Chartjs-Saving ChartJS chart showing all tooltips

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Found a solution on my own.

I used the following plugin:

Chart.pluginService.register({
  beforeRender: function (chart) {
    if (chart.config.options.showAllTooltips) {
        // create an array of tooltips
        // we can't use the chart tooltip because there is only one tooltip per chart
        chart.pluginTooltips = [];
        chart.config.data.datasets.forEach(function (dataset, i) {
            chart.getDatasetMeta(i).data.forEach(function (sector, j) {
                chart.pluginTooltips.push(new Chart.Tooltip({
                    _chart: chart.chart,
                    _chartInstance: chart,
                    _data: chart.data,
                    _options: chart.options.tooltips,
                    _active: [sector]
                }, chart));
            });
        });

        // turn off normal tooltips
        chart.options.tooltips.enabled = false;
    }
},
  afterDraw: function (chart, easing) {
    if (chart.config.options.showAllTooltips) {
        // we don't want the permanent tooltips to animate, so don't do anything till the animation runs atleast once
        if (!chart.allTooltipsOnce) {
            if (easing !== 1)
                return;
            chart.allTooltipsOnce = true;
        }

        // turn on tooltips
        chart.options.tooltips.enabled = true;
        Chart.helpers.each(chart.pluginTooltips, function (tooltip) {
            tooltip.initialize();
            tooltip.update();
            // we don't actually need this since we are not animating tooltips
            tooltip.pivot();
            tooltip.transition(easing).draw();
        });
        chart.options.tooltips.enabled = false;
    }
  }
});

Additionally I used the following custom function to switch on all tooltips, download the chart and switch off all tooltips again:

function downloadChart1() {
    chart1.options.showAllTooltips = true;
    chart1.update(0, false);
    var returnString = $("#chart1")[0].toDataURL('image/png').replace("image/png", "image/octet-stream");
    $("#downloadChartPng1")[0].setAttribute("href", returnString);
    chart1.options.showAllTooltips = false;
    chart1.options.tooltips.enabled = true;
    chart1.update(0, false);
}

Then I used simply the following link to download the chart:

<a id="downloadChartPng1"
onClick="downloadChart1()"
title="picture"
download="chart_name.png">

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