Customizable Print Formats GSoC 2015

[Robert Helling]

Hi,

> On 06.03.2015, at 00:52, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I managed to print a QTextDocument directly after generating the HTML code by Grantlee with Qt5.
> I attached a pdf of the print out.

as I said, my worry is not so much that you can use templates to generate some html. I am concerned that the Qt subset of html is not expressive enough to produce decent layouts beyond simple tables. To get an idea what people’s paper divelogs look like in the wild, do a google image search for “dive log template”. Compared to what we have now, we need much better control over spacing (inclunding whitespace, there we currently waste far too much precious room on the paper), fields for which we don’t have information should in many cases not be displayed and the room be used for what we actually have etc. For me, for example, beyond the very basic information (date, depth, time, location, buddy), the notes are by far the most important textual element and should occupy sufficient room (in a decent font size).

So, I think what the first natural step would be, is to use some html editor or similar to produce any layout or mock-up which looks good enough on paper that we can then try to reproduce from within Qt, just for fixed data. If that turns out to be impossible we will have to look for something better.

Just my $.02.

Best
Robert



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