How to start a new page in PDF?
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Hi all,
In my project I'm usign QTextEdit object to write data in it and QPrinter object to write all the data resides in the QTextEdit to a PDF file. Problem is about tables, I can add tables to QTextEdit, however, when QPrint is writing them to file it can seperate tables to 2 pages. In example, lets say there is a table with 10 rows and the cursor is located somewhere near to the bottom of the first page. When QPrinter tries to write the table, it writes first 2 rows to the end of the first page and writes other rows to the following (here is second) page. But I want to write 1 table for 1 page. How can I add something like page seperator (or something like new page)?
Here is writer portion of the code
@QPrinter printer;
printer.setFullPage(true);
printer.setPaperSize(QPrinter::A4);
printer.setOrientation(QPrinter::Portrait);
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
printer.setOutputFileName(file_path);
textEdit->document()->print(&printer);@Regards.
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Triggering the printer to start a new page is easy: simply call printer::newPage().
Making QTextEdit do that at the moment you want it to is a completely different, and much more complicated issue. QTextEdit is really focussed on doing a layout of a document as a single page. We ended up not using it for our reporting needs and instead implemented our own report engine based on QML templates.
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Hi Andre,
Thanks for your reply. I've solved the problem by using a QPainter object. -
Hi canavaroski,
I have the similar problem and I am stuck from last 4 days.
Pease tell me where I'm going wrong. here is my coding for converting html to pdf.
Thanking you in advance..!!app = QApplication(sys.argv)
web = QWebView()
web.load(QUrl("file:///home/reshma/workspace/demo/output/filPlateReport.html"))printer = QPrinter()
printer = QPrinter(QPrinterInfo.defaultPrinter(),QPrinter.HighResolution) # QtGui.QPrinter(QtGui.QPrinter.HighResolution)
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
printer.newPage()printer.setOrientation(QPrinter.Portrait)
printer.setPageSize(QPrinter.A4)
printer.setPageMargins (10,10,10,10,QPrinter.Millimeter)printer.setFullPage(False)
printer.setColorMode(QPrinter.Color)printer.setOutputFileName("output/Report.pdf")
def convertIt():
web.print_(printer)
print "Pdf Generated"
QApplication.exit()
QObject.connect(web, SIGNAL("loadFinished(bool)"),convertIt)sys.exit(app.exec_())
