[PyKDE] Printing (General)

[Greg Fortune]

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> Have you looked at QPrinter? I haven't actually used it that I can
> recall, but you should be able to lay out reports in QtDesigner and
> print them at higher dpi - at least that's what I get from
> reading the QPrinter docs.

Haven't tried working with QPrinter through Designer...  Take a look at the 
helpviewer example included with qt to get an idea for how to use it with 
QRichText.

>
> What I've done for printing forms (invoices, purchase orders,
> packing lists, etc) is use ReportLab which is a Python PDF
> generator. The way I used it is probably at a lower level than
> you're looking for, however I think they have some higher level
> stuff too. I don't have a URL handy, but a search on "ReportLab"

http://www.reportlab.com

> should turn it up pretty quickly. I wouldn't necessarily call it
> 'easy' though.

I ended up using this on the last app I worked on and I must agree.  It's not 
terribly easy to use, but it does work well.  My biggest complaint is that it 
generates PDF files and I wanted to print stuff from inside my app rather 
than just saving a PDF file to be printed later.  I had some nasty 
os.system() stuff on the Linux side, but never figured out anything useful on 
the Windows side.  I may have just missed something though...

I do have a little code (circa 2.5 years ago) that works with the current 
version of reportlab that you're free to dig through.

Greg