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- <head><title>GNU Classpath - javax.print</title></head>
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- Provides the basic interfaces and classes of the Java Print Service API.
- <p>
- The Java Print Service API enables programmers to:
- <ul>
- <li>Discover print services for printing to printer devices and to output
- streams. The discovery process can be constrained to return only print
- services supporting specific document formats or printing attributes.</li>
- <li>Print client-formatted print data like Postscript, PDF or various
- image formats and service-formatted print data from Java.</li>
- <li>Submit, cancel and monitor single and multi document print jobs.</li>
- <li>Provide users a graphical print service browser with printing attribute
- selection.</li>
- </ul>
- </p>
- <p>
- <h2>Print Service Discovery</h2>
- Print service types in the JPS API:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="PrintService.html">PrintService</a>:<br>The base interface
- describing a print service capable of printing a supplied document for a
- given document format to the printer device it is representing.</li><br>
- <li><a href="MultiDocPrintService.html">MultiDocPrintService</a>:<br>Extends
- the PrintService interface and provides a print service which is capable of
- printing multiple documents as one print job to its printer device.</li><br>
- <li><a href="StreamPrintService.html">StreamPrintService</a>:<br>Extends the
- PrintService interface and provides a print service which is capable of
- printing into a supplied output stream instead of to a physical printer
- device.</li>
- </ul>
- </p>
- <p>
- <h4>PrintService, MultiDocPrintService</h4>
- Discovery is done by the use of the static methods in the
- <a href="PrintServiceLookup.html">PrintServiceLookup</a> class. The discovery
- process can be constrained by supplying the document formats and printing
- attributes that need to be supported by the returned print service. Furthermore
- the <a href="PrintServiceLookup.html#lookupDefaultPrintService()">
- lookupDefaultPrintService()</a> method enables to lookup the default print
- service of the platforms printing system.
- </p>
- <p>
- <h4>StreamPrintService</h4>
- StreamPrintService provides the same functionality as a print service for output
- to a supplied <code>OutputStream</code>. Available stream print services are
- discovered via the static methods in the <a href="StreamPrintServiceFactory.html">
- StreamPrintServiceFactory</a> factory. The query can be constrained by supplying
- the the requested document format support and the needed output format.
- </p>
- <h2>Document formats</h2>
- The format of the printing documents are specified by the
- <a href="DocFlavor.html">DocFlavor</a> class in the JPS API. It provides the
- description of the format in which the print data will be supplied in a print
- job to the print service and consists of two parts:
- <ul>
- <li>The MIME type (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions types as described in
- RFC 2045/2046) specifying the media format of the print data.</li>
- <br>
- <li>The representation class name which is the fully qualified name of the
- class providing the print data to the print job. For example if the print data
- is supplied as a byte array the representation class name will be "[B" or for
- an input stream "java.io.InputStream".</li>
- </ul>
- The Java Print Service API differentiates between two types of print data,
- client-formatted and service-formatted. Client-formatted print data is already
- provided in a formatted representation by the client e.g. in an image format
- or as postscript. For service-formatted print data, the Java Print Service
- implementation produces the formatted print data. Here the doc flavor's
- representation class name does specify an interface instead of the actual
- print data source. The print service will call the methods of the given
- implementation of this interface with a special Graphics object capable of
- producing formatted print data from the graphics routines inside the
- interface methods.
- </ul>
- <h2>Printing attributes</h2>
- Print services as well as print jobs report their state and capabilities
- by the way of supplying printing attributes. Also the behaviour of print
- jobs (like how many copies should be printed) is controlled via printing
- attributes. For these requirements the JPS API defines different roles
- of attributes and common syntax classes in the package
- <code>javax.print.attribute</code>. The actual available printing attributes
- are implemented in the <code>javax.print.attribute.standard</code> package.
- <ul>
- <li>Print service attributes:<br>
- These printing attributes of role
- <a href="attribute/PrintServiceAttribute.html">PrintServiceAttribute</a> report
- the status and other informations of a PrintService. Example for informations
- available in the print services attributes are the attribute
- <code>PagesPerMinute</code> providing the number of pages a printer can print
- per minute. Status attributes like the <code>PrinterState</code> attribute
- gives the current state (e.g. printer currently processes or is idle) of the
- printer.</li>
- <br>
- <li>Print job attributes:<br>
- Print job attributes of role <a href="attribute/PrintJobAttribute.html">
- PrintJobAttribute</a> inform about the status of given print job. For example
- the <code>NumberOfInterveningJobs</code> attribute provides the number of jobs
- ahead in the print service queue before this job. Status attributes like the
- <code>JobState</code> attribute gives the current state of the print job (like
- pending, processing or canceled).</li>
- <br>
- <li>Print request attributes:<br>
- The attributes of role <a href="attribute/PrintRequestAttribute.html">
- PrintRequestAttribute</a> specify the behaviour of a complete print job.
- The print request attributes apply to all documents in a print job, whereas
- the doc attributes only apply to the specific document in a print job.
- Most of the print request attributes are also doc attributes and therefore
- implementing both attribute role interfaces.
- </li>
- <br>
- <li>Doc attributes:<br>
- As described above the <a href="attribute/PrintJobAttribute.html">
- PrintJobAttribute</a> attributes are specific to a single document in the
- print job.
- </li>
- </ul>
- <h2>Example of using the API</h2>
- <pre>
- import java.io.*;
- <br>
- import javax.print.*;
- import javax.print.attribute.*;
- import javax.print.attribute.standard.*;
- import javax.print.event.*;
- <br>
- public class Beispiel
- {
- public static void main(String[] args)
- {
- // Using the predefined doc flavor for postscript mimetype
- DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.POSTSCRIPT;
- <br>
- // Looking for printservice supporting this doc flavor
- PrintService[] services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, null);
- <br>
- // Just take the first
- PrintService service = services[0];
- System.out.println("Name :" + service.getName());
- <br>
- try
- {
- // Create a print job
- DocPrintJob job = service.createPrintJob();
- <br>
- // We want to print a file so we construct an inputstream
- // on the file to supply the print data as given in the doc flavor
- File file = new File("File.ps");
- InputStream stream = new FileInputStream(file);
- <br>
- // Build a attribute set with the wanted printing attributes
- HashPrintRequestAttributeSet attr = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
- attr.add(new Copies(2)); // two copies
- attr.add(new PageRanges(2, 7)); // only the 2-7 pages
- <br>
- // Construct a doc object with the provided class SimpleDoc
- SimpleDoc doc = new SimpleDoc(stream, flavor, null);
- <br>
- // register us as the print - use the adapter class
- // and override the interesing failure condition
- job.addPrintJobListener(new PrintJobAdapter()
- {
- public void printJobFailed(PrintJobEvent arg0)
- {
- System.out.println("The PrintJob failed.");
- }
- });
- <br>
- // start the printing process
- job.print(doc, attr);
- <br>
- // lets assume we want to cancel it
- if (job instanceof CancelablePrintJob)
- {
- CancelablePrintJob cancelJob = (CancelablePrintJob) job;
- cancelJob.cancel();
- }
- <br>
- }
- catch (PrintException e)
- {
- e.printStackTrace();
- }
- catch (FileNotFoundException e)
- {
- e.printStackTrace();
- }
- }
- }
- </pre>
- <p>
- <b>Since:</b> 1.4
- </p>
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