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Printing a "Printable" object to a PDF file silently

How can I print a "java.awt.print.Printable" object silently to a PDF?
Few things to note:
I do not have the data as a pdf file
I'm working on existing code, so I cannot step away from the printable interface
So i can print it just fine with job.printDialog(). But I need to be able to do that silently (without user input). The available PDF printer is "Adobe PDF", I suppose others can be installed if needed.
Here's the basic code:
Printable printout = /*object*/;
Book pageable = new Book();
pageable.append(printout, pageFormat);
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
// Add Filepath?
PrintService[] ps = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
if (ps.length == 0)
throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
job.setPrintService(ps[0]);
job.setPrintable(printout);

I eventually decided to step away from trying to do it in java and instead used a PDF printer which has the option to print silently to a predetermined path.
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
PrintService[] ps = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
System.out.println("Available printers: " + Arrays.asList(ps));
PrintService myService = null;
for (PrintService printService : ps) {
if (printService.getName().contains("PDF Writer - bioPDF")) {
myService = printService;
break;
}
}
if (myService == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException("bioPDF Printer not found");
}
PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
job.setJobName(jobName);
job.setPrintService(myService);
job.setPrintable(printout);
job.print();

java prints only the first page of multipage pdf

I've code up and running for sending Blob-Objects to a printer using javax.print. Everything works fine, except in some cases only the first page of multipage PDF-files is printed. The file looks normal when opened in acrobat and when I take the OutputStream that is used to feed the printjob and save it to another file I get and exact copy - so the stream seems to be okay. I have no idea why the following pages are dropped in some cases. here's my code:
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
aset.add(new Copies(1));
aset.add(OrientationRequested.PORTRAIT);
aset.add(Sides.ONE_SIDED);
aset.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
aset.add(new JobName("Sammelausdruck", null));
ArrayList<String> fehlerDokumente = new ArrayList<String>();
//some standard print dialog
PrintService printService = ServiceUI.printDialog(null, 50, 50,
PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(null, aset), PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService(),
null, aset);
if (printService != null) {
DocPrintJob docjob = printService.createPrintJob();
aset.remove(JobName.class);
aset.add(new JobName(dok.getDokbezeichnung(), null));
File file = <some PDF-file>;
try {
FileInputStream psStream = new FileInputStream(file);
if (file.exists() && !file.isDirectory()) {
DocFlavor psInFormat = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE;
SimpleDoc doc = new SimpleDoc(psStream, psInFormat, null);
docjob.print(doc, aset);
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
...
} catch (PrintException e) {
...
}
}
}
Any ideas? I'm even interested in debug-ideas.
thank you
Edit:
In some very rare cases the printer (a professional office-printer with a touchscreen) provides an error-message that no matching paper is found for the given page-size and the pagesize shown is slightly off Din-A4 (210,2 x 295,8 or somthing like that). In this cases, if i manually tell the printer to use Din-A4, the printjob continues. I don't know if that has a complete different cause or is just another peculiarity of the same problem. I also tried to fiddle around with the MediaPrintableArea Attribute, but that didn't help either.

Generating Print .txt file directly using DocPrintJob for DotMatrix Printer

I am printing a .txt file using DocPrintJob. This works fine.
The file will be printed from a Dot Matrix Printer. Now, the issue which I am facing is -:
As per my requirement, the paper needs to set back automatically to
perforated position after printing one record.
But while printing directly from the application, the paper is not automatically setting back to perforated position.
But while giving print of file manually by opening in notepad, printing happens properly with automatic paper adjustment i.e. the paper sets back to the perforated position for next printing
I tried using line feeds and carriage returns at the end of each page. But it didn't work out.
Is there any way out to set the adjustment of printer through code?
Here is my sample code -:
private static void print(String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException, PrintException {
FileInputStream textStream;
textStream = new FileInputStream(fileName);
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE;
Doc mydoc = new SimpleDoc(textStream, flavor, null);
// Set the printer Name
PrintService service = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
PrintServiceAttributeSet printServiceAttributeSet = new HashPrintServiceAttributeSet();
printServiceAttributeSet.add(new PrinterName(service.getName(), null));
// Set the paper size and orientation
PrintRequestAttributeSet printRequestAttributeSet = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
printRequestAttributeSet.add(new MediaPrintableArea(0, 0, 4, 9, MediaPrintableArea.INCH));
printRequestAttributeSet.add(OrientationRequested.LANDSCAPE);
InputStream is = null;
try {
PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
pras.add(new Copies(1));
DocPrintJob job = service.createPrintJob();
PrintJobWatcher pjw = new PrintJobWatcher(job);
job.print(mydoc, printRequestAttributeSet);
pjw.waitForDone();
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally{
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

