Qml as a vector source for printing.

[llamatron]

Hi All,

I'm just wondering whether it's possible to either render a declarative item at a higher resolution, or even as vector elements.

I've tried for example using a QPrinter to print a QDecalarativeView's scene, however while elements manually added to the scene such as text are rendered as vector art, declarative items are rasterized at screen resolution.

Any ideas?

[sergeev]

"Here":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/1181/ is kind of similar topic.

[llamatron]

Thanks sergeev, but that's unfortunately unrelated.

I've been digging in the various qml element implementations and they're mostly using QPainter primitives, so it should be possible - but I'm guessing something in qml's declarative item hierarchy is perhaps caching to a bitmap thanks to optimizations.

[mbrasser]

Hi,

Ultimately almost all of the painting in the QML graphical elements is cached into pixmaps for performance reasons. This is done in the elements themselves (have a look at QDeclarativeRectangle::generateBorderedRect(), for example), so I can't think of an easy way to get around this without hacking all of the elements, or writing your own set of vector-based elements.

Regards,
Michael