Comments on: Pure Java Print PDF Open Source API

By: Mamoun

Mamoun — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:36:25 +0000

its fantastic thank you a lot

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:07:39 +0000

Marvelous, TQVM

By: MadisonYE

MadisonYE — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:16:39 +0000

I've just found this site theas400.com, could I just borrow the technical data from the site or do I need some kind of permission?. I am doing a project for school. Madison

By: jaffarsn

jaffarsn — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:39:49 +0000

Hi venkat,

I have put the jar file into lib folder and tried to compile the prindpdf.java file and it throws the error as follows:
PrintPdf.java:15: package com.sun.pdfview does not exist
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile;
^
PrintPdf.java:16: package com.sun.pdfview does not exist
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFPage;
^
PrintPdf.java:17: package com.sun.pdfview does not exist
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFRenderer;
^
PrintPdf.java:102: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFFile
location: class PDFPrintPage
private PDFFile file;
^
PrintPdf.java:104: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFFile
location: class PDFPrintPage
PDFPrintPage(PDFFile file) {
^
PrintPdf.java:74: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFFile
location: class PrintPdf
PDFFile pdfFile = new PDFFile(bb);
^
PrintPdf.java:74: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFFile
location: class PrintPdf
PDFFile pdfFile = new PDFFile(bb);
^
PrintPdf.java:112: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFPage
location: class PDFPrintPage
PDFPage page = file.getPage(pagenum);
^
PrintPdf.java:118: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFRenderer
location: class PDFPrintPage
PDFRenderer pgs = new PDFRenderer(page, g2, imageArea, n
ull, null);
^
PrintPdf.java:118: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PDFRenderer
location: class PDFPrintPage
PDFRenderer pgs = new PDFRenderer(page, g2, imageArea, n
ull, null);
^
10 errors

Please suggest me to resolve this.

Thanks in Advance.

By: Terin

Terin — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:27:08 +0000

I could not find the pdfrenderer.jar file on the java.net website..Can u pls sent it to me

By: Sanjeevi

Sanjeevi — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:39:09 +0000

Hi venkat,

I tried your code, but it is throwing exception, and the file is created with partial text.
I am posting the generated exception here.

com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Encode required for function type 3!
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType3.parse(FunctionType3.java:139)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.ShaderType2.parse(ShaderType2.java:109)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:173)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported shader type: 3
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:135)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported shader type: 3
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:135)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported shader type: 3
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:135)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported shader type: 3
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:135)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported shader type: 3
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:135)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported shader type: 3
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:135)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of color/alpha components should be 4 but length of bits array is 1
at java.awt.image.ColorModel.(ColorModel.java:318)
at java.awt.image.ComponentColorModel.(ComponentColorModel.java:256)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage$DecodeComponentColorModel.(PDFImage.java:564)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage.getColorModel(PDFImage.java:529)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage.parseData(PDFImage.java:270)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage.getImage(PDFImage.java:225)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFRenderer.drawImage(PDFRenderer.java:273)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImageCmd.execute(PDFPage.java:643)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFRenderer.iterate(PDFRenderer.java:570)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at PDFPrintPage.print(NewClass.java:42)
at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.printPage(RasterPrinterJob.java:1936)
at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(RasterPrinterJob.java:1431)
at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(RasterPrinterJob.java:1247)
at PrintPdf.print(PrintPdf.java:99)
at PrintPdf.main(PrintPdf.java:40)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of color/alpha components should be 4 but length of bits array is 1
at java.awt.image.ColorModel.(ColorModel.java:318)
at java.awt.image.ComponentColorModel.(ComponentColorModel.java:256)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage$DecodeComponentColorModel.(PDFImage.java:564)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage.getColorModel(PDFImage.java:529)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage.parseData(PDFImage.java:270)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImage.getImage(PDFImage.java:225)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFRenderer.drawImage(PDFRenderer.java:273)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFImageCmd.execute(PDFPage.java:643)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFRenderer.iterate(PDFRenderer.java:570)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at PDFPrintPage.print(NewClass.java:42)
at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.printPage(RasterPrinterJob.java:1964)
at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(RasterPrinterJob.java:1431)
at sun.print.RasterPrinterJob.print(RasterPrinterJob.java:1247)
at PrintPdf.print(PrintPdf.java:99)
at PrintPdf.main(PrintPdf.java:40)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Encode required for function type 3!
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType3.parse(FunctionType3.java:139)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.ShaderType2.parse(ShaderType2.java:109)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:173)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Encode required for function type 3!
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType3.parse(FunctionType3.java:139)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.ShaderType2.parse(ShaderType2.java:109)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:173)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Unsupported function type 4.
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType4.parse(FunctionType4.java:828)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.colorspace.PDFColorSpace.getColorSpace(PDFColorSpace.java:175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.parseColorSpace(PDFParser.java:1229)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:648)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Encode required for function type 3!
at com.sun.pdfview.function.FunctionType3.parse(FunctionType3.java:139)
at com.sun.pdfview.function.PDFFunction.getFunction(PDFFunction.java:168)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.ShaderType2.parse(ShaderType2.java:109)
at com.sun.pdfview.pattern.PDFShader.getShader(PDFShader.java:173)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.doShader(PDFParser.java:1151)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFParser.iterate(PDFParser.java:640)
at com.sun.pdfview.BaseWatchable.run(BaseWatchable.java:101)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Thanks,
Sanjeevi

