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As tested by @3nids, QPrinter::PdfFormat works correctly on OSX
(as of Qt 5.11) and correctly respects "text as text" setting
without forcing conversion to paths.
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nyalldawson committed Dec 11, 2018
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void QgsLayoutExporter::preparePrintAsPdf( QgsLayout *layout, QPrinter &printer, const QString &filePath )
{
printer.setOutputFileName( filePath );
// setOutputFormat MUST come after setOutputFileName, which auto-sets format to QPrinter::PdfFormat.

// [LS] This should be QPrinter::NativeFormat for Mac, otherwise fonts are not embed-able
// and text is not searchable; however, there are several bugs with <= Qt 4.8.5, 5.1.1, 5.2.0:
// https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-10094 - PDF font embedding fails
// https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-33583 - PDF output converts text to outline
// Also an issue with PDF paper size using QPrinter::NativeFormat on Mac (always outputs portrait letter-size)
printer.setOutputFormat( QPrinter::PdfFormat );

updatePrinterPageSize( layout, printer, firstPageToBeExported( layout ) );
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