// Let's create a mock visualization
var width = 300, height = 300;
var circleSizeMax = 15;
var rMax = Math.min(width,height)/2 - circleSizeMax;
var radius  = d3.scale.linear().range([0,rMax]);
var angle  = d3.scale.linear().range([0,2*Math.PI]);
var size  = d3.scale.linear().range([0,circleSizeMax]);
var color  = d3.scale.ordinal().range(['#fcfb3c','#fcf900','#ff825a','#ffd2cb','#71d362','#ffd16f','#ff3d5d','#ff7218','#04b3f3','#bce5ac','#6e0215','#69D2E7','#A7DBDB','#E0E4CC','#F38630','#E94C6F','#542733','#5A6A62','#C6D5CD','#DB3340','#E8B71A','#F7EAC8','#1FDA9A','#588C73','#F2E394','#F2AE72','#D96459','#D0C91F','#85C4B9','#008BBA','#DF514C','#00C8F8','#59C4C5','#FFC33C','#FBE2B4','#5E412F','#FCEBB6','#78C0A8','#F07818','#DE4D4E','#DA4624','#DE593A','#FFD041','#B1EB00','#53BBF4','#FF85CB','#FF432E','#354458','#3A9AD9','#29ABA4','#E9E0D6','#4298B5','#ADC4CC','#92B06A','#E19D29','#BCCF02','#5BB12F','#73C5E1','#9B539C','#FFA200','#00A03E','#24A8AC','#0087CB','#260126','#59323C','#F2EEB3','#BFAF80','#BFF073','#0DC9F7','#7F7F7F','#F05B47','#3B3A35','#20457C','#5E3448','#FB6648','#E45F56','#A3D39C','#7ACCC8','#4AAAA5','#DC2742','#AFA577','#ABA918','#8BAD39','#F2671F','#C91B26','#9C0F5F','#60047A','#0F5959','#17A697','#638CA6','#8FD4D9','#83AA30','#1499D3','#4D6684','#3D3D3D','#333333','#424242','#00CCD6','#EFEFEF','#CCC51C','#FFE600','#F05A28','#B9006E','#F17D80','#737495','#68A8AD','#C4D4AF']);
var x = function(d) { return radius( d.r ) * Math.cos( angle( d.angle ) ); };
var y = function(d) { return radius( d.r ) * Math.sin( angle( d.angle ) ); };
var svg = d3.select('body').append('svg')
 .attr('width', width)
 .attr('height',height);
var chart = svg.append('g').attr('transform','translate('+[width/2,height/2]+')');
var data = d3.range(150).map( function(d) { return {r: Math.random(), angle: Math.random(), size: Math.random() }; });
chart.selectAll('cirle')
 .data(data).enter()
 .append('circle')
 .attr('class','blendCircle')
 .attr({
  cx: x,
  cy: y,
  r: function(d) { return size(d.size); },
  fill: function(d,i) { return color(i); }
 });
// Set-up the export button
d3.select('#saveButton').on('click', function(){
 var svgString = getSVGString(svg.node());
 svgString2Image( svgString, 2*width, 2*height, 'png', save ); // passes Blob and filesize String to the callback
 function save( dataBlob, filesize ){
  saveAs( dataBlob, 'D3 vis exported to PNG.png' ); // FileSaver.js function
 }
});
// Below are the functions that handle actual exporting:
// getSVGString ( svgNode ) and svgString2Image( svgString, width, height, format, callback )
function getSVGString( svgNode ) {
 svgNode.setAttribute('xlink', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink');
 var cssStyleText = getCSSStyles( svgNode );
 appendCSS( cssStyleText, svgNode );
 var serializer = new XMLSerializer();
 var svgString = serializer.serializeToString(svgNode);
 svgString = svgString.replace(/(\w+)?:?xlink=/g, 'xmlns:xlink='); // Fix root xlink without namespace
 svgString = svgString.replace(/NS\d+:href/g, 'xlink:href'); // Safari NS namespace fix
 return svgString;
 function getCSSStyles( parentElement ) {
  var selectorTextArr = [];
  // Add Parent element Id and Classes to the list
  selectorTextArr.push( '#'+parentElement.id );
  for (var c = 0; c < parentElement.classList.length; c++)
    if ( !contains('.'+parentElement.classList[c], selectorTextArr) )
     selectorTextArr.push( '.'+parentElement.classList[c] );
  // Add Children element Ids and Classes to the list
  var nodes = parentElement.getElementsByTagName("*");
  for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
   var id = nodes[i].id;
   if ( !contains('#'+id, selectorTextArr) )
    selectorTextArr.push( '#'+id );
   var classes = nodes[i].classList;
   for (var c = 0; c < classes.length; c++)
    if ( !contains('.'+classes[c], selectorTextArr) )
     selectorTextArr.push( '.'+classes[c] );
  }
  // Extract CSS Rules
  var extractedCSSText = "";
  for (var i = 0; i < document.styleSheets.length; i++) {
   var s = document.styleSheets[i];
   
   try {
       if(!s.cssRules) continue;
   } catch( e ) {
        if(e.name !== 'SecurityError') throw e; // for Firefox
        continue;
       }
   var cssRules = s.cssRules;
   for (var r = 0; r < cssRules.length; r++) {
    if ( contains( cssRules[r].selectorText, selectorTextArr ) )
     extractedCSSText += cssRules[r].cssText;
   }
  }
  
  return extractedCSSText;
  function contains(str,arr) {
   return arr.indexOf( str ) === -1 ? false : true;
  }
 }
 function appendCSS( cssText, element ) {
  var styleElement = document.createElement("style");
  styleElement.setAttribute("type","text/css"); 
  styleElement.innerHTML = cssText;
  var refNode = element.hasChildNodes() ? element.children[0] : null;
  element.insertBefore( styleElement, refNode );
 }
}
function svgString2Image( svgString, width, height, format, callback ) {
 var format = format ? format : 'png';
 var imgsrc = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,'+ btoa( unescape( encodeURIComponent( svgString ) ) ); // Convert SVG string to data URL
 var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
 var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
 canvas.width = width;
 canvas.height = height;
 var image = new Image();
 image.onload = function() {
  context.clearRect ( 0, 0, width, height );
  context.drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height);
  canvas.toBlob( function(blob) {
   var filesize = Math.round( blob.length/1024 ) + ' KB';
   if ( callback ) callback( blob, filesize );
  });
  
 };
 image.src = imgsrc;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
 <title>How to properly export SVG D3 visualization to PNG or JPEG</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/eligrey/canvas-toBlob.js/f1a01896135ab378aa5c0118eadd81da55e698d8/canvas-toBlob.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/e9d941381475b5df8b7d7691013401e171014e89/FileSaver.min.js"></script>
 <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
  <style type="text/css">
   .blendCircle {
    mix-blend-mode: multiply;
   }
  </style>
 </head>
<body>
<div>
<button id='saveButton'>Export my D3 visualization to PNG</button>
</div>
</body>
</html>