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Document generation

Message 1 in thread

Hi all!!

I need to generate *.doc and/or *.pdf files from plain text.
Do you know if Qt provides tool for this purpose??
Do you know an easy way to do it?

Lot of thanks!!!!

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Message 2 in thread

Also I could generate *.rtf files, and generate pdf an doc from rtf.

Cheers!!

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:59 AM, | pedro mateo || <pedrolmn@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all!!
>
> I need to generate *.doc and/or *.pdf files from plain text.
> Do you know if Qt provides tool for this purpose??
> Do you know an easy way to do it?
>
> Lot of thanks!!!!
>
> --
> Pedro Luis Mateo Navarro || pedrolmn@xxxxxxxxx _ pedromateo@xxxxxxxxx
> > _phone: (+34) 626 14 29 33 or (+34) 968 39 82 58
> > _web: www.pedromana.com
> > _msn: pedrolmn@xxxxxxxxxxx




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Message 3 in thread

Pedro Mateo wrote:
 >  I need to generate *.doc and/or *.pdf files from plain text. 

There is no way to produce *.doc from Qt without using a 3rd party
library or the MS Office ActiveX interface and coding it manually.  You
should, however, be able to produce PDF by creating a QTextDocument.
Set the plain text in the document (setPlainText) and use the Print
function to send it to a QPrinter.  QPrinter uses PDF by default when
configured to print to a file.

Rob
Message 4 in thread

Bachrach, Robert L a écrit :
> Pedro Mateo wrote:
>  >  I need to generate *.doc and/or *.pdf files from plain text. 
>
> There is no way to produce *.doc from Qt without using a 3rd party 
> library or the MS Office ActiveX interface and coding it manually.  
> You should, however, be able to produce PDF by creating a 
> QTextDocument.  Set the plain text in the document (setPlainText) and 
> use the Print function to send it to a QPrinter.  QPrinter uses PDF by 
> default when configured to print to a file.
>
> Rob
hi,

maybe this can help?...
here piece of code I wrote to generate pdf from a xml document (this 
work actually with Qt434)
so... you could put plaintext in xml class
QTextDocument::setPlainText ( const QString & /text/ ),
you save it in a xml file or modify api of this function to replace  
pPubliURL by QTextDocument.
Why did I do this and not simply printed it using pdf configuration of 
printer?
because I nedded to control header and footer, new page,etc... so use 
xslt transformation file (lStyleFile) to control this.


/******************************************************************************
* Compile a xml file to create a pdf.
*
* @param pPubliFile the xml file
* @param pPDFFile the output pdf file.
******************************************************************************/
bool MyReportPublishingAction::compile( const QString& pPubliURL, const 
QString& pPDFURL )
{
    //** Retrieves the tools dir
    QString lPDFCompilerDir = MyEnvironment::getSystemDirPath( 
MyEnvironment::eToolsDir, true );

    //** Initializes the PDF compiler full path
    QString lPDFCompilerExe = lPDFCompilerDir + 
MyApplication::get()->msPDFExePath;

    //** Initializes the XSL file full path (fo stylesheet)
    QString lStyleFile = MyEnvironment::getSystemDirPath( 
MyEnvironment::eResourcesDir, true );  
    lStyleFile += 
MyEnvironment::cSystemDirNames[MyEnvironment::eDocStyleSheetDir];
    lStyleFile += QString(QDir::separator());
    lStyleFile += MyApplication::get()->msPdfTransformationFile;

    //** Backups the current dir and sets the current dir to the PDF 
compiler dir
    //** in order to resolve path troubleshooting
    QDir lCurrentDir = QDir::current();
    QDir::setCurrent( lPDFComilerDir );

    //** Initializes the process
    QProcess lProcess ( NULL );
    lProcess.setProcessChannelMode(QProcess::MergedChannels);

    QStringList lArguments;
    lArguments << "-xslt" << pPubliURL << lStyleFile << "-pdf" << pPDFURL;

    // set application busy before probably long operation
    MyApplication::get()->setBusy( true );

    //** Executes the transformation Xml2PDF
    bool lResult = false;
    if
        ( lProcess.execute( lPDFCompilerExe, lArguments ) == 
QProcess::NormalExit )
    {
        lResult = true;
    }
    MyApplication::get()->setBusy( false );

    //** Restores the current dir
    QDir::setCurrent( lCurrentDir.absolutePath() );

    return lResult;
}