Hi All,

I've gone through a lot of existing Printing threads e.g.

Printing HTML with Java Printing Service(JDK1.4 beta)
javax.print and binary formats
Converting JFrame to a .pdf file
Any one uses javax.print API and works?
setting printer options like LEGAL,landscape programatically.

but I could not find a solution to my problem.

I want to print different file formats (pdf, tif, jpg, gif, doc, xls etc.) using Java Printing API. I want printer to decide the paper size that will fit content prperly. Orientation and Number of copies should be provided by the user. I used following but it does not work

PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
pras.add(OrientationRequested.LANDSCAPE);
pras.add(new Copies(2));
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(fis, DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE, null);
DocPrintJob pj = pservices.createPrintJob();
pj.print(doc, pras);

But it does not work. Please help!!!!

 

 

Use PrintStream class

refer :

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/PrintStream.html

 

 

Nothing to do with printing in the context the OP means printing. You know, with printers and stuff

 

 

What does "not work" entail?

 

 

Orientation and the Paper size. Even if I write orientation for PDF document following

pras.add(OrientationRequested.LANDSCAPE);

Printer prints it as Portrait.
Even if I write that printing job should be "DUPLEX"

pras.add(Sides.DUPLEX);

I get one sided prints.
Even if I write code to have printing on A3 size paper I get it on A4.

pras.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A3);
 
where pras is 
PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();

Thanks.

 

 

Hi all,
I am also unable to print multiple copies. The following line of code should allow me to print two copies but printer only prints one copy.

pras.add(new Copies(2));

Can some one suggest me a solution. Am I missing something here or doing something wrong.

Thanks.

 

 

It's been while since I worked on printing, but looking at your code and comparing it with mine, the only difference I can see is where you create the print job:

This is what I do

docPrintJob.print(new SimpleDoc(printable,DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE,null),m_printRequestAttributeSet);


Hope ths helps

 

 

I think this is one of the many solutions. Thanks, it definitely helped!

plavix75mg.com

 

 

DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE

Does not work for me as I am printing pdf, xls, doc, gif, dwg etc files.

 

 

Hi,
Can someone help me with printing request I made before. I also need to send document to printer that has most of the pages A4 size but some pages are A3 size (diagram). Printer should automatically use most appropriate paper size to print the document. How do we code this? Any example.

Thanks.

 

 

Hi,
I'm still waiting for a solution for this printing problem.

I need to print different file formats (e.g. pdf, xls, doc, dwg, gif, tif etc.)
Orientation support e.g. Landscape or Portrait
Page sizes (A4, A3 etc.). Also printer should detect the most appropriate paper size in case a multi page document has mix size pages e.g A4, A3 etc.
Multiple copies should also be supported.

My code (see previous posts) works fine with gif file using DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.GIF. But pdf printout are not in desired form. Is it because it is not supported as DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PDF. I am using DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE for pdf.

Thanks.

 

 

Hi all,

Still waiting for some good solution for the printing problem.

Thanks.

 

 

Thanks for the update. Are you doing anything else to resolve the problem, or is it all down to us now?

 

 

You can use PDFRendere for printing pdf files

https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/examples.html