Double-Sided

freesoft_2000 · 02-01-2005, 01:31 AM

Hi everyone,

I am currently trying to print a swing component a JTable to be exact but the thing is that i want my user to be able to print even, odd or all the pages. The thing is i am using the swing print dialog and not the windows native one.

When i write i use the printer job the java printing system will call the page indexes as follows:

Code:

print(graphics, pageFormat, 0) 
print(graphics, pageFormat, 1)
print(graphics, pageFormat, 2)

As you can see from above all the page numbers are called sequentially until NO_SUCH_PAGE is returned.

Well what i am trying to say is that is possible to make the java printing system only call odd page indexes
something like this

Code:

print(graphics, pageFormat, 0) 
print(graphics, pageFormat, 2)
print(graphics, pageFormat, 4)

I know that it is also possible to print double side page by adding attributes to the PrintRequestAttributeSet class by using the below line

Code:

.add(Sides.DUPLEX)

This is not a very good option as it requires an expensive printer for this and not many users have this type of expensive printer.

I hope i haven't confused you guys and maybe someone can explain or guide me to a way to printing even and odd pages.

Please note that the JTable is three pages long

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West

Belisarius · 02-01-2005, 04:18 AM

Can't you encapsulate that into a loop? I'm not familiar with printing in Java, but it looks like you're manually prinitng each page, so something (this is pseudo code, as I'm not sure of the actual way to access the variables):

Code:

int i = 0;
while(true){
  if(NO_SUCH_PAGE){
    break;
  }
  print(graphics, pageFormat, i);
  i = i + 2;
}