print a file in java

fis = new FileInputStream(file);
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE; // FILE IS .txt TYPE
PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
//pras.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
//pras.add(new Copies(1));
PrintService printService[] =PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, pras);
System.out.println("Print Service:"+printService);
PrintService defaultService =PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
System.out.println("Default Service:"+defaultService);
PrintService service = ServiceUI.printDialog(null, 200, 200,printService, defaultService, flavor, pras);
if (service != null)
{
System.out.println("Selected Service"+service);
DocPrintJob job = service.createPrintJob();
job.addPrintJobListener(new MyPrintJobListener());
System.out.println("JOB:"+job);
DocAttributeSet das = new HashDocAttributeSet();
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(fis, flavor, das);
System.out.println("Start of Print");
job.print(doc, pras);
System.out.println("End of Print");
i=1;
}
else
{
i=0;
}
I'm Working on a web application where the user wishes to print the data which is saved in file which contains details from database as per his query.I'm placing the above code in a method and when this is invoked it gives a print dialog for user where he can select the printer from list of printers attached to his machine.
If i try to print to a local printer the files are being sent to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool folder and goes for printing.
but it does not happen in the case of a network printer
my printer on the network is Canon MP280 series Printer
i'm able to see it in list of printer,but unable to print my file

the printer on the network is share or not?
if the printer is shared and in your pc / laptop has installed.
you must choice one of list array of print service name
e.g
PrintService defaultPrintservice = printServices[0];
if the printer not install in your PC / Laptop, you must set the path of location network printer
e.g
new PrinterName("ipp:\\\\witnw21va\\ipp\\ITDepartment-HP4050", null);
i hope it solve your problem :) sorry for my english :D

How to print PDFs automatically

We have a number of systems that produce PDFs that need to be printed. These are stored on a central document store. A message then goes onto a JMS queue that the document needs printing. A service, written in Java , picks these up and then invokes a native command. This is to call Adobe Reader with the /t flag. This causes the document to print without the GUI showing.
However since a power cut this no longer works. In the interim we are having to manually print hundreds of documents. We originally tried using Java printing, but the PDFs came out malformed.
What is a better solution to this?

This code only works if the printer supports PDF. Otherwise you need to use a native printer or a Java library. There is a blog article on this at http://pdf.jpedal.org/java-pdf-blog/bid/25566/Printing-PDF-files-from-Java

Show us the code. I remember printing PDF with no issues using Java Print API. Below is the code, might need some modification, but should run as it is,
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PDF;
// find the printing service
AttributeSet attributeSet = new HashAttributeSet();
attributeSet.add(new PrinterName("FX", null));
attributeSet.add(new Copies(1));
PrintService[] services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(
DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PDF, attributeSet);
//create document
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(in, flavor, null);
// create the print job
PrintService service = services[0];
DocPrintJob job = service.createPrintJob();
// monitor print job events
PrintJobWatcher watcher = new PrintJobWatcher(job);
System.out.println("Printing...");
job.print(doc, null);
// wait for the job to be done
watcher.waitForDone();
System.out.println("Job Completed!!");
Note:
Flavor is not needed in 2 places, 1 place should be enough. You find that out.
PrintJobWatcher is a nested class, to add a PrintJobListener.

Ever since Java 1.5, Sun developed a pdf renderer library for handling PDF. Now this one is left to Swing Labs. And not sure whether this one would be added into future java APIs.
http://java.net/projects/pdf-renderer/
It is used to view or print pdf files. to print pdf files, you can call this libray. Here is some part of the code.
File input = new File(docName);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(input);
FileChannel fc = fis.getChannel();
ByteBuffer bb = fc.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, fc.size());
PDFFile curFile=null;
PDFPrintPage pages=null;
curFile = new PDFFile(bb); // Create PDF Print Page
pages = new PDFPrintPage(curFile);
PrinterJob pjob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
PrintService[] services = pjob.lookupPrintServices();
for(PrintService ps:services){
String pName = ps.getName();
if(pName.equalsIgnoreCase("PrinterName")){
pjob.setPrintService(ps);
System.out.println(pName);
break;
}
}
pjob.setJobName(docName);
Book book = new Book();
PageFormat pformat = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob().defaultPage();
book.append(pages, pformat, curFile.getNumPages());
pjob.setPageable(book);
// print
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
// Print it
pjob.print(aset);

Try using ICEpdf. Here's an example from documentation page:
Document pdf = new Document();
pdf.setFile(filePath);
// create a new print helper with a specified paper size and print
// quality
PrintHelper printHelper = new PrintHelper(null, pdf.getPageTree(),
0f, MediaSizeName.NA_LEGAL, PrintQuality.DRAFT);
// try and print pages 1 - 10, 1 copy, scale to fit paper.
printHelper.setupPrintService(selectedService, 0, 0, 1, true);
// print the document
printHelper.print();

You can use Apache PDFBox. Examples:
a) Printing PDF as Pageable
PrintService printService = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
DocPrintJob printJob = printService.createPrintJob();
PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load(new File("doc.pdf"));
PDFPageable pdfPageable = new PDFPageable(pdDocument);
SimpleDoc doc = new SimpleDoc(pdfPageable, DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE, null);
printJob.print(doc, null);
b) Printing PDF as Printable
This option has advantage that you can control page dimensions, margins, etc. by modifying pageFormat variable.
PrintService printService = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
DocPrintJob printJob = printService.createPrintJob();
PageFormat pageFormat = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob().defaultPage();
PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load(new File("doc.pdf"));
PDFPrintable pdfPrintable = new PDFPrintable(pdDocument);
Book book = new Book();
book.append(pdfPrintable, pageFormat);
SimpleDoc doc = new SimpleDoc(book, DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE, null);
printJob.print(doc, null);