QPrinter setOutputFileName

[maartenS]

Hi,

I'm trying to save a QDocument as pdf file on a specific location.

QPrinter toPdf;
toPdf.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
toPdf.setOutputFileName("test.pdf");

QPrinter toPdf;
toPdf.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
toPdf.setOutputFileName("test.pdf");

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works, but when I'm trying to write a pdf file to a certain directory, i.e. home directory:

QPrinter toPdf;
toPdf.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
toPdf.setOutputFileName("~/test.pdf");

QPrinter toPdf;
toPdf.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
toPdf.setOutputFileName("~/test.pdf");

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it doesn't work and I get this message:

QPainter::begin(): Returned false

QPainter::begin(): Returned false

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Does anyone know how to solve this or if there is another way of doing this?
Thanks!

[wysota]

Isn't ~ interpreted by the shell? You don't have a shell here thus you should provide a valid path, like /home/myusername/test.pdf or QString("%1/test.pdf").arg(genenv("HOME")).

[maartenS]

Thanks! That was the problem.