Printing Support - brainstorm.

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> Heya.
>
> let's brainstorm a bit. :)
> The current way that lubomir programmed the Printing support seems to be a
> no-go because it's damn-slow.
> the problem seems to be with QTextDocument parsing of HTML, but if we use
> QTextCursor to manipulate the QTextDocument, the time goes down from 15s to
> 2, with is mostly-acceptable. *but* that broke CSS. I'v tried to follow Qt
> guidelines on QTextDocument but that was unfruitfull - the doc seems to be
> wrong there ( or I didn't understand what it was saying, and since english
> is not my first language this is always a possibility. )
>
> So I researched a bit on how people do 'Table-based printing' and
> discovered that they usually get a QTableView and send it to print, simple
> as that. That however doesn
>
Sorry - send it without finished. -
that however doesn't do one thing well - correct table layouting per page,
with a nice heading and such.

But there is a digia website that explained how to do it in a good way:
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/08/24/qt-commercial-support-weekly-25-printing-large-tables-2/

The full code is for commercial guests, but that already gave me a few
hints on how to do.

Lubomir, since you are the one that tackled single-handed the Printing
issue, what do you think about the blog post that I pasted here?

Tomaz
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