Why can't I print to PDF in BlackBerry-10 with QTextDocument?

Question

QTextDocument *td = new QTextDocument();
td->setHtml("<p>blah blah blah </p>");
QPrinter printer;
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter:: PdfFormat);
printer.setOrientation(QPrinter::Portrait);
printer.setPaperSize(QPrinter::Letter);
printer.setOutputFileName(filenamer);
td->print(&printer);

Permission to write files are good. QPrinter prints pdf from images in other code I have. But HTML in a QTextDocument doesn't work. Doesn anyone know why? I use Cascades as my GUI.

is output file address valid? – Akın Yılmaz Aug 01 '14 at 12:18 — Akın Yılmaz, Aug 01 '14 at 12:18
just works fine for me with no problem – Akın Yılmaz Aug 04 '14 at 07:42 — Akın Yılmaz, Aug 04 '14 at 07:42
Works fine for you in a BB10 app? – Dave Aug 05 '14 at 05:32 — Dave, Aug 05 '14 at 05:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '14 at 13:51

When I run your code on version 10.2.1 simulator the call to td->print(&printer) results in the error message QPainter::begin(): Returned false.

I suspect that this is because Cascades, while derived from Qt is an extension of Qt so not all Qt facilities work. Font rendering to a QPainter is one of the things that doesn't work. This is probably the issue you have run into.

Why can't I print to PDF in BlackBerry-10 with QTextDocument?

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