Exporting Widgets to PDF and Controlling Position in PyQt5 — How to render a QWidget to PDF and position it at the top of the page

Martin Fitzpatrick — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

When you're building a PyQt5 application that displays information — student records, reports, invoices — you'll often want to export that content to PDF. PyQt5 makes this possible by using QPrinter and QPainter to render any QWidget directly onto a virtual "page." The tricky part is controlling where the widget appears on that page.

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Exporting Widgets to PDF and Controlling Position in PyQt5 — How to render a QWidget to PDF and position it at the top of the page