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);
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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'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.
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
im trying to print a pdf in A4 size but the output varies from the expected one.
this is what it looks like
but it supposed to be like this
both images are same resolution
this is the code that generates this output.
PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
pj.setPrintService(service);
PageFormat pf = new PageFormat();
Paper paper = new Paper();
paper.setSize(595, 842); // a4 in px
paper.setImageableArea(0, 0, 595, 842);
pf.setPaper(paper);
Book book = new Book();
book.append(pages, pf, pdfFile.getNumPages());
pj.setPageable(book);
pj.print();
basically its just shrunk. what should i do to fix this?
and by the way, im not using a real printer. im using a virtual printer that takes a print request and outputs a pdf.
i have found a solution to this. i used javax.print library instead of java.awt.print.
File file = new File("path/to/pdf");
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PDF;
PrintRequestAttributeSet attr = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
attr.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(fis, flavor, null);
DocPrintJob job = printService.createPrintJob();
job.print(doc, attr);
fis.close();
now it gets printed correctly.
Hey everyone ,
I'm facing a real problem here while trying to print a pdf file using java print .
The problem is that when i send the file to the printer using print() method with cute pdf the file is well printed but with a real printer it couldn't be done .
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try{
File file = new File(toprint);
InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE;
DocPrintJob job = p.createPrintJob();//p here is my printservice printer
HashPrintRequestAttributeSet printRequestSet = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
HashDocAttributeSet ds=new HashDocAttributeSet();
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(is, flavor, null);
job.print(doc, aset);
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("An exception occured while printing the file "+ e);
}
`
I've tried it so many times but it doesn't work.
Any ideas?
I think your printer may not have support for pdf, in this case you will have to render it using a pdf renderer.
Look at http://java.net/projects/pdf-renderer and pageable print page.
If you find it helpful I will provide code samples.