Error printing A3 paper format

On my system (archlinux x86_64, LANG set to it_IT.utf8), if I choose a paper format different from A4, preview is right, but if I print on PDF, LibreCAD prints on A4 format.
Do you have any idea about possible causes?

Mickele,

i have been looking into this. And for me it happens aswell. This is because my printer (Epson scanner thingy) doesn't support. So the dialog goes back to something that's valid.

However, when I set the dropdown to A3 I can perfectly print on A3.

I will push a couple of updates regarding this, mainly to get rid of some q3support related items.

Ries

Thanks for your help.
I updated librecad from git, but I still have the same problem.
Also if I print on file, drawing is cut to A4 format.

mickele

Problem seems caused by Qt.
Method QPrinter::setPaperSize() doesn't work when printing on PDF (see qprinter.cpp).
Quite strange...

Mickele,

Line 1136 in

http://www.qt.gitorious.org/+wkhtml2pdf/qt/wkhtmltopdf-qt/blobs/076c6564fb466aa28b485bd927ac7fd0449097fd/src/gui/painting/qprinter.cpp

Mickele,

Yes, you're right.
However the problem is in Qt. I wrote a simple program that prints a word on an A3 paper.
On other system (e.g. windows) everything works fine, on my archlinux 64 bit it creates an A4.
Here's some code:

    QPrinter * printer = new QPrinter();
    printer->setPaperSize( QPrinter::A3 );
    qWarning("before: %d", printer->paperSize() );

    // it prints 8, the right value

    if( printer->isValid() ){
        QPrintDialog * dialog = new QPrintDialog( printer, this );

        // I set pdf as printer, but I don't change the paper size

        if( dialog->exec() == QDialog::Accepted ){
            printer->setPaperSize( QPrinter::A3 );
            qWarning("after: %d", printer->paperSize() );

            // it prints 0, A4 format

            QTextDocument doc;
            doc.setPlainText( trUtf8("bye") );
            doc.print( printer );
        }
    }
    delete printer;

This can be a bug in qt-4.7.3 or a bug in qt package available on archlinux.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:35 PM, mickele [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Yes, you're right.
> However the problem is in Qt. I wrote a simple program that prints a word on
> an A3 paper.
> On other system (e.g. windows) everything works fine, on my archlinux 64 bit
> it creates an A4.

I think you're right, it's a qt bug - don't know how much we can do with that:
http://www.eaglecentral.ca/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=132446&S=576ba10e86783cc00e88495196dc6082

I can't find a reference in qt's bugs, however . . .