Saving higher resolution charts without messing up the appearance

Question

you\'ll all have to excuse my ignorance as I have only recently started working with C#. I just have a question about the windows chart control, as I\'m encountering a rathe

Answer 1

Here's a class I made to make a larger graph, save it, then restore the graph. Works well for my my purposes.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using OfficeOpenXml.Drawing;
using OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Simple_Grapher
{
    class saveQualityChartImage
    {
        Chart theChart;
        System.Drawing.Font oldFont1 = new System.Drawing.Font("Trebuchet MS", 35F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);
        System.Drawing.Font oldFont2 = new System.Drawing.Font("Trebuchet MS", 15F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);
        System.Drawing.Font oldFont3 = new System.Drawing.Font("Trebuchet MS", 35F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);
        System.Drawing.Font oldLegendFont = new System.Drawing.Font("Trebuchet MS", 35F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);

        int oldLineWidth1;
        int oldLineWidth2;
        int oldLineWidth3;
        int oldLineWidth4;

        int oldWidth;
        int oldHeight;
        public saveQualityChartImage(Chart inputChart)
        {
            if (!(inputChart.Series.Count > 0))
            {
                return;
            }
            theChart = inputChart;
            if (inputChart.Titles.Count > 0)
            {
                oldFont1 = inputChart.Titles[0].Font;
            }
            oldFont2 = inputChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LabelStyle.Font;
            oldFont3 = inputChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.TitleFont;
            if (theChart.Legends.Count > 0)
            {
                oldLegendFont = theChart.Legends["Legend"].Font;
            }
            oldLineWidth1 = theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineWidth;
            oldLineWidth2 = theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorTickMark.LineWidth;
            oldLineWidth3 = theChart.Series[0].BorderWidth;
            oldLineWidth4 = theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorGrid.LineWidth;
            oldWidth = theChart.Width;
            oldHeight = theChart.Height;

            saveimage();
        }

        public void saveimage()
        {
            theChart.Visible = false;
            System.Drawing.Font chtFont = new System.Drawing.Font("Trebuchet MS", 35F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);
            System.Drawing.Font smallFont = new System.Drawing.Font("Trebuchet MS", 15F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);
            if (theChart.Titles.Count > 0)
            {
                theChart.Titles[0].Font = chtFont;
            }

            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.TitleFont = chtFont;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineWidth = 3;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorGrid.LineWidth = 3;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LabelStyle.Font = smallFont;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorTickMark.LineWidth = 3;

            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.TitleFont = chtFont;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.LineWidth = 3;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorGrid.LineWidth = 3;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.LabelStyle.Font = smallFont;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorTickMark.LineWidth = 3;
            if (theChart.Legends.Count > 0)
            {
                theChart.Legends["Legend"].Font = smallFont;
            }


            foreach (Series series in theChart.Series)
            {
                series.BorderWidth = 3;

            }

            theChart.Width = 1800;
            theChart.Height = 1200;

            SaveFileDialog save = new SaveFileDialog();
            save.DefaultExt = ".png";
            if (save.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                theChart.SaveImage(save.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Png);
            }
            resetOldValues();

        }

        private void resetOldValues()
        {
            if (theChart.Titles.Count > 0)
            {
                theChart.Titles[0].Font = oldFont1;
            }

            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.TitleFont = oldFont3;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineWidth = oldLineWidth1;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorGrid.LineWidth = oldLineWidth4;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LabelStyle.Font = oldFont2;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorTickMark.LineWidth = oldLineWidth2;

            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.TitleFont = oldFont3;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.LineWidth = oldLineWidth1;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorGrid.LineWidth = oldLineWidth4;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.LabelStyle.Font = oldFont2;
            theChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorTickMark.LineWidth = oldLineWidth2;
            if (theChart.Legends.Count > 0)
            {
                theChart.Legends["Legend"].Font = oldLegendFont;
            }



            foreach (Series series in theChart.Series)
            {
                series.BorderWidth = oldLineWidth3;

            }

            theChart.Width = oldWidth;
            theChart.Height = oldHeight;
            theChart.Visible = true;   
        }  
    }
}