Sample Programs and Sample Code

J2PrinterWorks includes 25 sample programs with complete source code.  The source code for these applications may be freely used, modified, incorporated, and distributed without restriction as part of any software that uses J2PrinterWorks itself (see License and Terms of Use ).
 
 

J2PrinterWorksTestApplication		RUN ME FIRST!    A comprehensive test of all the J2PrinterWorks printing components
StylepadPrinter		Sun's Stylepad demo program (JTextPane-based word processor) with printing added
J2TextPrinterTestApplication		J2TextPrinter program that reads and prints HTML, RTF, and StyledDocument files
J2TextPrinterHTMLFormTest		Demonstrates use of "direct print" to print user entries in HTML <form> documents
J2TextPrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2TextPrinter program that prints a JTextPane (using HTML)
J2TablePrinterTestApplication		J2TablePrinter program that reads a file directory and prints it as a JTable
J2TablePrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2TablePrinter program that prints a JTable
J2TreePrinterTestApplication		J2TreePrinter program that reads a file directory and prints it as a JTree
J2TreePrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2TreePrinter program that prints a JTree
J2ListPrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2ListPrinter program that prints a JList
J2PanelPrinterImageApplication		J2PanelPrinter program that reads and prints any .gif or .jpg image file
J2PanelPrinterGraphicsTest		Minimum J2PanelPrinter program that prints a Graphics drawing and/or Image
J2PanelPrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2PanelPrinter program that prints a JLabel in a JPanel
J2ComponentPrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2ComponentPrinter program that prints a Component
J2ComponentPrinterTestApplication		Reimplementation of  J2PrinterWorksTestApplication using only J2ComponentPrinter
J2FlowPrinterSimplestTest		Minimum J2FlowPrinter program that prints a JTextPane, JTable, JTree, JList, and JPanel back-to-back
J2FlowPrinterTestApplication		J2FlowPrinter program that prints a typical report made up of JTextPane, JTable, JTree, JPanel, etc.
J2Printer14PrinterSelectionTest		J2Printer14 program that lets you find and choose printers (JDK 1.4.x or later required)
J2Printer14CrossPlatformTest		J2Printer14 program that uses Java cross-platform printing dialogs (JDK 1.4.x or later required)
J2Printer14PSTest		J2Printer14 program that prints to a Postscript file (JDK 1.4.x or later required)
J2PrinterPDFTest		Program that prints to a PDF file +  display & print any PDF file (iText.jar and Acrobat Reader required)
J2PrintToImageTest		Program that tests printing a page to an Image and saving Image as a .jpg file
J2PrinterWorksApplet		Simple unsigned printing applet.      Run it now
J2Printer14Applet		Simple J2Printer14 unsigned printing applet (JDK 1.4.x or later required)      Run it now
J2PrinterWebStartTest		J2PrinterWebStart program that tests printing from a Java Web Start application

Installing and running sample programs

J2PrinterWorks is a Java 2 program.  You must have Java 2 (either JDK 1.2.x, 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, or 1.6.x) installed on your system.  JDK 1.4 or later is highly recommended.  You may encounter performance problems, feature limitations, and possible malfunctions when printing under JDK 1.2.x or JDK 1.3.x due to various problem present in earlier Java systems (see Known Problems section). Information is available at the Sun Java site for how to download (free) and install the latest release of Java .

All the sample programs are included in the J2PrinterWorks distribution (.zip) file.  Unzip this file to create folders containing all the J2PrinterWorks sample programs.

In the top level J2PrinterWorks installation folder, you will find a folder called samplePrograms.  Inside this folder, you will find multiple folders containing all the J2PrinterWorks sample programs and source code files.  Most of the sample applications (all but the last three sample programs in the above list) are double-clickable .jar files.

To run the sample applets, double-click on the corresponding .html file. 

To run the J2PrinterWebStartTest, you need to build (e.g. using Ant) and deploy to a Java-enabled web server (e.g. Tomcat).  Instructions for doing this are included in the readme.txt file included in the J2PrinterWebStartTest folder and are the same as the standard Java Web Start sample programs from Sun.

java -cp .;..\..\J2PrinterWorks.jar J2PrinterWorksTestApplication

NOTE: On Unix and Mac, the class path file separator is colon instead of semi-colon and the path separator is forward slash instead of backward slash.

The standard Java page setup dialog is designed to let end users control the margins and orientation of printed pages.  The Java cross-platform page setup dialog available in JDK 1.4.x and later adds several more printing feature controls to these.  However, J2PrinterWorks contains a number of additional features beyond those in the Java page setup dialogs, including headers and footers, scale factors, centering, thread and dialog control, etc.  Application developers may choose to control these features themselves or may wish to provide some or all of these choices to end users.  To facilitate the latter case, the J2PrinterWorks sample programs provide the source code for a number of different "detailed" page setup dialogs which developers may wish to use or adapt for their own purposes to provide control over certain J2PrinterWorks features to end users. In particular, the following page setup dialogs are of interest:

J2PrinterWorksPageSetupDialog.java - contains the standard J2PrinterWorks controls including headers/footers contents, style, and gaps, margins, print and print preview scale factors, orientation, print thread, print dialog, number of copies, and print job name, which could replace the standard Java page setup dialog.

J2PrinterSettingsDialog.java - contains a minimum subset of the standard J2PrinterWorks controls without orientation or margins, which therefore avoids any overlap with and could be used in addition to the standard Java page setup dialog.

 J2TextPrinterPageSetupDialog.java - contains the standard J2PrinterWorks controls plus controls specific to J2TextPrinter including centering and WYSIWYG control.

J2TablePrinterPageSetupDialog.java - contains the standard J2PrinterWorks controls plus controls specific to J2TablePrinter including centering, outside line control, column header replication and row/column ranges.

J2TreePrinterPageSetupDialog.java - contains the standard J2PrinterWorks controls plus controls specific to J2TreePrinter including centering and outside line control

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