[Gambas-user] Bug in class Printer of gb.Qt component

[Leonardo Miliani]

Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:41, timothy wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gambas-user-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:gambas-user-
>>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Leonardo Miliani
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:04 PM
>>> To: mailing list for gambas users
>>> Subject: [Gambas-user] Bug in class Printer of gb.Qt component
>>>
>>> I think there is a bug inside the class Printer of the gb.Qt
>> component.
>>
>>> This bug is manifest both in an application of mine and in the
>> Printing
>>
>>> example too.
>>>
>>> Try to print any document, designed by yourself using the class Draw
>> of
>>
>>> by printing any test of Printing example and, in the Printer.setup
>>> dialog window, choose a number of copies greater than 1: you'll obtain
>> a
>>
>>> blank document composed of only 1 page.
>>> I get this bad way of working printing directly to the printer or to a
>>> file too.
>>>
>>> THe only way I discovered to print multiply pages of the same document
>>> is to choose 1 copy for Printer.copies and then draw my document
>> several
>>
>>> times using the class Draw.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ciao.
>>> Leo.
>> Hello,
>>
>> Yes the printing example does ignore the Copies property. It also
>> ignores the FromPage and ToPage and a few other properties.
>>
>> And you already know the answer. If you need these options then you need
>> to handle these properties in your code.
>>
>> I do not think any other development environment would do these things
>> for you. So you would have the same problem no matter what language you
>> used.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> 8-{)} Timothy Marshal-Nichols
>> <mailto: timothy.marshal-nichols at ...247...>
>>
> 
> The printing support of QT 3 is not very good (it is better in QT 4 
> apparently). 
> 
> So the better way to print is to do all you need by hand and send it to a 
> postcript file. Then run a command yourself with SHELL to send the postcript 
> file to the printer (for example with KDE you can use kprinter).
> 
> I think I will remove the printing to a printer support in the component for 
> these reasons.
> 
> Regards,
> 

I'm writing a program that will generate reports so I would like to know
how to create a method that I should not change in near future :-)
If you think that you'll remove the printing to a printer support (I'm
using this method to print my reports), what do you suggest me?
How can I export an image drawn with the Draw method into a postscript file?

-- 
Ciao.
Leo.

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