Customizable Print Formats GSoC 2015

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 6 March 2015 at 17:20, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 6, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 6 March 2015 at 13:13, Robert Helling <helling at atdotde.de> wrote:
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>>> On 06.03.2015, at 10:31, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
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>>> As far as i can understand http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtWebEngine , Qt's
>>> html renderer is based on chromium so i don't think its lacking any
>>> bells and whistles.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am glad to hear that. Still we need it to describe a printed page rather
>>> (with elements to grow/shrink to fit paper sizes etc) than an page in a web
>>> browser. As a start, I just tried to produce some simple example with
>>> LibreOfficeWriter and save that as html but the output is not even close to
>>> the way the document looked.
>>>
>>
>> yeah, HTML is really only well fit for web browsers and as everyone
>> knows when you print a web-page it may look *a bit* different in terms
>> of layout / scaling etc.
>> we are going to need some experiments with Grantlee and a renderer
>> (e.g. WebKit) to see to what extent we can get it to be WYSIWYG.
>
> That, to me, is the way to go.
> It might not be pixel perfect rendering. But we should be able to get something
> that gets people roughly what they want. I made this a GSoC idea for a reason.
> This is perfect for a student to work on. The underlying programming and tools
> are not too complicated, the math / logic is not too complicated, but it will take
> patience and some trial and error to get this mostly right.
>

any comments on my idea earlier in this thread to expose the Grantlee
templates per dive as a backend so that both for the social network
share and the printing can use them?
it complicates things and goes outside of the GSoC printing idea scope, though.

lubomir
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