#160: Printing

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 9 July 2013 18:43, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9 July 2013 18:19, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 12:02 -0300, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>         ok, i will keep you folks up to date on with the printing
> >> >>         progress.
> >> >>         as a side note (and AFAIK) it seems that Qt does not allow a
> >> >>         custom
> >> >>         tab in the print dialog. so what i'm doing right now is
> create
> >> >>         a
> >> >>         custom print QDialog with all options that calls another
> >> >>         dialog
> >> >>         (QPrintDialog) with the hardware settings. found the
> >> >>         suggestion at
> >> >>         stackoverflow.com..
> >> >>
> >> >> Well, this is not "Qt" fault per se, it happens because of this:
> >> >> "On Windows and Mac OS X, the native print dialog is used, which
> means
> >> >> that some QWidget and QDialog properties set on the dialog won't be
> >> >> respected. The native print dialog on Mac OS X does not support
> >> >> setting printer options, i.e. setOptions() and setOption() have no
> >> >> effect."
> >> >
> >> > Hmm - that sucks. So maybe we need a dialog BEFORE the print dialog is
> >> > called?
> >> > How are other Qt programs deal with this?
> >
> >
> > I'm a bit lost here because I never printed anything till today - but
> let's
> > discuss this a bit:
> > why a separate print dialog is needed before the OS one is called? is
> that
> > because we need
> > to do a 'page setup' before?
> > if so, there's a QPageSetupDialog for that.
> > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qpagesetupdialog.html
> >
>
> we pretty much had this in GTK (see attachment).
> so i drew the conclusion that a separate dialog is needed for the
> application specific settings.
>
> QPageSetupDialog seems to be the standard (native) page setup that most OS
> have?
>

Yes, that.

We can also disable the QPrintDialog and do our own dialog that setups the
printer,
I think this is what most ( not just Qt apps ) apps do on windows ( adobe
apps are
way different than corel, that are way different than firefox, etc.
everything is a bit different
and nobody uses the default printer anyhow. )

A Easy way is to 'hijack' the QPrinterDialog for unix, fork it, and made it
default for every other system.

Tomaz


> lubomir
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