GSoC Status - Week 7 (Customizable prints)

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 13 July 2015 at 23:54, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 13 July 2015 at 22:35, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > This week I was working on the following tasks:
>> >
>> > - Enhancing the one dive per page template.
>> > - Refactoring the Printing class to handle QPrinter and QPixmap.
>> > - Implement the Preview section in "TemplateEdit" dialog.
>> > - Adding color tab to "TemplateEdit".
>> > - Adding color palettes to template settings.
>>
>> nice, i will take a look tomorrow.
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>> >
>> > This week I will mainly work to enhance the user experience and add
>> > remaining templates (eg. flow layout), Also I want to fix any bugs as
>> > soon
>> > as possible so testing the whole thing now can be very useful.
>> >
>> > I have done some work to fix the gray-scale issue in the dive profile, I
>> > have attached a picture of the dive profile after my progress, But there
>> > are
>> > still some dive profile items that I couldn't change to gray-scale (eg.
>> > numbers on the axis and the cylinder pressure curve), I also needed to
>> > change the QPixmaps to QImages and transformed them to gray-scale
>> > manually,
>> > So I am not sure If I am progressing in the correct direction regarding
>> > the
>> > dive profile gray-scale issue.
>> >
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>> at least a couple of times, i've said to approach the whole thing
>> using the "convert everything to greyscale via CSS" method.
>> mind that this is a feature that is not very important (not that many
>> "i want to print in greyscale" requests by users out there) and we
>> should attempt to save time by doing the easier solution. the approach
>> of "let's bring back the custom greyscale color table that was in
>> Profile1" is going to eat a lot time and is questionable as a
>> maintainable code-base feature, unless we decide to add customizable
>> user colors in the profile at some point.
>>
>> have you encountered problems with the CSS filter approach?
>>
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> As the dive profile is rendered on top of the QWebView after the Html page
> is already displayed. the css filtering will not affect the dive profile and
> will only affect the content of the HTML page, that's why I though I should
> render a gray scale version of the dive profile.
>

i forgot about that part.
in that case, use the CSS filtering on the QWebView page but also
convert the whole profile QImage/QPixmap to greyscale (not individual
profile item classes using the custom color table).

lubomir
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