Printing a simple pdf

[jsulm]

@LT-K101 Take a look at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtprintsupport-index.html
To write to PDF see: https://wiki.qt.io/Exporting_a_document_to_PDF

[LT-K101]

@jsulm The documentation is in C++ I tried over the weekend to understand but I'm finding difficult to do so because I don't know C++.

[jsulm]

@LT-K101 Then you should tell what exactly is not clear.

[LT-K101]

@jsulm Implementing it in python is my headache.

[JonB]

@LT-K101 said in Printing a simple pdf:

@jsulm Implementing it in python is my headache.

Many, many examples of Qt code are in C++, not Python. You are going to struggle if you are not prepared to look at C++ and translate for yourself into Python. It really is not too hard, most Qt calls are pretty similar, some common sense/guesswork should allow you to translate C++ to Python from simple example code without knowing all the ins & outs of C++.

[jsulm]

@LT-K101 But you looked at C++ code and struggle to translate it to Python, right? So, what exactly is your current problem? What C++ code you can't translate to Python?

[LT-K101]

@jsulm This is the C++ code

QString fileName = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName((QWidget* )0, "Export PDF", QString(), "*.pdf");
   if (QFileInfo(fileName).suffix().isEmpty()) { fileName.append(".pdf"); }

   QPrinter printer(QPrinter::PrinterResolution);
   printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
   printer.setPaperSize(QPrinter::A4);
   printer.setOutputFileName(fileName);

[jsulm]

@LT-K101 And the problem you have is what? This C++ code is easy to translate to Python.

[CristianMaureira]

@LT-K101 said in Printing a simple pdf:

QString fileName = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName((QWidget* )0, "Export PDF", QString(), "*.pdf");
if (QFileInfo(fileName).suffix().isEmpty()) { fileName.append(".pdf"); }

QPrinter printer(QPrinter::PrinterResolution);
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
printer.setPaperSize(QPrinter::A4);
printer.setOutputFileName(fileName);

without testing, it's not too different:

fileName = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(0, "Export PDF", "", "*.pdf")
if (QFileInfo(fileName).suffix().isEmpty()):
    fileName.append(".pdf")

printer = QPrinter(QPrinter.PrinterResolution)
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
printer.setPaperSize(QPrinter.A4)
printer.setOutputFileName(fileName)

Better will be if you share your translation, or the part that doesn't work, otherwise we can just guess.

[JonB]

@CristianMaureira said in Printing a simple pdf:

fileName = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(0, "Export PDF", "", "*.pdf")

The OP may need to use None in place of the 0 here.