Compiling QtWebengine without QtQuick dependancy.
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wrote on 14 Apr 2025, 18:37 last edited by
@JKSH Thank you very much for that insight. My need is to convert html to pdf, I don't need the complete features provided by QtWebEngine. Maybe I should try with Qt6 since the
QWebEnginePageclass was moved toQWebEngineCorewhich should not rely on qtdeclarative. Do you have more tips to share? -
Did you already checked QtPdf ?
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wrote on 14 Apr 2025, 20:47 last edited by JulienMaille
@SGaist Well I thought QtPdf was not standalone and was required by QtWebengine to render pdf? Am I wrong? So that's when your input is pdf, in my case input is html and output is pdf.
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@JKSH Thank you very much for that insight. My need is to convert html to pdf, I don't need the complete features provided by QtWebEngine. Maybe I should try with Qt6 since the
QWebEnginePageclass was moved toQWebEngineCorewhich should not rely on qtdeclarative. Do you have more tips to share?- Chromium contains its own internal PDF libraries for viewing and printing PDFs (pdfium). Qt WebEngine makes use of this directly, without depending on Qt PDF.
- Qt PDF is a standalone module for viewing PDF documents only (not printing). It can be used on platforms that can't use Qt WebEngine.
@JulienMaille said in Compiling QtWebengine without QtQuick dependancy.:
Maybe I should try with Qt6 since the
QWebEnginePageclass was moved toQWebEngineCorewhich should not rely on qtdeclarative. Do you have more tips to share?You're welcome.
Alas, even if you only depend on Qt WebEngine Core but not Qt WebEngine (Widgets|Quick), your deployment will still have a dependency on Qt Quick for some reason (I just tested with Qt 6.8.3, but I haven't figured out why)
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wrote on 15 Apr 2025, 11:29 last edited by
Ok, I will stick to Qt5 for now. My first try to load and print pdf using the example https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-webenginewidgets-html2pdf-example.html was a total failure. Both the load and the print fails, without any error message.
I will try recompiling with less-no-feature-webengine-*flags -
Sorry for the QtPdf suggestion, I somehow conflated rendering with printing.
What kind of document are you trying to create PDF out of ?
Depending on that, the QPdfWriter class might be enough. -
wrote on 16 Apr 2025, 18:23 last edited by
@SGaist The document I want to convert to PDF is an "in memory" html+css file.
@JKSH Have you ever tried the html2pdf example? I recompiled Qt in 64bit (I was afraid something was wrong with my x86onx64 build) and this official example still fails to print anything to pdf.
m_page->load(QUrl::fromUserInput(m_inputPath));return ok=false, and when forcing the htmlSource of m_page with some html code, thenm_page->printToPdf(m_outputPath);also results in ok=false.
There are no error codes that I could use to understand where the problem comes from. -
Are you styling things in such a manner that QDocument can handle it ?
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wrote on 16 Apr 2025, 19:11 last edited by
I dunno, I tried printing "<html>hello</html>" to pdf, shouldn't that work?
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With QPdfPrinter ? AFAIK, yes.
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wrote on 16 Apr 2025, 20:56 last edited by
Have a look at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-webenginewidgets-html2pdf-example.html it uses neither QDocument nor QPdfPrinter
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