A blog entry about this years t-shirt at Meeting C++ 2025 and exploring QPainterPath for it.

You should use QPainterPath they said...

by Jens Weller

From the article:

This post is about what I learned while playing around with QPainterPath for this years t-shirt at Meeting C++ 2025 sponsored by Hudson River Trading.

One of the issues from last years t-shirt was when using drawText from QPainter, one does not really *draw* text in an svg exported. Instead you'll get the text and the font kinda embedded in an svg. What good is that in a vector graphic? This was a bit of a surprise when I ran into issues with this last year during printing. While this could be solved with the printing company picking a different font, it would have been also solved by using QPainterPath. At least this was the feedback from some of the Qt experts present onsite or online...