[trac at hohndel.org: [Subsurface-trac] [Subsurface] #671: Table print selected dives prints a blank page]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 01:17:22AM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> >  Using Windows 7 "Table Print" with "print only selected dives" printing
> >  less then 35 dives on 8.5" by 11" paper in Portrait the paper comes out
> >  blank.  The Print preview also shows the paper as blank. 34 dives is
> >  exactly one page, anything over one page prints just fine. After a little
> >  bit of experimentation I believe that anything any amount of dives that
> >  fits on one page or less will print blank regardless paper or orientation.
> > \
> 
> trying the beta 4 win32 installer (Qt4) i can reproduce the bug that
> the user describes.
> with the local Qt5.2 build the bug is gone.
> 
> in general, the code does not have such "logic" to print a page or less.
> based on a speculation, here is a patch that disables the vector print
> for <Qt5.0 but i don't have the build setup to test it with Qt4.*
> after seeing these strange offsets that i had to insert previously to
> make the table vector, i really do suspect some QPicture bugs.

I SO want to fix that stupid Qt5 build issue. It used to work and now it
doesn't :-(

Maybe I'll work on that some more over the weekend. An hour of poking at
it today didn't result in any progress :-(

/D