QtPrinter in Symbian

[gronerth]

Is it available the library QPrinter for Symbian? I just wanna use it to generate PDF files but when i try to compile, i have the following error:

C:\Users\JTorres\Documents\QtProjects\QML\QuotationMaker\pdfcreator.cpp:12: error: incomplete type 'QPrinter' used in nested name specifier
C:\Users\JTorres\Documents\QtProjects\QML\QuotationMaker\pdfcreator.cpp:12: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct QPrinter'

It seems that i didn't add the header <QPrinter>, but i do..

pdfCreator.h

#ifndef PDFCREATOR_H
#define PDFCREATOR_H

#include <QObject>
#include <QTextDocument>
#include <QPrinter>
#include <QThread>


class pdfCreator : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit pdfCreator(QObject *parent = 0);

signals:
    void pdfGenerated();
public slots:
    void setHtml(QString str){m_html = str;}
    void setFileName(QString filename){m_filename = filename;}
    void createPDF();
private:
    QTextDocument *pdfGen;
    QPrinter *printer;
    QString m_html;
    QString m_filename;
};


#endif // PDFCREATOR_H

pdfCreator.cpp

#include "pdfcreator.h"
#include <QDebug>

pdfCreator::pdfCreator(QObject *parent) :
    QObject(parent)
{
}

void pdfCreator::createPDF()
{
    this->pdfGen  = new QTextDocument();
    this->printer = new QPrinter(QPrinter::ScreenResolution);
    this->printer->setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
    qDebug() << "createPDF!!!!!!";
    this->pdfGen->clear();
    this->pdfGen->setHtml(m_html);
    printer->setOutputFileName("tempfile.pdf");
    this->pdfGen->print(printer);
    delete pdfGen;
    delete printer;

    emit pdfGenerated();
}

[gronerth]

I have just seen in the Qt Documentation, that symbian doesn't support QPrinter...any other ideas how to generate a PDF file?

[rahulvala]

Symbian OS does not support pdf files, but Adobe has written software by which it is operable in mobile.

[gronerth]

Symbian OS does not support pdf files, but Adobe has written software by which it is operable in mobile.

Thanks for the answer!, but i won't be useful in the app that I am writing because i was thinking to use QPrinter to generate a PDF file from a HTML string..

[boumacmilan]

Plz, i have now the same probleme did you find any solution to solve it

[kamalakshan]

You will have to use a pdf library to generate pdf. Either you can license one or write your own.

[Johnny_B]

I think it would be easier to send the html code to a server on the internet, render it to a PDF there and download it to the phone.