[Interest] Creating pdf with QTextDocument with chart

[André Somers]

Op 26-10-2015 om 14:09 schreef Duane:
> On 23/10/2015 7:40 PM, Sze Howe Koh wrote:
>> On 24 October 2015 at 00:21, Duane <duane.hebert at group-upc.com> wrote:
>>> I need to create a document as a pdf file for my application.  I can use
>>> QTextDocument and html to do most of the document but I need to add a
>>> chart to it.
>>>
>>> I'm using Qt 4.8.  Any suggestions?
>> Hi Duane,
>>
>> Try the Qt Widgets for Technical Applications library:
>> http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply.  We're using QWT to do the charts.  I can save a
> chart to pdf.  what I need is to make a report containing a chart among
> other things and save that as a PDF file.
Qwt has QwtRenderer which is designed for this kind of usecase. You 
would render the chart into an image, which you then embed in your 
report. That's basically how we do it (only not based on QTextDocument).

André