Prototype for customizable printing support.

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 16 April 2015 at 01:14, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As we are approaching gsoc community bonding period so I thought that a
> small prototype may be the best way to discuss my thoughts with the
> community.
> I sent a group of patches with a very small but full working prototype.
>
> - I added Grantlee library to subsurface code base (thanks for the cmake
> build environment it made my life much easier as I don't know qmake at all)
> - I create a simple Grantlee template that prints two dives per page.
> - the TemplateLayout class iterates the selected dives and interface with
> Grantlee backend.
> - QWebview and QPainter are used to render the html file living in a
> QTemporaryFile object.
> - finally I added the "print using templates" option in the print dialog.
>
> Note: I tested this on Linux only, so there may be problems on other
> platforms.
> also many exceptions still need to be handled this is only a fast prototype
> for discussion.
>
> So you may test this and tell me what do you think?
>

cool, will test that as soon as i get the cmake setup and grantlee working.

lubomir
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