How can I print a QWidget in Qt?

Question

I need to know how to print a QWidget as a PDF file. The Widget (QDialog) contains a lot of labels, some QPlainTextEdit and a background image. The Dialog shows a receipt with all of its field already filled.

I already tried using QTextDocument and html for this purpose, but the complexity of the receipt(lots of image and format customisation) makes the html output completely messed up.

This is the document.

Receipt image

Answer 1

You have to use QPrinter and this is the object that you must use and requires QPainter to draw the widget in QPrinter.

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    QDialog w;

    w.setLayout(new QVBoxLayout());
    w.layout()->addWidget(new QLineEdit("text"));
    w.layout()->addWidget(new QPushButton("btn"));
    w.layout()->addWidget(new QPlainTextEdit("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris rutrum magna semper nisi faucibus, at auctor dolor ullamcorper. Phasellus facilisis blandit augue sit amet placerat. Aliquam nec imperdiet diam. Proin dignissim vulputate metus, nec tincidunt magna vulputate ac. Praesent vel felis ac dolor viverra tempus eu vitae neque. Nulla efficitur gravida arcu id suscipit. Maecenas placerat egestas velit quis interdum. Nulla diam massa, hendrerit vitae mi et, placerat aliquam nisl. Donec tincidunt lobortis orci, quis egestas augue tempus sed. Nulla vel dolor eget ipsum accumsan placerat ut at magna."));
    w.show();

    QPushButton btn("print");
    btn.show();

    QObject::connect(&btn, &QPushButton::clicked, [&w](){
        QPrinter printer(QPrinter::HighResolution);
        printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
        printer.setOutputFileName("output.pdf");
        printer.setPageMargins(12, 16, 12, 20, QPrinter::Millimeter);
        printer.setFullPage(false);

        QPainter painter(&printer);

        double xscale = printer.pageRect().width() / double(w.width());
        double yscale = printer.pageRect().height() / double(w.height());
        double scale = qMin(xscale, yscale);
        painter.translate(printer.paperRect().center());
        painter.scale(scale, scale);
        painter.translate(-w.width()/ 2, -w.height()/ 2);
        w.render(&painter);
    });

    return a.exec();
}

Widget:

output.pdf