Java Printing

I think you want to print text.

The example below prints three lines of text on a page.

It creates a Book bk.

It calls bk.append(.,.) once, to add one page.

To print more than one page, append more pages.

Pass different Printable's, or pass the same Printable and let it check the pageIndex argument.

import java.awt.Font;

import java.awt.Graphics;

import java.awt.print.Book;

import java.awt.print.PageFormat;

import java.awt.print.Printable;

import java.awt.print.PrinterException;

import java.awt.print.PrinterJob;

public class ReportWriter

{

public static void print()

throws PrinterException

{

print(new PagePainter());

}

private static void print(Printable pagePainter)

throws PrinterException

{

PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();

PageFormat pf = job.defaultPage();

Book bk = new Book();

bk.append(pagePainter, job.defaultPage());

job.setPageable(bk);

if (job.printDialog())

job.print();

}

private static class PagePainter implements Printable

{

static final Font fontHeader = new Font("Sans serif", Font.PLAIN, 13);

static final Font fontNormal = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 11);

static final int spacingHeader = 20;

static final int spacingNormal = 14;

public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex)

throws PrinterException

{

int top = (int) g.getClipBounds().getMinY();

int left = (int) g.getClipBounds().getMinX();

int y = top;

g.setFont(fontHeader);

g.drawString("HEADER", left, y);

y += spacingHeader;

g.setFont(fontNormal);

g.drawString("line1", left, y);

y += spacingNormal;

g.drawString("line2", left, y);

y += spacingNormal;

return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;

}

}

}

tom_jansena at 2007-7-12 10:24:05 >