Why my ODF (.odt) file is not generated correctly with QTextDocumentWriter ?

hisoft

Hi,

I'm trying de generate an ODF file using QTextDocumentWriter (as recommended) but it does not work properly. The same code is used to generate a PDF file and it works ! What's going wrong ? Can someone help me please ?

Here is my code :

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#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include "mainwindow.h"

#include <QTextDocument>
#include <QTextCursor>
#include <QTextFrameFormat>
#include <QTextTable>
#include <QImage>
#include <QPrinter>
#include <QTextDocumentWriter>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);

QTextDocument * doc = new QTextDocument();
QTextCursor cursor(doc);

QTextFrameFormat frameFormat;
frameFormat.setPageBreakPolicy(QTextFormat::PageBreak_AlwaysBefore);
cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextBlock);
cursor.insertFrame(frameFormat);

QTextTable * table = cursor.insertTable(3,1);

// Header
cursor = table->cellAt(0, 0).firstCursorPosition();
cursor.insertText("File name");

// Image
cursor = table->cellAt(1, 0).firstCursorPosition();
QImage image("/path/to/image/image.png", "png");
cursor.insertImage(image);

// Footer
cursor = table->cellAt(2, 0).firstCursorPosition();
QTextTable * table2 = cursor.insertTable(1, 2) ;

// Author
cursor = table2->cellAt(0, 0).firstCursorPosition();
cursor.insertText("Author");

// Date
cursor = table2->cellAt(0, 1).firstCursorPosition();
cursor.insertText("17/10/2011");

// FORMAT PDF
QPrinter printer(QPrinter::HighResolution);
printer.setPageSize(QPrinter::A4);
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
printer.setOutputFileName("rapport.pdf");
doc->print(&printer);

// FORMAT ODF
QTextDocumentWriter writer("rapport.odt");
writer.setFormat("odf");
writer.write(doc);

return a.exec&#40;&#41;;

}
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goetz

Can you explain "but it does not work properly" a bit more detailed? Is anything written at all? Is it data incomplete or corrupted?

hisoft

Hi,

First, thanks for replying. What i mean by "but it does not work properly" is :

The second table in the posted code doesn't appear in the generated odf file. "author" & "17/10/2011" are missing.
If i insert a second frame (from line 8 to line 29), there are not 2 pages as expected and as it is generated in the PDF file, but just one page.

goetz

Can you create a complete test case, the snippet does not compile (the cursor variable is undefined).

hisoft

Complete test created (old posted code is edited) !

hisoft

Nobody has an idea ?

goetz

Looks like a real bug - I have the same behavior on my Mac here.

I'd suggest you open an issue in the "public bugtracer":https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/. Please report back the the bug ID here, so that others can follow and vote for it.

durgeshK

Hello people,

Any update on this issue? I am in desperate need to generate ODF for my project.

ecloud

hisoft and durgeshK: did you ever write a bug about this? I tried your code on OS X. The resulting doc is as you say if I open with LibreOffice: the author and date are missing. But if I open it with TextEdit, that text is there, but the image is missing.

Meanwhile someone wrote another bug about ODF support: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-30924

Serenity

The bad odf support is already reported: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-29555

It looks like, that the ODF Support doesn't work really well. There are a lot of problems, but it got a low prio.
I tried it really out, try to make simple example, and there are a lot of problems with this function. It really looks like, that nobody cares about that so much.