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PySide6 setPageMargins()


I tried setting qprinter margins in PySide6 it throws an error

PySide6.QtGui.QPagedPaintDevice.setPageMargins(): too many arguments

    document = QtGui.QTextDocument()
    p = QtPrintSupport.QPrinter()
    p.setResolution(100)
    
    p.setPageMargins(1, 6, 1, 1, QtPrintSupport.QPrinter().Millimeter)
    document.setPageSize(QSizeF(p.pageRect().size()))

this works on PyQt5


Solution

  • It seems that PySide6 is more strict with enums and does not auto-convert like PyQt5 so the code should be:

    document = QtGui.QTextDocument()
    p = QtPrintSupport.QPrinter()
    p.setResolution(100)
    
    p.setPageMargins(QtCore.QMargins(1, 6, 1, 1), QtGui.QPageLayout.Millimeter)
    document.setPageSize(
        QtCore.QSizeF(p.pageRect(QtPrintSupport.QPrinter.Millimeter).size())
    )