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commit 23e30464792f7e403e0815775eb7acbaad975238
Author: David Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 26 17:41:20 2009 +0100

    Doc: Added some basic documentation for the QSvgGenerator class.

    Task-number: 244944
    Reviewed-by: TrustMe

commit f84c1806d2ba40a61499584562d754f65d43f854
Merge: 8a42be7... 213d922...
Author: David Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 26 16:59:14 2009 +0100

    Merge branch '4.5' of ../qt-45 into qt/4.5

commit 8a42be789077de45f8fd9f13afd177798df7495e
Author: David Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 26 16:58:33 2009 +0100

    Doc: Added missing pieces for the SVG Generator example.

    Reviewed-by: David Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>

4 files changed, 166 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/demos/qtdemo/xml/examples.xml b/demos/qtdemo/xml/examples.xml
index df2d93b..03b59f3 100644
--- a/demos/qtdemo/xml/examples.xml
+++ b/demos/qtdemo/xml/examples.xml
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@
     <example filename="fontsampler" name="Font Sampler" />
     <example filename="imagecomposition" name="Image Composition" />
     <example filename="painterpaths" name="Painter Paths" />
+    <example filename="svggenerator" name="SVG Generator" />
     <example filename="svgviewer" name="SVG Viewer" />
     <example filename="transformations" name="Transformations" />
   </category>
diff --git a/doc/src/examples/svggenerator.qdoc b/doc/src/examples/svggenerator.qdoc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32bb89a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/src/examples/svggenerator.qdoc
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+/****************************************************************************
+**
+** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+** Contact: Qt Software Information (qt-info@nokia.com)
+**
+** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
+**
+** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
+** No Commercial Usage
+** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed.
+** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions
+** contained in the either Technology Preview License Agreement or the
+** Beta Release License Agreement.
+**
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+**
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+** additional rights. These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL
+** Exception version 1.0, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this
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+****************************************************************************/
+
+/*!
+    \example painting/svggenerator
+    \title SVG Generator Example
+
+    The SVG Generator example shows how to add SVG file export to applications.
+
+    \image svggenerator-example.png
+
+    Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for describing
+    two-dimensional vector graphics. Qt provides classes for rendering and
+    generating SVG drawings. This example allows the user to create a simple
+    picture and save it to an SVG file.
+
+    The example consists of two classes: \c Window and \c DisplayWidget.
+
+    The \c Window class contains the application logic and constructs the user
+    interface from a Qt Designer \c{.ui} file as described in the
+    \l{Using a Designer .ui File in Your Application#The Multiple Inheritance Approach}{Qt Designer manual}.
+    It also contains the code to write an SVG file.
+
+    The \c DisplayWidget class performs all the work of painting a picture on
+    screen. Since we want the SVG to resemble this picture as closely as
+    possible, we make this code available to the \c Window class so that it can
+    be used to generate SVG files.
+
+    \section1 The DisplayWidget Class
+
+    The \c DisplayWidget class displays a drawing consisting of a selection of
+    elements chosen by the user. These are defined using \c Shape and
+    \c Background enums that are included within the class definition:
+
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/displaywidget.h DisplayWidget class definition
+
+    Much of this class is used to configure the appearance of the drawing. The
+    \c paintEvent() and \c paint() functions are most relevant to the purpose
+    of this example, so we will describe these here and leave the reader to
+    look at the source code for the example to see how shapes and colors are
+    handled.
+
+    We reimplement the QWidget::paintEvent() function to display the drawing
+    on screen:
+
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/displaywidget.cpp paint event
+
+    Here, we only construct a QPainter object, begin painting on the device
+    and set a render hint for improved output quality before calling the
+    \c paint() function to perform the painting itself. When this returns,
+    we close the painter and return.
+
+    The \c paint() function is designed to be used for different painting
+    tasks. In this example, we use it to draw on a \c DisplayWidget instance
+    and on a QSvgGenerator object. We show how the painting is performed to
+    demonstrate that there is nothing device-specific about the process:
+
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/displaywidget.cpp paint function
+
+    \section1 The Window Class
+
+    The \c Window class represents the example's window, containing the user
+    interface, which has been created using Qt Designer:
+
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.h Window class definition
+
+    As with the \c DisplayWidget class, we concentrate on the parts of the code
+    which are concerned with painting and SVG generation. In the \c Window
+    class, the \c saveSvg() function is called whenever the \gui{Save As...}
+    button is clicked; this connection was defined in the \c{window.ui} file
+    using Qt Designer.
+
+    The start of the \c saveSvg() function performs the task of showing a file
+    dialog so that the user can specify a SVG file to save the drawing to.
+    
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.cpp save SVG
+
+    In the rest of the function, we set up the generator and configure it to
+    generate output with the appropriate dimensions and write to the
+    user-specified file. We paint on the QSvgGenerator object in the same way
+    that we paint on a widget, calling the \c DisplayWidget::paint() function
+    so that we use exactly the same code that we used to display the drawing.
+
+    The generation process itself begins with the call to the painter's
+    \l{QPainter::}{begin()} function and ends with call to its
+    \l{QPainter::}{end()} function. The QSvgGenerator paint device relies on
+    the explicit use of these functions to ensure that output is written to
+    the file.
+
+    \section1 Further Reading
+
+    The \l{SVG Viewer Example} shows how to display SVG drawings in an
+    application, and can be used to show the contents of SVG files created
+    by this example.
+
+    See the QtSvg module documentation for more information about SVG and Qt's
+    SVG classes.
+*/
diff --git a/examples/painting/painting.pro b/examples/painting/painting.pro
index b6fad5a..6d00720 100644
--- a/examples/painting/painting.pro
+++ b/examples/painting/painting.pro
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SUBDIRS       = basicdrawing \
 
 !wince*: SUBDIRS += fontsampler
 
-contains(QT_CONFIG, svg): SUBDIRS += svgviewer
+contains(QT_CONFIG, svg): SUBDIRS += svggenerator svgviewer
 
 # install
 target.path = $$[QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES]/painting
diff --git a/src/svg/qsvggenerator.cpp b/src/svg/qsvggenerator.cpp
index f7b2ae8..e822da5 100644
--- a/src/svg/qsvggenerator.cpp
+++ b/src/svg/qsvggenerator.cpp
@@ -516,7 +516,34 @@ public:
     \brief The QSvgGenerator class provides a paint device that is used to create SVG drawings.
     \reentrant
 
-    \sa QSvgRenderer, QSvgWidget
+    This paint device represents a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing. Like QPrinter, it is
+    designed as a write-only device that generates output in a specific format.
+
+    To write an SVG file, you first need to configure the output by setting the \l fileName
+    or \l outputDevice properties. It is usually necessary to specify the size of the drawing
+    by setting the \l size property, and in some cases where the drawing will be included in
+    another, the \l viewBox property also needs to be set.
+
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.cpp configure SVG generator
+
+    Other meta-data can be specified by setting the \a title, \a description and \a resolution
+    properties.
+
+    As with other QPaintDevice subclasses, a QPainter object is used to paint onto an instance
+    of this class:
+
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.cpp begin painting
+    \dots
+    \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.cpp end painting
+
+    Painting is performed in the same way as for any other paint device. However,
+    it is necessary to use the QPainter::begin() and \l{QPainter::}{end()} to
+    explicitly begin and end painting on the device.
+
+    The \l{SVG Generator Example} shows how the same painting commands can be used
+    for painting a widget and writing an SVG file.
+
+    \sa QSvgRenderer, QSvgWidget, {About SVG}
 */
 
 /*!