J2PrinterWorks Documentation
    Copyright © 2009 by Wildcrest Associates
    All Rights Reserved.  (Version: 5.0, Date: March 6, 2009)

Overview and Features


J2PrinterWorks is a JavaTM 2 framework for printing Swing component-based documents.

For example, to print a fully-paginated JTextPane the following code is all that is required:

    import com.wildcrest.j2printerworks.*;
    J2Printer printer = new J2Printer();
    J2TextPrinter textPrinter = new J2TextPrinter(yourJTextPane);
    printer.print(textPrinter);
 

J2PrinterWorks classes

J2PrinterWorks consists of the following primary classes:
 
J2Printer  manages the Java PrinterJob class, prints one or more Pageables (the Java class defining a set of printable pages)
J2Printer14  J2Printer subclass supporting JDK 1.4+ printing features (printer discovery, cross-platform dialogs, etc.)
J2PrinterWebStart  J2Printer subclass supporting printing from Java Web Start applications using the JNLP APIs
Flowable  interface for printing components that can start and/or end in the middle of pages
J2TextPrinter  prints any JTextPane, JEditorPane, or JTextArea as a Pageable or a Flowable
J2TablePrinter  prints any JTable as a Pageable or a Flowable
J2TreePrinter  prints any JTree as a Pageable or a Flowable
J2ListPrinter  prints any JList as a Pageable or a Flowable
J2PanelPrinter  prints any JPanel or simple Components and Images as a Pageable or a Flowable
J2ComponentPrinter  prints any (Java or third-party) Component as a Pageable or a Flowable
J2FlowPrinter  prints any series of Flowables back-to-back as a Pageable or a Flowable


Detailed J2PrinterWorks Features

The following are the features of each of the main classes of J2PrinterWorks:

Printing mechanism
Classes:
  J2Printer
  J2Printer14
  J2PrinterWebStart
Pageable & Book support (prints one or more Pageables including your own)
Per-Pageable control of headers/footers, margins, orientation, centering, scale
Print Preview dialog, including page controls, zoom controls, and one or two page display
Developer-customizable Print Preview dialog using icon buttons and toolbar
Anti-aliased print preview display
Support for English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish locales
Page Setup dialog
Improved wait cursor support for dialogs

Background printing thread with print progress events and PrintingEventHandler adapter class
"Silent" printing (no Print Dialog)
"N-up" printing
Print to Postscript file (requires JDK 1.4 or later) , direct to Postscript printer support
Print to PDF file (using open source iText.jar component)
Display
and print PDF file (using Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Print to HTML slide show
Control page number of first page of document

Java Web Start printing support using the JNLP APIs
Support for Headless operation

Supports (under JDK 1.4.x or later):
          printer discovery
          programmatic printer selection
          printer properties
          cross-platform or native dialogs
Complete source code for 32 sample programs
Complete source code for 3 print dialogs, 2 page setup dialogs, and 2 print preview dialogs
Common features
Classes:
  J2TextPrinter
  J2TablePrinter
  J2TreePrinter
  J2ListPrinter
  J2PanelPrinter
  J2ComponentPrinter
  J2FlowPrinter
Paginates across multiple pages
Headers & footers (left, center, and right, first vs. rest-of-pages control)
Headers & footers can contain
multiple lines, rich text, images, date, time, & page numbering
Automatic localization of default date, time, and page number strings in headers and footers
Margins (left, right, top, and bottom)
Centering (horizontal and/or vertical)
Orientation (portrait, landscape)
Scaling (percentage or fit-to-page(s))
Optional surrounding box and white background
Support for Java Borders
Control maximum gap before page breaks
Additional features
  J2TextPrinter
Prints any JTextPane, JEditorPane, or JTextArea class or subclass
Paginates over multiple pages vertically
Breaks pages on line boundaries
Can reflow text to page width or preserve WYSIWYG layout
Supports native JTextPane (StyledDocument) rich text formatting
Also supports HTML and RTF documents (subject to Java limitations)
"Direct print" for printing user entries in HTML <form>

Embedded graphics (e.g., .gif, .jpg, Image, ...)
Embedded components (e.g., JLabel, JPanel, JTable, ...)
Additional features
  J2TablePrinter
Prints any JTable or JTable subclass
Paginates over multiple pages horizontally & vertically
Separate horizontal & vertical pagination modes
BREAK_ON_ROWS, BREAK_ON_COLUMNS pagiantion modes break on row and/or column boundaries
BREAK_ON_COLOR pagination mode breaks on color (e.g. gridline) boundaries, handles complex (e.g. nested) JTables
SHRINK_TO_FIT pagination mode rescales to fit with a single page width and/or height
Print area (row & column subset)
Column header replication (all pages, top pages only, or none)
Row header replication (all pages, left pages only, or none)
Variable row height (JDK 1.3 or later) & column width
Supports custom table cell renderers

Additional features
  J2TreePrinter
Prints any JTree or JTree subclass
Breaks pages on tree node (row) boundaries
Paginates over multiple pages vertically
Automatically rescales JTree to fit available page width
Supports custom tree cell renderers
Additional features
  J2ListPrinter
Prints any JList or JList subclass
Breaks pages on list item (row) boundaries
Paginates over multiple pages vertically
Automatically rescales JList to fit available page width
Supports custom list cell renderers
Supports layout orientations HORIZONTAL_WRAP and VERTICAL_WRAP (JDK 1.4 or later)
Additional features
  J2PanelPrinter
Prints any JPanel or JPanel subclass
Also can be used for smaller (<1 page) Components, Containers wtth smaller Components, and Images

SHRINK_TO_FIT mode rescales to fit within single page width and height
TILE mode paginates over multiple pages horizontally and vertically, breaking on pixel boundaries
BREAK_ON_COMPONENTS mode paginates horizontally and vertically, breaking on contained Component boundaries
SHRINK_TO_WIDTH mode rescales to fit within single page width, breaking vertically on pixel boundaries
Additional features
  J2ComponentPrinter
Prints any Java Component or subclass thereof, including many third-party Components
Appropriate for larger (multi-page) Components, Containers, and Images
Separate horizontal & vertical pagination modes
SHRINK_TO_FIT mode rescales to fit within single page width and/or height
TILE mode paginates over multiple pages horizontally and/or vertically, breaking on pixel boundaries
BREAK_ON_COMPONENTS mode paginates horizontally and/or vertically, breaking on contained Component boundaries
BREAK_ON_COLOR mode paginates horizontally and/or vertically, breaking on color (e.g. white space) boundaries
Additional features
  J2FlowPrinter
Can print any sequence of Flowables back-to-back as a single Pageable
Per-Flowable control of scaling and centering
Additional Flowables include VerticalGap, HorizontalLine, PageEject
Used to embed multi-page tables, images, etc. in rich text documents including captions, titles, legends, etc.
Other product features
General-purpose ImagePanel including support for scaling and Java Borders
General-purpose JLabel subclass with better control of HTML fonts and color
Works under JDK 1.2.x, 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x
Works under Windows, Mac, Unix
Includes one year Annual Maintenance contract (renewable)
Complete source code for 32 sample programs
Developer-based pricing, no run-time royalties



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