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CHAPTER
5
Printing and Streaming 2D Graphics
The Java 2D
printing API is the java.awt.print package and
provides for creating a PrinterJob, displaying a printer dialog to
the user, and printing paginated graphics using the same
java.awt.Graphics and java.awt.Graphics2D classes that are used to
draw to the screen.
Many of the features
in the Java Print Service, such as printer discovery
and specification of printing attributes, are also very important
to users of the Java 2D printing API. To make these features
available to users of Java 2D printing, the java.awt.print package
allows access to the Java Print Service from the Java 2D printing
API.
Developers of Java
2D printing applications have four ways of using the Java Print
Service with the Java 2D API:
- Print 2D graphics
using PrinterJob.
- Stream 2D graphics
using PrinterJob
- Print 2D graphics
using DocPrintJob and a service-formatted DocFlavor
- Stream 2D graphics
using DocPrintJob and a service-formatted DocFlavor
The Using PrinterJob to Print or
Stream Graphics section explains the first two methods.
The Using
Service-Formatted Data section explains the other two
methods.
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