[patch] Prettier printing

[Patrick Valsecchi]

I don't know why you have vector graphics. If I look at the generated 
PDF, nothing is vector. It's just bitmaps with higher resolution, at 
least when compiled with Qt 4.9.0.

What I get with un-modified subsurface:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/secerihiarmzioe/originalPrint.pdf

What I get with my patch:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l13r12c0o43ewpj/newPrint.pdf

Download them if you want to see something. Dropbox's view doesn't allow 
you to zoom. Then, with your favorite PDF viewer, if you try to select 
some text, you'll see that you cannot. It's all bitmap.

Maybe with Qt5, they made some progress and some stuff gets printed as 
vectors. Good. But at least, with my patch we have something that is not 
as pixelated as before... which had only a width of 600 pixels for the 
whole profile.

What is the official Qt version we support?

On 10/15/2013 12:25 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 15 October 2013 11:57, Patrick Valsecchi <patrick at thus.ch> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch improves the quality of the profile printing. Way less
>> pixelisation.
>>
> to follow up with a little bit of discussion here.
>
> Patrick, i like the change direction because if we skip the QPixmap
> step we can render the profile in vector and that's pretty much what
> we want.
> but the question here is - why can't we render() a QTableView in vector.
>
> for the Qt savvy crew:
> i think i recall vector output when using QTableView::render() with
> Qt5. any ideas why we get raster with Qt4?
>
> for the PM crew:
> is it acceptable to have the profile in vector, while tables remain in
> raster on a print? to me it look kind of odd.
> currently we render everything in raster which should look good at
> 100% print size, but then there is the issue if users want to take
> screenshots from a print preview or PDF.
>
> lubomir
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