latest AppImage - getting closer

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Nov 11 13:04:41 PST 2017


Simon,

this looks interesting below...

> On Nov 11, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 tends to build on Windows and natively, but is there a similar
plugin that we may be missing in the AppImage?

/D


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