2 messages in com.googlegroups.google-chart-apiRe: Couple of thoughts
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Doug Tabacco14 Dec 2007 18:49 
tk15 Dec 2007 22:40 
Subject:Re: Couple of thoughts
From:tk (tkh@gmail.com)
Date:12/15/2007 10:40:22 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-chart-api

I did a quick test and transparency seems to work fine for me here on Firefox. Are you by any chance using IE 6?

Maybe they should add line break support for pie chart labels as well. That should solve the problem with labels.

On Dec 15, 10:49 am, Doug Tabacco <taba@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there! I just found this API and tried it out, and figured I'd share a couple of thoughts I had. A quick search didn't turn any of these up, but I may also have missed something. Sorry if that's the case.

Background transparency doesn't seem to be an option even though PNG is the output format. For example, it seems like "chf=bg,s,00000000" should output a completely transparent background, but it's actually just white.

Pie charts don't take labels into account when they're scaled to fit the image. I can make a chart that has long labels that just get cropped off by the end of the image. For now I've gotten around that by making the image shorter to force everything inward, but it'd be nice if scaling were fully automatic.

Apart from those two things, though, this is incredible useful.