On 6 March 2015 at 11:31, Anton Lundin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06 March, 2015 - Robert Helling wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > On 06.03.2015, at 00:52, Gehad Elrobey <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I managed to print a QTextDocument directly after generating the HTML code >> > by Grantlee with Qt5. >> > I attached a pdf of the print out. >> >> as I said, my worry is not so much that you can use templates to generate >> some html. I am concerned that the Qt subset of html is not expressive >> enough to produce decent layouts beyond simple tables. To get an idea what >> people’s paper divelogs look like in the wild, do a google image search for >> “dive log template”. Compared to what we have now, we need much better >> control over spacing (inclunding whitespace, there we currently waste far >> too much precious room on the paper), fields for which we don’t have >> information should in many cases not be displayed and the room be used for >> what we actually have etc. For me, for example, beyond the very basic >> information (date, depth, time, location, buddy), the notes are by far the >> most important textual element and should occupy sufficient room (in a >> decent font size). > > As far as i can understand http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtWebEngine , Qt's > html renderer is based on chromium so i don't think its lacking any > bells and whistles. > >
TMK there are a couple of engines. there is one which is used by QTextDocument, which is a HTML subset and lacks at certain areas like CSS, and the other one is the WebKit engine which is like the backend of a full-blown modern browser. like i said in the previous email, i'm pretty sure we are going to need WebKit, because QTextDocument is going to soon become sub-par for our needs, which opens two questions: - how fast is the WebKit rendering to QPicture / QPixmap? - do we care that the Windows package is going to inflate 30+MB for the release build (also it's probably going to require ICU which is another 20+MB unless there is a way to use WebKit without ICU)? lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
