Question

I need to be able to save the main window of a pyqt app in a PS or similar file format so that I can send it to a printer. I would just make a built in screen shot function but my main window exceeds the size of my screen. Anyone know of a way to capture the window in it’s entirety or is there a prebuilt class that could do this?

Answer 1

QPixmap has the static method grabWidget.

Pointing this method at your window will give you a pixmap that you can save to a file or use for printing.

If calling from inside your main window class:

sshot = QPixmap.grabWidget(self)
sshot.save('sshot.png')