latest AppImage - getting closer

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 11 November 2017 at 21:02, Willem Ferguson
<willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
> I forgot to provide the console output when trying to print from the
> AppImage.
> Here it is in case it gives any useful information.
>
> QPainter::begin(): Returned false
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
> QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
> QPainter::pen: Painter not active
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::save: Painter not active
> QPainter::setClipRect: Painter not active
> QPainter::translate: Painter not active
> QPainter::translate: Painter not active
> QPainter::setClipRect: Painter not active
> QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
> QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
> QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
> QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
> QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
> QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted
>
> Printing to PDF does not produce any console output.
>
>

seems that the AppImage binary cannot obtain a hardcopy printer as a
QPainter target.

this thread suggests that the print support plugin might be missing:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/subsurface/15fa9ebc5da7a3dd

"I solved this problem by copying the
"<QtDir>\5.3\msvc2013\plugins\printsupport" folder in to exe
directory."

lubomir
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