Exporting Charts

Chartsmith charts can be saved in Chartsmith documents, saved in Keynote documents, saved as image files, printed or exported as images into other applications.

Saving Files and Printing Charts

Charts can be saved in files using the Save, Save As and Export Document menu items found in the Files menu. A Chart or range of charts may be printed using the Print... menu item. For more information on saving and printing, see their respective Help pages.

Exporting chart image files to the file system or to other applications


Charts can be saved as image files in two ways: dragging out of Chartsmith and dropping into a Finder folder or any other application that receives dragged images; or using the Export Image menu item in the Chart menu.

To drag an image out of Chartsmith, hold down the alt or command key and click in the chart. Upon doing so, an icon will appear for the image being exported. You can drag and drop this image into a folder in the Finder, creating an image file, or you can drag the image into another application. The alt key will result in a TIFF image, and the command key a PDF image. For TIFF images, the image resolution of the image is established by the setting in Preferences.

The Chart->Export Image menu item provides a means to save the chart to many different image formats. Select the menu item, then specify the image format at the base of the resulting panel, and save.  Image resolution and compression (where applicable) can also be set here.

Exporting chart images files to other applications (TIFF or PDF only) via Copy and Paste

In addition to dragging charts out of Chartsmith and dropping them into a receiving application (instead of into the Finder as described above), you can use the copy and paste paradigm to copy a chart image from your Chartsmith file and paste it into any application that receives image pastes. To copy a chart image, select a chart from the Navigator, then choose Edit->Copy. In the destination application, choose Edit->Paste and the image will be pasted. The format of the resulting image will be based on the choice of image formats made in the Preferences panel. If both TIFF and PDF are specified, then the receiving application will decide which format it prefers.