-datavisualization is deprecated.

But I have an idea for it. Probably need to create a new PowerShell module - there goes my free time.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Actually, you can find the module using what you proposed https://github.com/iainbrighton/PScriboCharts