[Interest] QtWebkit error while building Qt5.12.7 sources

[Florian Bruhin]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:02:13AM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> An example: qtwebkit allows rendering of HTML content direct to a
> QPainter surface, keeping text as text objects and other components as
> vectors. This isn't possible in the webengine classes, at best you can
> render a rasterized image of a page to a painter. Without this
> capability it's impossible in Qt to render HTML content to SVG or PDF
> files without loss of quality.

There's QWebEnginePage::printToPdf() which does keep text as text and vectors
as vectors.

Florian

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