Is there a way to print a .doc file (this specific case) using a virtual printer without showing the print dialog?
I have tried using javax.print library and I can print(convert in this case) images and text files, using for example:
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.JPEG;
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
aset.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
aset.add(new Copies(1));
aset.add(Sides.ONE_SIDED);
DocPrintJob pj = selectedPrinter.createPrintJob();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filePath);
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(fis, flavor, null);
pj.print(doc, aset);
Trying following this logic with several other options with .doc files always result in a corrupted pdf.
I have made a program that generates text files (.txt) and then displays them in a textArea. I want to take this one step farther and be able to print the text file. It feels like I have tried everything but always get the same result. The text file always varies in length and is normally more than one page long. Using the code below my text file prints but instead of printing multiple pages it prints each page on one/sixth of the a single sheet in landscape. I just need it to print normally. Vertically on multiple pages. I am running on a Linux environment and it is an Epson printer. Any suggestions or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
public static void tryDoc(){
try{
PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
pras.add(OrientationRequested.PORTRAIT);
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.TEXT_PLAIN_UTF_8;
PrintService printService[] = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, pras);
PrintService defaultService = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
PrintService service = ServiceUI.printDialog(null, 200, 200, printService, defaultService, flavor, pras);
if(service != null){
DocPrintJob job = service.createPrintJob();
FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(FileName);
DocAttributeSet das = new HashDocAttributeSet();
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(input,flavor,das);
job.print(doc, pras);
}
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Failed");
}
}
What printed page looks like
Desperately trying to print a document using the following code. A document is being added to the printer queue but nothing actually comes out of the printer.
PrintService defaultService = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
PrintService printService[] = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(null, null);
InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream("hello world!\f".getBytes("UTF8"));
PrintRequestAttributeSet pras = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
pras.add(new Copies(1));
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE;
PrintService service = ServiceUI.printDialog(null, 200, 200, printService, defaultService, flavor, pras);
DocPrintJob job = service.createPrintJob();
DocAttributeSet das = new HashDocAttributeSet();
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(stream, flavor, das);
PrintJobWatcher pjw = new PrintJobWatcher(job);
job.print(doc, pras);
pjw.waitForDone();
The print dialog I get shows the correct default printer (as below), plus the list of other available printers:
If I change the printer to "Microsoft print to PDF", I get an empty (0kb) pdf. Interestingly, if I tick "Print to File" I get a prn file with the correct contents ("hello world! FF").
What am I missing?
In the context of a bigger application, my applet needs to print some data to a Zebra or a Dymo (depending on what the user has installed) label printer.
The data i receive is in an escaped form, data that i just need to send to the printer and let it interpret it.
Searching i've found two solutions.
Method 1:
byte[] printdata;
PrintService pservice = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService(); //or get the printer in some other way
DocPrintJob job = pservice.createPrintJob();
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.AUTOSENSE;
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(printdata, flavor, null);
and method 2:
PrintStream printStream = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(“LPT1”));
printStream.print(“Hello World”);
printStream.close();
I need this to work cross-platform, with printers using the USB or the serial port.
What is the correct way to implement this behaviour?
One problem with method 2 is that i would need to find the URL of the printer in same way...
public String rawprint(String printerName, String conte) {
String res = "";
PrintServiceAttributeSet printServiceAttributeSet = new HashPrintServiceAttributeSet();
printServiceAttributeSet.add(new PrinterName(printerName, null));
PrintService printServices[] = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(null, printServiceAttributeSet);
if (printServices.length != 1) {
return "Can't select printer :" + printerName;
}
byte[] printdata = conte.getBytes();
PrintService pservice = printServices[0];
DocPrintJob job = pservice.createPrintJob();
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.AUTOSENSE;
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(printdata, flavor, null);
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
try {
job.print(doc, aset);
} catch(Exception e){
res = e.getMessage();
}
return res;
}
Works cool in javafx
Hex printouts are trustworthy. Call String.getBytes(encoding), then use System.out.format to print each byte as a hexadecimal number.
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);