--- a/client/src/components/gauge/Waterlevel.vue	Thu Jul 04 11:15:05 2019 +0200
+++ b/client/src/components/gauge/Waterlevel.vue	Thu Jul 04 11:21:59 2019 +0200
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 import debounce from "debounce";
 import svg2pdf from "svg2pdf.js";
 import { saveAs } from "file-saver";
-import { pdfgen } from "@/lib/mixins";
+import { pdfgen, templateLoader } from "@/lib/mixins";
 import { HTTP } from "@/lib/http";
 import { displayError } from "@/lib/errors";
 // we should load only d3 modules we need but for now we'll go with the lazy way
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
 const d3 = Object.assign(d3Base, { lineChunked });
 
 export default {
-  mixins: [pdfgen],
+  mixins: [pdfgen, templateLoader],
   components: {
     DiagramLegend: () => import("@/components/DiagramLegend")
   },
@@ -271,49 +271,16 @@
         return;
       }
       if (this.form.template) {
-        HTTP.get("/templates/diagram/" + this.form.template.name, {
-          headers: {
-            "X-Gemma-Auth": localStorage.getItem("token"),
-            "Content-type": "text/xml; charset=UTF-8"
-          }
-        })
+        this.loadTemplates("/templates/diagram/" + this.form.template.name)
           .then(response => {
-            /**
-             * In order to render the images from the template, we need to convert
-             * each image to dataURIs. Since this happens asynchronous,
-             * we need to wrap each image into its own promise and only after all are
-             * finished, we continue with the flow.
-             */
-            const imageElementLoaders = response.data.template_data.elements.reduce(
-              (o, n, i) => {
-                if (n.type === "image") {
-                  o.push(
-                    new Promise(resolve => {
-                      const image = new Image();
-                      image.onload = function() {
-                        var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
-                        canvas.width = this.naturalWidth; // or 'width' if you want a special/scaled size
-                        canvas.height = this.naturalHeight; // or 'height' if you want a special/scaled size
-                        canvas.getContext("2d").drawImage(this, 0, 0);
-                        resolve({
-                          index: i,
-                          url: canvas.toDataURL("image/png")
-                        });
-                      };
-                      image.src = n.url;
-                    })
-                  );
-                }
-                return o;
-              },
-              []
+            this.prepareImages(response.data.template_data.elements).then(
+              values => {
+                values.forEach(v => {
+                  response.data.template_data.elements[v.index].url = v.url;
+                });
+                this.templateData = response.data.template_data;
+              }
             );
-            Promise.all(imageElementLoaders).then(values => {
-              values.forEach(v => {
-                response.data.template_data.elements[v.index].url = v.url;
-              });
-              this.templateData = response.data.template_data;
-            });
           })
           .catch(e => {
             const { status, data } = e.response;