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BurninatorDor
BurninatorDor

Reputation: 1117

Adding pdf as a resource in .qrc

I need to add a pdf file to my resource folder, which I can open from the application with the click of a button (kind of like a Help file).

So my confusions are:

  1. How exactly do I add the pdf to my resources?
  2. What path should I use to direct to the pdf?

QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl("/Resource Files/Help.pdf"));

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1588

Answers (1)

Nejat
Nejat

Reputation: 32685

To add the resource file into your project, right click on the project in the Projects pane and click Add New... and then Qt>Qt Resource file, enter a name for it and after finishing something is added to your .pro file like :

RESOURCES = myResource.qrc

Once added into the pro file, a separate .qrc file will be added into your Qt project with which you can double click and add your desired resources like icons, translation files etc. Open the resource file and add your pdf file there.

To open the pdf file from resources, you should first copy it to some location for example in the application directory path :

QFile HelpFile("qrc:/myFile.pdf");;
HelpFile.copy(qApp->applicationDirPath().append("/myFile.pdf"));

Next you can open the pdf file by :

QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl::fromLocalFile(qApp->applicationDirPath().append("/myFile.pdf")));

Upvotes: 3

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