[Qt-interest] [Qt-Interest] How can I print QGraphicsTextItem in MFC application?

[Long Cheng]

Jason, do you still remember that link? Can I print QPainterPath
directly to Win32 DC? Thanks!

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There was a post on labs, in reference to drawing text, in response a question, that might help.
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> It described a way to take the text and convert it to a QPainterPath, with only a color limitation. You could do the same, then print the path rather than a bitmap, with the idea that you can scale a path better that a bitmap.
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> HTH.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Long Cheng <kevinclcn at gmail.com>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 7:32:06 AM
> Subject: [Qt-interest] [Qt-Interest] How can I print QGraphicsTextItem in MFC application?
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> I have used QGraphicsTextItem in my MFC applications for text editing,
> then converted the results to a bitmap to show in the view (screen).
> But it has issues when printing. For example, if I print to a PDF
> file, the text is not scalable since it is a bitmap and the file size
> is also big.
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> How can I print the QGraphicsTextItem in the MFC printing framework?
> The ideal solution is that we can hook QPrinter into the MFC printing
> framework or I can initialize QPrinter with Win32 DC. MFC printing
> framework has prepared printer and DC for me, so I don't need
> QPrintDialog to do that task again. The code may something like this:
>
>      QPrinter printer;
>      printer.paintEngine()->setDC(myHDC); //**Note: this line is
> imagined by me.
>      QPainter painter(&printer);
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> Is that possible? Do I have to reimplement my own QPrinter? Scanning
> QPrinter's source code, I found it very complex. I hope there is an
> easy way to get my goal. If I have to implement my own QPrinter, what
> should I need to notice? Can anyone give me some advices?
>
> Thanks,
> Long
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