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more then one page

Guest — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:40:26 -0800

Hello
Can you help me print more then one page. I have everything in a jTextArea that i want printed but when i run your code it only prints the first 40 to 50 line.

PrintUtilities.printComponent(jTextArea)

That is how i am tunning your code.

Printing multi pages

RexKwanDo — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:30:42 -0800

I have a problem. when i run your code on a jtextarea i only get one page. could there be something i am missing?

Please help
Thanks
Rex

HTML printing

Guest — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:32:45 -0800

I have developed java code that generates html page for printing. Now it really looks weird to give print by selecting print from file option in html page. What i really want is an approach so that instead of generation of html page, when i click on print button on UI, it could print the document generated by quering db based on UI input.

PS: Reply to sumitsharma1983@gmail.com for this query of mine.

Cheers

Licensing Free Code

Rob MacGrogan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:57:51 -0700

This is not an uncommon situation. Often people post helpful snippets of code on the internet without any license restrictions at all in the hope that they'll be helpful to other developers. What are the legal restrictions on such code?

For the post I've made here I would like the particular code I've created to be free to all without any restrictions on it whatsoever. I think that is generally the understanding when people make these sorts of posts. However, it's nice to acknowledge where you got something from.

What I do when I incorporate something like this into a project is just make an acknowledgement within the code in a top-level comment. I include the author's name and the URL where the original code can be found. If you've got a GPL project, a lot of times you'll include license information in the header of ever source file. The source file for my little utility, I think, should not include this license information but should maybe specify that this particular piece of code is not covered by the GPL. That's what I think. The Gnu people may have a different opinion.

If, on the other hand, if you just learned how to make your own print utility with my code as an example, you can license it however you see fit. Again, just my opinion.

PS: I'm glad you find the code useful and that it'll make it into a GPL project.

GPL Compatibility

Guest — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:14:07 -0700

Hello,

First I would like to say that this is a very helpful utility. I have used it in a couple projects, and it seems to work very well.

I have a question about GPL compatibility with it. I am working on a project (Buddi - buddi.sf.net) which requires printing, and I am using this class in it. Currently I am doing a check through the source to ensure there are no copyright violations in it, and I realized that I had not contacted you previously about this class. Is it OK for me to distribute this in a GPL'd project? If not, what is a license which I can distribute it under?

Sorry I did not contact you about this earlier, and thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers

Printing beyond the margin

acdhirr — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:50:38 -0700

You could do that by passing an extra PageFormat argument to printJob.setPrintable:

(Add code to public void print(), values are arbitrary)

  public void print() {


    PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
    PageFormat format = new PageFormat();
    // or if you like:
    // PageFormat format = printJob.pageDialog(printJob.defaultPage());
    Paper pp = new Paper();
    pp.setSize(597,835);
    pp.setImageableArea(36,36,525,763);
    format.setPaper(pp);
    printJob.setPrintable(this,format);


    etc.

Dont works for me

Daniel — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:38:44 -0700

I am trying to print with your class like this:

new PrintUtilities(new JLabel("Test")).print();

Printing is invoked right with the dialog, but only an empty white page is printed.
What is the problem?

Question regarding your print code

Henrik Moeller-Madsen — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:40:19 -0700

First of all. You are completely right regarding printing in JAVA. At the moment Im making an application, which should print a JScrollPane. Well your code seems good, but a get a problem when printing:

The whole scrollpane prints on one page, so it gets very small and unreadable. Any ways to make it larger, and print it on multiple pages... Maybe its just my problem. But at least it prints the entire scrollpane out, instead of just printing the current view. GOOD!!!

im using this:
PrintUtilities pu = new PrintUtilities(histogram);
pu.printt();

I cant get this function to print anything:
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex)

Do you maybe have some sample code on how to use it???

I have tried to do this:
PageFormat pf = new PageFormat();
PrintUtilities pu = new PrintUtilities(histogram);
pu.print(histogram.getGraphics(),pf,1);

nothing happens ??

Please reply

cannot say thank you enough

gen8x — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:02:00 -0700

hi, i just want to drop a reply saying THANK YOU for your article above.

i really want to thank you million for excellent effort you put in. both PSwing and printing class is EXACTLY what i am looking for in my project.

again, thank you so much

How generate report in java(swing)

Kaveri — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:45:37 -0700

Hi
I am kaveri, I am working in some company, just i want sample code for generate report in java, i can display my data in JTable but, number fo table colum is fixed, so i want number of table colum diffent row diffent colum, so anybody have code for this problem,pls send to my id kaveridpimku@gmail.com/kaveridpi_mku@yahoo.com

BY
M.kaveri

Creating a gif out of a java Map

AJ — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:11:25 -0700

I want to create a gif in byte[] from a map having name value pairs like;

FirstName: Joe LastName: Doe
Date of Birth: 2006-23-1967
..

any suggestions..

Thanx!! in advance.

-AJ

Many thanks for this page

Jean-Francois — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:47:59 -0700

As anyone in this page I struggled to print a multi page file in Java. The doc is too complicated and you feel like roaming in a desert.
This page is a glass of cool water! It points to the essential of printing in Java. SUN should add it to it's site as a starting example.

Thanks to you. I think now I can go further by my own.

unable to print from JBoss in swings

vsnn — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:53:23 -0700

we are trying to print data using swings, we successed in jRun , if deploy the same code in jBoss we are getting this error :

sun.misc.ServiceConfigurationError: javax.print.PrintServiceLookup: : java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://devuc.corporate.ge.com/ftlt/META-INF/services/javax.print.PrintSe... 	at
sun.misc.Service.fail(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.misc.Service.parse(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.misc.Service.access$100(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.misc.Service$LazyIterator.hasNext(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.print.PrintServiceLookup$1.run(Unknown Source) 	at
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) 	at
javax.print.PrintServiceLookup.getAllLookupServices(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.print.PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.lookupDefaultPrintService(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob.getPrintService(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(Unknown Source) 	at
sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(Unknown Source) 	at
presentation.BaseFrame.doPrint(BaseFrame.java:1068) 	at
presentation.MainFrame.JMenuItemPrintDataSet_actionPerformed(MainFrame.java:1368) 	at
cmpresentation.CMMainFrame.access$33(CMMainFrame.java:1) 	at
cmpresentation.CMMainFrame$SymAction.actionPerformed(CMMainFrame.java:850) 	at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source) 	at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$MouseInputHandler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) 	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Works Great - Thanks

Richard Conway — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:22:43 -0700

Just wanted to thank you for the useful print utility - it works great for me. Hopefully Sun will listen to the pain of the Java developers out there and beef up printing support since they seem to be getting more serious about Java on the desktop.

Printing beyond the margin

Vinny — Wed, 10 May 2006 13:29:27 -0700

Does anyone know how to override the page default and print in the gutter / left margin area? I want to be able to print closer to the edge of the page, but nothing I have tried seems to have any effect on the page default, and my graphic is clipped.

Any help would be appreciate!
Vinny

Printing In Java

Rob MacGrogan — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:02:11 -0800

I've got a solution to some tricky Java printing problems. The bottom of this post contains code that you can re-use, for free, to very easily print the multi-page contents of Java Swing components.