[ Solved] Print QWebView to PDF

[ASSeeger]

[ Solved] Had as typo in the location string - sorry for bothering!

I want to print an already loaded string containing HTML source code to PDF.
So here's the function I implemented:

// Print to PDF
// Purpose: print incoming HTML source code to a PDF on the users desktop
// Input:   string containing the HTML source code, string with the desired filename of resulting PDF
// Output:  void
void MainWindow::printToPDF(QString htmlinput, QString filename)
{
    // Set location of resulting PDF
    QString saveLocation = QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DesktopLocation) + "/" + filename + ".pdf";

    // Initialize printer and set save location
    QPrinter printer(QPrinter::HighResolution);
    printer.setOutputFileName(saveLocation);

    // Create webview and load html source
    QWebView webview;
    webview.setHtml(htmlinput);

    // Create PDF
    webview.print(&printer);
}

Unfortunately it results in the following error and no PDF is created:

QPainter::begin(): Returned false

By the way, the newby I am I confirmed the techniques used in the function in another project and it worked fine there.
Any suggestions? Thanks for all your efforts in advance!

[p3c0]

Hi @ASSeeger, Just a shot in he dark, does it work if you create QWebView on heap rather than stack ? Because it gets destroyed as soon as functions exits.

[ASSeeger]

@p3c0 Unfortunately it doesn't help – I now tried it within the calling method itself without creating a specific function and the result is the same...

[ASSeeger]

Problem solved: I obviously had as typo in the file location string- that was the reason it didn't work.

[p3c0]

@ASSeeger Glad that you found the problem, Happy Coding ..