Showing posts with label java print document. Show all posts
Showing posts with label java print document. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Java Print file to Printer


package reportlast;
/**
 * @author icebreakersandy
 * e. sndpdevhare10@gmail.com
 */
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.text.*;
import static javax.management.Query.lt;
/**
 * Using JAVA to print simple text file to a printer
 */
public class PrintFileToPrinter implements Printable {
    static AttributedString myStyledText = null;
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        /**Location of a file to print**/
        String fileName = "D://Icebreakersandy//26-12-13//Header.txt";
      //  String fileName = "C:/Temp/abc.txt";
        /**Read the text content from this location **/
        String mText = readContentFromFileToPrint(fileName);
        /**Create an AttributedString object from the text read*/
        myStyledText = new AttributedString(mText);
        printToPrinter();
    }
    /**
     * This method reads the content of a text file.
     * The location of the file is provided in the parameter
     */
    private static String readContentFromFileToPrint(String fileName) {
        String dataToPrint = "";
        try {
            BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
            String line = "";
            /**Read the file and populate the data**/
            while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
                dataToPrint += line + "\n";
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return dataToPrint;
        }
        return dataToPrint;
    }

    /**
     * Printing the data to a printer.
     * Initialization done in this method.
     */
    public static void printToPrinter() {
        /**
         * Get a Printer Job
         */
        PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();

        /**
         * Create a book. A book contains a pair of page painters
         * called <span id="IL_AD4" class="IL_AD">printables</span>. Also you have different pageformats.
         */
        Book book = new Book();
        /**
         * Append the Printable Object (this one itself, as it
         * implements a printable interface) and the page format.
         */
        book.append(new PrintFileToPrinter(), new PageFormat());
        /**
         * Set the object to be printed (the Book) into the PrinterJob. Doing this
         * before bringing up the print dialog allows the print dialog to correctly
         * display the page range to be printed and to dissallow any print settings not
         * appropriate for the pages to be printed.
         */
        printerJob.setPageable(book);

        /**
         * Calling the printDialog will pop up <span id="IL_AD11" class="IL_AD">the Printing</span> Dialog.
         * If you want to print without user <span id="IL_AD10" class="IL_AD">confirmation</span>, you can directly call printerJob.print()
         *
         * doPrint will be false, if the user cancels the print operation.
         */
        boolean doPrint = printerJob.printDialog();

        if (doPrint) {
            try {
                printerJob.print();
            } catch (PrinterException ex) {
                System.err.println("Error occurred while trying to Print: "
                        + ex);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * This method comes from the Printable interface.
     * The method implementation in this class
     * prints a page of text.
     */
    public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pageIndex) {

        Graphics2D graphics2d = (Graphics2D) g;
        /**
         * Move the origin from the corner of the Paper to the corner of the imageable
         * area.
         */
        graphics2d.translate(format.getImageableX(), format.getImageableY());

        /** Setting the text color**/
        graphics2d.setPaint(Color.black);
        /**
         * Use a LineBreakMeasurer instance to break our text into lines that fit the
         * imageable area of the page.
         */
        Point2D.Float pen = new Point2D.Float();
        AttributedCharacterIterator charIterator = myStyledText.getIterator();
        LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(charIterator,
                graphics2d.getFontRenderContext());
        float wrappingWidth = (float) format.getImageableWidth();
        while (measurer.getPosition()< charIterator.getEndIndex()) {
            TextLayout layout = measurer.nextLayout(wrappingWidth);
            pen.y += layout.getAscent();
            float dx = layout.isLeftToRight() ? 0 : (wrappingWidth - layout
                    .getAdvance());
            layout.draw(graphics2d, pen.x + dx, pen.y);
            pen.y += layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
        }
        return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
    }

}