Charts As Image/Svg

View model

using CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.ComponentModel;
using LiveChartsCore;
using LiveChartsCore.Geo;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Drawing.Geometries;

namespace ViewModelsSamples.General.ChartToImage;

public partial class ViewModel : ObservableObject
{
    public ISeries[] CatesianSeries { get; set; } =
    {
        new LineSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 1, 5, 4, 6 } },
        new ColumnSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 4, 8, 2, 4 } }
    };

    public ISeries[] PieSeries { get; set; } =
    {
        new PieSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 10, } },
        new PieSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 6 } },
        new PieSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 4 } }
    };

    public IGeoSeries[] GeoSeries { get; set; } = new HeatLandSeries[]
    {
        new()
        {
            Lands = new HeatLand[]
            {
                new() { Name = "bra", Value = 13 },
                new() { Name = "mex", Value = 10 },
                new() { Name = "usa", Value = 15 },
                new() { Name = "can", Value = 8 },
                new() { Name = "ind", Value = 12 },
                new() { Name = "deu", Value = 13 },
                new() { Name= "jpn", Value = 15 },
                new() { Name = "chn", Value = 14 },
                new() { Name = "rus", Value = 11 },
                new() { Name = "fra", Value = 8 },
                new() { Name = "esp", Value = 7 },
                new() { Name = "kor", Value = 10 },
                new() { Name = "zaf", Value = 12 },
                new() { Name = "are", Value = 13 }
            }
        }
    };
}

Having the previous data (ViewModel), we add 3 charts to the UI, a CartesianChart, a PieChart and a GeoMap.

using Eto.Forms;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.SKCharts;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Eto;
using ViewModelsSamples.General.ChartToImage;

namespace EtoFormsSample.General.ChartToImage;

public class View : Panel
{
    private readonly CartesianChart _cartesian;
    private readonly PieChart _pie;
    private readonly GeoMap _map;

    public View()
    {
        var viewModel = new ViewModel();

        // Adding a cartesian chart to the UI...
        _cartesian = new CartesianChart
        {
            Series = viewModel.CatesianSeries,
        };

        // Adding a pie chart to the UI...
        _pie = new PieChart
        {
            Series = viewModel.PieSeries,
        };

        // Adding a map chart to the UI...
        _map = new GeoMap
        {
            Series = viewModel.GeoSeries,
        };

        Content = new DynamicLayout(
            new DynamicRow(new DynamicControl() { Control = _cartesian, YScale = true }),
            new DynamicRow(new DynamicControl() { Control = _pie, YScale = true }),
            new DynamicRow(new DynamicControl() { Control = _map, YScale = true }));

        // now lets create the images // mark
        CreateImageFromCartesianControl(); // mark
        CreateImageFromPieControl(); // mark
        CreateImageFromGeoControl(); // mark
    }

    private void CreateImageFromCartesianControl()
    {
        // you can take any chart in the UI, and build an image from it // mark
        var chartControl = _cartesian;
        var skChart = new SKCartesianChart(chartControl) { Width = 900, Height = 600, };
        skChart.SaveImage("CartesianImageFromControl.png");
    }

    private void CreateImageFromPieControl()
    {
        var chartControl = _pie;
        var skChart = new SKPieChart(chartControl) { Width = 900, Height = 600, };
        skChart.SaveImage("PieImageFromControl.png");
    }

    private void CreateImageFromGeoControl()
    {
        var chartControl = _map;
        var skChart = new SKGeoMap(chartControl) { Width = 900, Height = 600, };
        skChart.SaveImage("MapImageFromControl.png");
    }
}

You will get the following plot in the UI.

Build an image in the server side or console app

LiveCharts can render images without the need of any UI framework, you can build images in the server side or in a console application as far as you install the SkiaSharp view package, it is available from NuGet:

LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView

The next code block build a CartesianChart, a PieChart and a GeoMap chart as images, to reproduce this sample create a new ConsoleApplication in VisualStudio 2022, select .Net 6.0 as the framework.

Finally build the images in the Program.cs file.

using LiveChartsCore;
using LiveChartsCore.Drawing;
using LiveChartsCore.Geo;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Drawing.Geometries;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Painting;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.SKCharts;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.VisualElements;
using SkiaSharp;

var cartesianChart = new SKCartesianChart
{
    Width = 900,
    Height = 600,
    Series = new ISeries[]
    {
        new LineSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 1, 5, 4, 6 } },
        new ColumnSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 4, 8, 2, 4 } }
    },
    Title = new LabelVisual
    {
        Text = "Hello LiveCharts",
        TextSize = 30,
        Padding = new Padding(15),
        Paint = new SolidColorPaint(0xff303030)
    },
    LegendPosition = LiveChartsCore.Measure.LegendPosition.Right,
    Background = SKColors.White
};

// you can save the image to png (by default)
// or use the second argument to specify another format.
cartesianChart.SaveImage("cartesianChart.png");

// additionally you can save a chart as svg:
// for more info see: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp/blob/main/tests/Tests/SKCanvasTest.cs#L396
using var stream = new MemoryStream();
var svgCanvas = SKSvgCanvas.Create(SKRect.Create(cartesianChart.Width, cartesianChart.Height), stream);
cartesianChart.DrawOnCanvas(svgCanvas);
svgCanvas.Dispose(); // <- dispose it before using the stream, otherwise the svg could not be completed.

stream.Position = 0;
using var fs = new FileStream("cartesianChart.svg", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
stream.CopyTo(fs);

// you can also save the image of any other charts:
var pieChart = new SKPieChart
{
    Width = 900,
    Height = 600,
    Series = new ISeries[]
    {
        new PieSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 10, } },
        new PieSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 6 } },
        new PieSeries<int> { Values = new int[] { 4 } }
    },
    LegendPosition = LiveChartsCore.Measure.LegendPosition.Right
};

pieChart.SaveImage("pieChart.png");

var geoHeatMap = new SKGeoMap
{
    Width = 900,
    Height = 600,
    Series = new IGeoSeries[]
    {
        new HeatLandSeries
        {
            Lands = new HeatLand[]
            {
                new() { Name = "mex", Value = 10 },
                new() { Name = "usa", Value = 15 },
                new() { Name = "can", Value = 8 }
            }
        }
    }
};

geoHeatMap.SaveImage("geoHeatMap.png");

// alternatively you can get the image and do different operations:
using var image = cartesianChart.GetImage();
using var data = image.Encode();
var base64CartesianChart = Convert.ToBase64String(data.AsSpan());

Console.WriteLine("Images saved at the root folder!");