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diff --git a/doc/src/painting-and-printing/printing.qdoc b/doc/src/painting-and-printing/printing.qdoc index 62c8192..97cd92f 100644 --- a/doc/src/painting-and-printing/printing.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/painting-and-printing/printing.qdoc @@ -136,6 +136,17 @@ used is constructed using the form of the constructor that accepts a QPaintDevice argument. + \section1 Printing Widgets + + To print a widget, you can use the QWidget::render() function. As mentioned, + the printer's resolution is usually higher than the screen resolution, so you + will have to scale the painter. You may also want to position the widget on the + page. The following code sample shows how this may look. + + \snippet doc/src/snippets/widgetprinting.cpp 0 + + This will center the widget on the page and scale it so that it fits the page. + \section1 Printing from Complex Widgets Certain widgets, such as QTextEdit and QGraphicsView, display rich content |