[Interest] OS X 5.3 beta - QPrintDialog does not open

[Paul Miller]

On 4/5/2014 6:56 AM, John Layt wrote:
> On 4 April 2014 17:30, Paul Miller <paul at fxtech.com
> <mailto:paul at fxtech.com>> wrote:
>
>     Anyone else seen any print-related issues on OS X? There are no errors
>     in the console, it just doesn't open.
>
>     I've deployed QPrintSupport.framework and
>     plugins/printsupport/libcocoaprintersupport.dylib correctly, as far as I
>     can tell.
>
>     I just tried Assistant and Print doesn't work there either. The same is
>     true in Qt 5.2.1 as well. I wish I'd known how broken this stuff is
>     before spending days porting from Qt 4.8 to 5.2.
>
>
> Are there any printers configured on your machine?  If there are no
> printers installed then the dialog won't display, it's an issue we need
> to fix, but that normally outputs a qWarning.  Otherwise the plugin not
> being correctly installed would probably also cause this to happen.
> I've not heard of any issues with just the dialog not opening in any
> other circumstances.  Printing definitely works in Assistant here, but
> that's using a -developer-build.  If you're sure you have things
> correctly configured then please open a bug report and I'll have a look
> at it.

Aha - no printers configured! I guess I expected an error message or 
something. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

So I configured an Airprint printer, and tried again, and now it's 
crashing down in the QPrinter constructor, down in QMacPrintEngine. 
Assistant does the same thing. This is with the 5.3 beta.