I have downloaded and installed python-poppler-qt4 and I am now trying out a simple Qt application to display a PDF page. I've followed what I've been able to get from the web, i.e. convert the PDF to a QImage, then to a QPixMap, but it doesn't work (all I get is a small window with no visible content).
I may have failed at some point (QImage.width()
returns the width I have input, QPixMap.width()
returns 0).
Here is the code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
import popplerqt4
class Application(QtGui.QApplication):
def __init__(self):
QtGui.QApplication.__init__(self, sys.argv)
self.main = MainWindow()
self.main.show()
class MainWindow(QtGui.QFrame):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
self.layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
self.doc = popplerqt4.Poppler.Document.load('/home/benjamin/test.pdf')
self.page = self.doc.page(1)
# here below i entered almost random dpi, position and size, just to test really
self.image = self.page.renderToImage(150, 150, 0, 0, 210, 297)
self.pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap()
self.pixmap.fromImage(self.image)
self.label = QtGui.QLabel(self)
self.label.setPixmap(self.pixmap)
self.layout.addWidget(self.label)
self.setLayout(self.layout)
if __name__ == "__main__":
application = Application()
sys.exit(application.exec_())
Where does it go wrong here? Thanks.
I'm not familiar with python, so this might not apply directly, but QPixmap::fromImage
is a static function that returns a QPixmap
. So your code should read something like:
self.pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap.fromImage(self.image)
In other words, self.pixmap.fromImage
doesn't change self.pixmap
, it returns a new pixmap generated from the image you give it as a parameter.