QPainter does not print html file as expected, ideas workarounds?

[ChrisW67]

You couldn't search for "print" in the manual?

QPrinter *printer;
// set up printer
 
QWebView v;
v.setHtml(html);
v.show();
v.print(printer);
 
// or without the view widget
QWebPage page;
page.mainFrame()->setHtml(html);
page.mainFrame()->print(printer);

QPrinter *printer;
// set up printer

QWebView v;
v.setHtml(html);
v.show();
v.print(printer);

// or without the view widget
QWebPage page;
page.mainFrame()->setHtml(html);
page.mainFrame()->print(printer);

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QTextDocument has a limited range of allowable HTML and does not cater for the huge range of malformed HTML in the wild. The browser components do, but they are much heavier components.