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:55:36 +0000

@Praveen: did you get it working on your AS400 ? I am trying to do sometinhg similar but unfortunately the call to PrinterJob.lookupPrintServices() is giving me an empty list. With IBM supplied classes I can get a list of 55 available printers. So why is the lookup empty?

By: Raghu

Raghu — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:49:23 +0000

Hi Venkat,

Great posting. Thank you very much.

I have integrated PDFRender API and your code, PrintPdf via the a servlet called PDFRendererServlet. I made a small change on the PrintPdf file to display the print dialog by the line pjob.printDialog() on the browser.

I am running tomcat (6.x) as the app server. I use eclipse ide installed on macbook pro. When I run the server and test locally it works fine (say, http://localhost:8080/pdfWeb/PDFRendererServlet).

While the server is running on the macbook, and test the print capability via a IE from the windows XP desktop computer (which is in network), I see the print dialog box on the macbook rather than on the windows XP desktop computer.

Appreciate if you could help me out what am I doing wrong or any other fix or code modifications needed.

Raghu

By: Ravie

Ravie — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:01:29 +0000

HI….

as your code is too much useful to me but still I’m confused with a problem..
In this code u r using below line to select a default printer.
pjob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();

Instead I want to use any printer which is selected by me(using combo).

and to do that I’ve used setPrintService(PrintService[i]); method of PrinterJob class. But it gives me NullPointerException. So what could be the solution to this one???

pls reply its urgent…

By: Whofeih

Whofeih — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:07:53 +0000

It did not work when i tried it. Upon running my application, it asks me where to save the TIFF file. That’s weird. Please help me. Thanks!

By: Asishthat

Asishthat — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:14:23 +0000

While the code is very useful yet there is no way of knowing when the printer is offline, Paper ran out, printer not connected. How do we make them a part of this so that we can handle the exceptions. It seems that once we send the document it hands it over and doesn’t return the exception. The Printer Icon on system tray shows error to Cancel printing.

Any Ideas

By: lamartini

lamartini — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:53:27 +0000

https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectForumMessageView?forumID=2969&messageID=31058 OOOhhps here is the link.

By: lamartini

lamartini — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:52:37 +0000

I try to print a pdf file programatically and get Xref error also as did madhavi.. The website link I provided shows a patch.. but Its not working for me.. If someone uses the patch and gets it working please post how you got it to work..

By: Mike A

Mike A — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:36:27 +0000

@mike smith: as coded, it uses the default printer, which in your case appears to be the “Microsoft XPS document writer” change your default printer and try it again.

By: Brian Hatfield

Brian Hatfield — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:12:02 +0000

I need to print PDF files on a local JES2 printer. DO you know if that is possible?

