[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

Shaw Andy andy.shaw at theqtcompany.com
Mon Mar 23 17:20:45 CET 2015


> This happened in Qt 5.3
> 
> https://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.3
> 
> From the site:
> Qt Print Support
> New QPA class QPlatformPrintDevice to abstract platform print device hardware,
> new implementations for Windows, Mac and Linux.
> QPrinterInfo provides more details on the print device hardware
> QPrinter uses QPageSize and QPageLayout to improve page layout handling
> QPrinter has had the behaviour of most functions standardised across all
> platforms (as detailed below)
> Mac can now have each painted page with a different orientation, and can set
> Collate Copies and Document Name.
> Mac and Windows now support setting Document Creator and Duplex Mode
> Mac and Linux now support using Windows Page ID (DMPAPER values)
> Linux now requires CUPS 1.4 (RHEL 5 no longer supported)

Ah that was it, I had forgotten that bumping up to CUPS 1.4 had that change. Thanks for clarifying.

Andy



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