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

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:55, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> 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?

I meant I will remove "real" printing support. With the Printer class will 
stay. So you will do:

Printer.File = "/path/to/file.ps"
Draw.Begin(Printer)
...
Draw.End

EXEC [ "kprinter", "/path/to/file.ps" ] WAIT

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini