Customizable Print Formats GSoC 2015

[Gehad Elrobey]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6 March 2015 at 01:52, 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.
> >
> >
>
> great,
> you also try to render it in a QWebPage if you want to test that out.
>
>
I have tried to render a simple flow layout with QWebPage with Grantlee
backend on Qt5, and the results seem ok I could even use some css3 effects
and it rendered correctly. I attached a pdf with the output.


> based on experiments from a couple of years ago, i'm 90% sure that we
> are going to need WebKit (i.e. via QWebPage) rendering to suit our
> needs!
> QTextDocument is a bit limited.
>
> also it would be nice to spark some discussions by doing a UI mockup,
> which is my biggest concern ATM:
> - what are going to present to the user in terms of UI / dialogs etc,
> i assume we can start with a text box for the Grantlee template
> generator input
> - how are we going to interface the table / profile separation and
> options - would a couple of Grantlee separate templates work for that
> (one for the table print, one for the profile + table print).
> - NxM layouts?
> - profile on top / table on bottom
> - etc...
>
> what we should aim for is to pretty much replicate what we have ATM in
> terms of printing (as the default template / option, if you will),
> while enabling customization.
>
> lubomir
> --
>



-- 
regards,
Gehad
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