[PyKDE] Printing (General)

[Greg Fortune]

If you find something useful, I'd *love* to know.  I'm fighting the same sort 
of problem right now and ended up using QRichText and laying everything out 
in the psuedo html understood by Qt.  It works ok, but the html support isn't 
very comprehensive.

Greg

On Monday 10 March 2003 08:54 pm, Kenneth Godee wrote:
> Ok, since I still consider myself a newbee to
> PyQt maybe I'm missing something?
>
> 1. Line by Line printing at screen res. with single size font
> seems easy enough, oh, wait better make that the a fixed resolution
> because screen resolution can change from computer to computer.
> Results fair, but to plain to be usefull.
>
> 2. Other than that I can't seem to find ANY kind of report
> layout/generator. So what does everyone do to layout a page(s) with
> different fonts, font sizes, boxes etc., position each and every piece hand
> coded and postioned pixel by pixel? Thats the only way I can figure it out.
>
> 3. How do you add logos or art work at a higher resolutions(ie. 600dpi),
> 81dpi doesn't cut it. I tried scaling up, of coarse that doesn't work. I
> even tried creating a layout of something like 6,000 x 4,000 and adding
> 600dpi artwork, fonts at like 200 points and grabing the widget and
> printing at HiResolution(600dpi). It looked good but brought my 2ghz
> machine to a crawl even for a simple layout. I tried using Designer as a
> report layout designer and "grabbing" an instance of that even at 81dpi,
> but once it gets converted to a pixmap, even the normal size fonts get
> trashed.
>
> 4. I'll battle it out one way or the other, but maybe I'm missing
> something? I hate the thought of going to something like an external app
> and not staying with PyQt for report generation. I've looked at
> most(everyone I could find, anyway) of the external report generators and
> most don't look promising, if you just want to do direct printing and not
> PDF. I guess this is why some of these external programs can generate
> extreme pricing, for all the reasons above.
>
> What do some of the other people do to get clean reporting from
> PyQt. Or does anyone have any other report/generation/printing solutions.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
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>
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