Customizable Print Formats GSoC 2015

Thu Mar 5 08:55:21 PST 2015

On 4 March 2015 at 16:31, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 4 March 2015 at 16:05, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
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>> >> also, i don't understand Tomaz' idea about the Grantlee extension, so
>> >> perhaps we need to investigate into that as well.
>> >> it probably uses QTableView Qt's Model-View-X pattern, which i don't
>> >> like that much, yet Subsurface already uses it pretty much everywhere!
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>> > Grantlee *is* a HTML + CSS template engine that integrates with Qt.
>> > it follows Django template scheme, so it's very flexible and easy to
>> > extend
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>> yep, i did gather that previously.
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>> > for instance, we could do something like this in grantlee:
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>> > template.html
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>> > <header> ... </header>
>> > <body>
>> >    < h1 > {{ dive.where }} </h1>
>> >    < h2 > {{ dive.buddy }} </h2>
>> > </body>
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>> > ( yes, very short example )
>> >
>> > and let the grantlee template system do it's magic.
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>> i don't understand what the output of Grantlee template generator is;
>> is it a data model for a QTableView that then can be rendered to an
>> image, is it an image, or something else?
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> an html file. nothing more than this.
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so for the built-in printing, i assume we need to load the file (/text
?) into a rendering entity like QTextDocument or QWebPage and then
produce a QPicture / QPixmap that can be fed to QPrinter?
do you think that QTextDocument will suffice or WebKit will be needed?
from what i tested at some point the built-in HTML subset wasn't
optimal for more complicated input.

lubomir
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