[Qt-interest] Implementing a QPaintEngine - why pixmaps when there are no pixmaps?

[Jeremy Sanders]

I'm making my own QPaintEngine, which mostly seems to work quite well (it is 
an EMF export paint engine using pyemf).

One difficulty I have is that it the drawPixmap() method gets called even 
when I have no pixmaps sent to the QPainter. I think it may be rotated text 
which does this.

Is there any way to stop this happening? QPaintEngine.drawTextItem should 
convert text to paths, but this doesn't seem to happen when the text is 
rotated.

Postscript and PDF paint engines don't seem to  use pixmaps for the same 
QPainter commands, so presumably there's something I can do to stop this 
happening.

Jeremy

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Jeremy Sanders <jeremy at jeremysanders.net>