By: mike smith

mike smith — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:07:12 +0000

I am trying to implement your solution as per your code.

when running your code, I get a “saveAs” dialog appearing for me to save a document of type .xps

I am presuming the image is created from reading the pdf file and before printing it wants me to rename this before printing is activated.

My Question is, where in your code can I automate this so that:
1) I do not have to physically name the new image file
2) It stores the new file directly in a certain directly which I can then delete after printing is finished.

I need this because my requirement is that I print a hundred of so pdfs at a time, so I need to automate this in my webserver.

Your assistance is greatly appreicated.
Thanks

By: markee

markee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:30:55 +0000

Problem is in the PDF rendering of PDF-renderer which is not complete, not the printing

By: Krishna

Krishna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:23:23 +0000

Please download PDFRenderer.jar and use below code it will work for PDF Printing.

import java.awt.print.Book;
import java.awt.print.PageFormat;
import java.awt.print.Printable;
import java.awt.print.PrinterException;
import java.awt.print.PrinterJob;
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;

import javax.print.PrintException;

import com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile;
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFPrintPage;
public class PDFPrinter {

public static void main(String[] args){

try{
File f = new File(“C:\\CareLink\\WPS\\WID_naming_conventions.pdf”);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
FileChannel fc = fis.getChannel();
ByteBuffer bb = fc.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, fc.size());
PDFFile pdfFile = new PDFFile(bb); // Create PDF Print Page
PDFPrintPage pages = new PDFPrintPage(pdfFile);

// Create Print Job
PrinterJob pjob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
PageFormat pf = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob().defaultPage();
pjob.setJobName(f.getName());
Book book = new Book();
book.append(pages, pf, pdfFile.getNumPages());
pjob.setPageable(book);

// Send print job to default printer
pjob.print();
System.out.print(“done”);
}catch(PrinterException exe){

}catch(IOException e){

}
}

}

By: Venkat

Venkat — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:31:55 +0000

Sorry guys, I have no clue about this error. Try posting the issue into https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/ if you don’t get response there my advice is look for commercial software.

I am planning to buy a commercial API for printing PDF because PDF spec and format will keep change expecting a open source to serve Adobe spec is not feasible.

By: Madhavi

Madhavi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:12:38 +0000

Hii Venkat,

Thanks for sharing your work..I have taken your files and tried in Java 1.5 and PDF 6..
I m getting the following error:

com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Expected ‘xref’ at start of table
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.readTrailer(PDFFile.java:974)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.parseFile(PDFFile.java:1175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.(PDFFile.java:126)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.(PDFFile.java:102)

Can u please help me in solving this issue?

Thanks in advance

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:08:37 +0000

I can’t get it to print correctly. Whether my in my own program or in the example program, printing portrait stuff always shrinks the page and prints it in the top left corner (its like 45% the size.) Regardless of the PDF I print (datasheets or ones I created with PDFlatex or itext) results are the same. same results on linux and XP as well.

The code is exactly from the example program (the example program does the same thing as mentioned above.)
Any help would be appreciated.

By: Marlon Alves

Marlon Alves — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:43:30 +0000

Great post!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks…

By: Rajashekar

Rajashekar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:06:19 +0000

Wow! thanks a lot venkat…..

That was really my bad…anyways thanks for the much needed help…

By: Venkat

Venkat — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:44:05 +0000

the pdf.jar contains java classes not .class files. Hope this info helps you.

By: Rajashekar

Rajashekar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:21:59 +0000

Hi Venkat,

Thanks for sharing the jar file….but i do have a problem.

I copied the same PrintPdf.java that you have provided and i added the pdf.jar to my library and configured in PlugIn.xml file also.

am not able to clear the errors that is being shown in the the import statements that are present in the PrintPdf.java.

import com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile;
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFPage;
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFRenderer;

The files PDFFile.java, PDFPage.java and PDFRenderer.java are not visible.
Even the sub-packages that are present in the pdfview package like: action, colospace are visible but again the classess inside these sub-packages are also not visible, an not able to import those java files too.

am struck as to where is the problem…..please guide me in resolving these errors…..

looking forward for you reply at the earliest….

Thanks in Advance….