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REVISION SUMMARY
This is the 'official' Qt way of printing. It avoids the conversion of pdf
files to postscript that we do currently, and may fix a certain number of
printer settings bugs. For example, greyscale printing now works for me, which
it never did before.
There is a big caveat to this approach, however: Rendering a pdf doc into a
QPrinter object only works with the poppler 'Arthur' backend. While that
backend works okay on many documents, it is still lacking important features,
and you may see rendering problems. For the most part this is not a
fundamental problem. Somebody just needs to sit down and write the missing
parts.
For this reason, CUPS printing remains the default, and Qt printing is simply
a new option. Additionally, I tagged this option as 'experimental' in the GUI.
Unlike for CUPS printing, Qt printing prints on the entire page and does not
scale to the printable area yet. This is only because it is the easiest way.
I plan to implement a few standard scaling methods in a subsequent patch, which
will only be a few additional lines of code.
REPOSITORY
R223 Okular
REVISION DETAIL
https://phabricator.kde.org/D7949
AFFECTED FILES
generators/poppler/generator_pdf.cpp
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