QMLaTex

QML Wrapper for creating Latex Documents

QMLaTex provides an interface for writing structured documents in QML which is compiled to LaTex code for generating PDF documents. The following Example generates a LaTex(Pdf) files which can be found in doc/SimpleDocument.tex(pdf).

import QtQuick 2.3
import QtQuick.Controls 1.2

//plugin need to be provided by C++ application see main.cpp how to publish
import qmlatex.reports 1.0

import "latex"	//convenience QML Latex Files

Item {
	width: 100
	height: 100

	Button {
		text: "generate"
		onClicked: {
			compiler.startCompile();
		}
	}

	//The Compiler
	property var compiler: LatexCompiler {
		document: doc
		// specify outPath (default temp dir is used)
		outPath: "C:/myPath"
	}

	//The Document
	LatexDocument {
		id: doc
		name: "SimpleDocument"
		LatexSection {
			title: "{The First Section}"
		}
		LatexCodeBlock {
			code: "Here comes the text for the first section"
		}
		LatexSubSection {
			title: "{The Sub Section}"
		}
		LatexCodeBlock {
			code: "Here comes the text for the second section"
		}
	}
}

Details

QML Items are provided via C++ interface and are exposed to the QML context. See the Example below of how to define the document in QML. A more advanced example can be found in src/qml/DataDocument.qml. The provided LatexCompiler Item takes a QML LatexDocument as input and generates the PDF file. Note you need to have installed a LaTex distribution (including needed packages). The QML item LatexCompiler generates .tex code from the LatexDocument and call the latex compiler pdflatex in the background LaTex to generate the pdf document(the tools pdfinfo and pdftoppm to generate previews in the QML appplication). The software was tested under Windows with the MikTex environment. But should also run on Linux System.

Prerequisites

• Qt 5.5
• LaTex compiler and tools (pdflatex pdfinfo and pdftoppm). All included in the MikTex distribution.
• To generate the example document under src/qml/DataDocument you need the latex package pgfplots to print the charts. (optionally to see a coffee stain the package coffee4 should be installed)

QML Items Provided by the C++ Interface:

• LatexDocument - The top level item for each document
• LatexCodeBlock - The document is build up by a set of (nested) LaTex code blocks
• LatexModelMapper - An Item for generating data out of Qt models
• LatexCompiler - A utility item for generating LaTex Documents
• LatexSyntaxHighlighter - A utility item for LaTex syntax highlighting (currently not used in the examples)

QML Convenience Items

The folder src/qml/latex contains defined convenience items for reuse.

• LatexSection - Defines a section
• LatexSubSection - Defines a subsection
• LatexTable - Defines a table with an Qt data model for input data
• ...