How do you add Header/Footer in QTextDocument

[deleted385]

Out of the box it gives me a table with page number at bottom:

void QueryResultView::printTable()
{
    int row = table->model()->rowCount();
    int column = table->model()->columnCount();
    QPrinter printer;
    printer.setPageSize(QPageSize::A4);
    printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
    printer.setOutputFileName("test.pdf");
    QTextDocument doc;
    QTextCursor cursor(&doc);
    QTextTableFormat tableFormat;
    tableFormat.setBorderCollapse(true);
    tableFormat.setHeaderRowCount(row);
    cursor.insertTable(row, column);
    for (int r = 0; r < row; r++) {
        for (int c = 0; c < column; c++) {
            auto index = table->model()->index(r, c);
            cursor.insertText( table->model()->data(index).toString() );
            cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCell);
        }
    }
    doc.print(&printer);
}

How to add page header/footer as well as table column header on each page?

[deleted385]

@HoMa, this, probably, is the simplest possible way.

[JonB]

@Emon-Haque
You can't. Google Header Footer QTextDocument. Unless you're keen enough to want to do the low-level drawText/pageRect stuff to roll your own, e.g. https://forum.qt.io/topic/5152/adding-a-footer-to-a-qtextdocument/2

[deleted385]

@JonB, it should have some simpler class to make tabular report. Everyone has those things.

[SGaist]

Hi,

https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/kd-reports/
https://ncreportsoftware.com/
https://cute-report.com/
http://limereport.sourceforge.net/

And there are likely other Qt based tools to build reports.

[HoMa]

I found this example interesting: https://github.com/jeromecc/qprintereasy

best regards
HoM

[deleted385]

@HoMa, will look at that soon. Thanks for sharing the link.

[deleted385]

@SGaist, those are heavy library and probably is suitable for business.

What about individuals and others who want to have something like WPF's Fixed/FlowDocuments to create their own lightweight reports?

[deleted385]

@HoMa, this, probably, is the simplest possible way.