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Note that both the J2PrinterWorks Text Edition and the J2PrinterWorks Table Edition include the J2PanelPrinter and J2FlowPrinter classes so, for example, the J2PrinterWorks Table Edition can print multiple JTable instances intermixed with titles, captions, small blocks of text, and small images within the same document.
Detailed J2PrinterWorks Features
The following are the features of each of the main classes of J2PrinterWorks, with new 4.0 features highlighted:
Printing mechanism
Classes:
J2Printer
J2Printer14
J2PrinterWebStart |
Pageable & Book support (prints one or more Pageables including your own)
Per-Pageable control of headers/footers, margins, orientation, centering, scale
Print Preview dialog, including page controls, zoom controls, and one or two page display
Developer-customizable Print Preview dialog using icon buttons and toolbar
Anti-aliased print preview display
Support for English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish locales
Page Setup dialog
Improved wait cursor support for dialogs
Background printing thread with print progress events and PrintingEventHandler adapter class
"Silent" printing (no Print Dialog)
"N-up" printing
Print to Postscript file (requires JDK 1.4 or later) , direct to Postscript printer support
Print to PDF file (using open source iText.jar component)
Display and print PDF file (using Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Print to HTML slide show
Control page number of first page of document
Java Web Start printing support using the JNLP APIs
Support for Headless operation
Supports (under JDK 1.4.x or later):
printer discovery
programmatic printer selection
printer properties
cross-platform or native dialogs
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Common features
Classes:
J2TextPrinterJ2TablePrinter
J2TreePrinter
J2ListPrinter
J2PanelPrinter J2ComponentPrinter
J2FlowPrinter |
Paginates across multiple pages
Headers & footers (left, center, and right, first vs. rest-of-pages control)
Headers & footers can contain multiple lines, rich text, images, date, time, & page numbering
Automatic localization of default date, time, and page number strings in headers and footers
Margins (left, right, top, and bottom)
Centering (horizontal and/or vertical)
Orientation (portrait, landscape)
Scaling (percentage or fit-to-page(s))
Optional surrounding box and white background
Support for Java Borders
Control maximum gap before page breaks
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Additional features
J2TextPrinter |
Prints any JTextPane, JEditorPane, or JTextArea class or subclass
Paginates over multiple pages vertically
Breaks pages on line boundaries
Can reflow text to page width or preserve WYSIWYG layout
Supports native JTextPane (StyledDocument) rich text formatting
Also supports HTML and RTF documents (subject to Java limitations)
"Direct print" for printing user entries in HTML <form>
Embedded graphics (e.g., .gif, .jpg, Image, ...)
Embedded components (e.g., JLabel, JPanel, JTable, ...)
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Additional features
J2TablePrinter |
Prints any JTable or JTable subclass
Paginates over multiple pages horizontally & vertically
Separate horizontal & vertical pagination modes
BREAK_ON_ROWS, BREAK_ON_COLUMNS pagiantion modes break on row and/or column boundaries
BREAK_ON_COLOR pagination mode breaks on color (e.g. gridline) boundaries, handles complex (e.g. nested) JTables
SHRINK_TO_FIT pagination mode rescales to fit with a single page width and/or height
Print area (row & column subset)
Column header replication (all pages, top pages only, or none)
Row header replication (all pages, left pages only, or none)
Variable row height (JDK 1.3 or later) & column width
Supports custom table cell renderers
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Additional features
J2TreePrinter |
Prints any JTree or JTree subclass
Breaks pages on tree node (row) boundaries
Paginates over multiple pages vertically
Automatically rescales JTree to fit available page width
Supports custom tree cell renderers
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Additional features
J2ListPrinter |
Prints any JList or JList subclass
Breaks pages on list item (row) boundaries
Paginates over multiple pages vertically
Automatically rescales JList to fit available page width
Supports custom list cell renderers
Supports layout orientations HORIZONTAL_WRAP and VERTICAL_WRAP (JDK 1.4 or later) |
Additional features
J2PanelPrinter |
Prints any JPanel or JPanel subclass
Also can be used for smaller (<1 page) Components, Containers wtth smaller Components, and Images
SHRINK_TO_FIT mode rescales to fit within single page width and height
TILE mode paginates over multiple pages horizontally and vertically, breaking on pixel boundaries
BREAK_ON_COMPONENTS mode paginates horizontally and vertically, breaking on contained Component boundaries
SHRINK_TO_WIDTH mode rescales to fit within single page width, breaking vertically on pixel boundaries |
Additional features
J2ComponentPrinter |
Prints any Java Component or subclass thereof, including many third-party Components
Appropriate for larger (multi-page) Components, Containers, and Images
Separate horizontal & vertical pagination modes
SHRINK_TO_FIT mode rescales to fit within single page width and/or height
TILE mode paginates over multiple pages horizontally and/or vertically, breaking on pixel boundaries
BREAK_ON_COMPONENTS mode paginates horizontally and/or vertically, breaking on contained Component boundaries
BREAK_ON_COLOR mode paginates horizontally and/or vertically, breaking on color (e.g. white space) boundaries |
Additional features
J2FlowPrinter |
Can print any sequence of Flowables back-to-back as a single Pageable
Per-Flowable control of scaling and centering
Additional Flowables include VerticalGap, HorizontalLine, PageEject
Used to embed multi-page tables, images, etc. in rich text documents including captions, titles, legends, etc. |
| Other product features |
General-purpose ImagePanel including support for scaling and Java Borders
General-purpose JLabel subclass with better control of HTML fonts and color
Works under JDK 1.2.x, 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x
Works under Windows, Mac, Unix
Includes one year Annual Maintenance contract (renewable)
Complete source code for 25 sample programs
Developer-based pricing, no run-time royalties |
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