[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5.1: printing to PDF on Mac broken?

[Paul Miller]

R. Reucher wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:01:23 -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
>> Paul Miller wrote:
>>> I've got an app that can print to PDF - on Windows it works as expected
>>> but on Mac it prints out a bunch of "empty" pages, then messes up the
>>> QPrinter so the next time it is used for a preview the preview is also
>>> messed up.
>> I should add I am printing a QWebPage. Previews work fine, until I try
>> to print to PDF, using Qt's PDF output format.
> I can't say if there's a problem on Mac OS X, and I'm no Mac user/
> developer either, but I'd recommend to try a newer versions first. There 
> are probably many differences, and a potential bug may have been fixed 
> already.
> 
> Regarding QtWebKit, I've seen a lot of fixes between 4.5.1 and 4.5.3, and 
> it's still acting a bit differently on UNIX and Windows for example. I 
> have never tried to print QWebPage's, though.

I looked through the changes for 4.5.2 and 4.5.3 and none of them were 
related to PDF. What I ended up doing is just disabling my own PDF 
printing options on Mac, since the Mac print dialog already does its PDF 
output. That part works fine.

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