Printing
This
lesson teaches you how to use the Java Printing API to print from your
Java applications. You'll learn how to render the contents of your
components to a printer instead of a display device and how to compose
and print multi-page documents.
This lesson assumes that you've read
Overview of the Java 2D API
and are familiar with using a
Graphics2D
rendering context.
This section gives an overview of the support for printing AWT and Java
2D graphics and describes the Java Printing model.
Learn how to create a PrinterJob
and use a Printable
to print the contents of a component.
This section describes the standard page setup dialog and teaches you
how to use it to allow a user to set up a print job.
In this section, you find out how to set up a Book
to print a collection of pages that do not all have the same size or
orientation.
