GSoC Status - Week 7 (Customizable prints)

[Gehad Elrobey]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 13 July 2015 at 23:54, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >
> > 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).
>

Should I convert the dive profile to QImage during previewing only or
should I convert it during actual printing also which will affect the
printing quality?


-- 
regards,

Gehad
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