PrintUtilities.java

/*
Copyright (C) 2011  Diego Darriba, David Posada

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 */
package es.uvigo.darwin.jmodeltest.utilities;

/*
 * http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/124/print
 * http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Swing-Tutorial/Swing-Tutorial-Printing.html
 *
 * And also from a post on the forums at java.swing.com. My apologies that do not have
 * a link to that post, by my hat goes off to the poster because he/she figured out the
 * sticky problem of paging properly when printing a Swing component.
 */
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.print.PageFormat;
import java.awt.print.Printable;
import java.awt.print.PrinterException;
import java.awt.print.PrinterJob;

import javax.swing.RepaintManager;

public class PrintUtilities implements Printable {
  private Component componentToBePrinted;
  
  public static void printComponent(Component c) {
    new PrintUtilities(c).print();
  }
  
  public PrintUtilities(Component componentToBePrinted) {
    this.componentToBePrinted = componentToBePrinted;
  }
  
  public void print() {
    PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
    printJob.setPrintable(this);
    if (printJob.printDialog())
      try {
        printJob.print();
      }
      catch (PrinterException pe) {
        System.err.println("Error printing: " + pe);
      }
  }

  public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex) {
    int response = NO_SUCH_PAGE;
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    // for faster printing, turn off double buffering
    disableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
    Dimension d = componentToBePrinted.getSize(); //get size of document
    double panelWidth = d.width; //width in pixels
    double panelHeight = d.height; //height in pixels
    double pageHeight = pf.getImageableHeight(); //height of printer page
    double pageWidth = pf.getImageableWidth(); //width of printer page
    double scale = pageWidth / panelWidth;
    int totalNumPages = (int) Math.ceil(scale * panelHeight / pageHeight);
    // make sure not print empty pages
    if (pageIndex >= totalNumPages) {
      response = NO_SUCH_PAGE;
    }
    else {
      // shift Graphic to line up with beginning of print-imageable region
      g2.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
      // shift Graphic to line up with beginning of next page to print
      g2.translate(0f, -pageIndex * pageHeight);
      // scale the page so the width fits...
      g2.scale(scale, scale);
      componentToBePrinted.paint(g2); //repaint the page for printing
      enableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
      response = Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
    }
    return response;
  }

  public static void disableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
    RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
    currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
  }

  public static void enableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
    RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
    currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true);
  }
}