Printing from Java

fbreuer · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject: Printing from Java

In a number of Java applications (e.g. Apache's Batik) I get a message saying "printing service not found" when I try to print a document. How can I set up a printing service for use with Java? I would be content if I could print to a file/generate a postscript file. Any ideas where I should start looking...?

Thanks, Felix

phelan · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject:

What Java version do you run?
What version have the applications been developed for?

I'm asking because printing works fine without any configuration from a self developed app running with JRE 1.4.1

fbreuer · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:13 pm Post subject:

I am using version 1.4.0. Batik's webpage states JDK 1.3 as a requirement. Do you think that this is an application specific problem? jEdit produces the same error and mentions JDK 1.4 as recommended platform.

I will try a binary installation of JDK 1.4.1 and see what happens...

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Probably need to configure something. Installing binaries won't help.

MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

I can print without any problems. I got a working CUPS installation and I'm using sun-jdk-1.4.1. However printing Landscape seems to be broken with the Linux SDK in this version. Everything else works well.
Can you print from non java apps?

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Landscape just won't work for me... It always prints it without rotating 90. In any program...

MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

If I try to print landscape I get some weird Image Transformation Exception (something like that) somewhere deep inside the java classes - cant pin that one down so I guess it's an sdk/vm problem.

fbreuer · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject:

MIT_Service: I do not have a CUPS installation due to the fact that there is no printer conncted to my machine. I can, however print to PostScript files from most applications (Mozilla, Evolution, gEdit, TeXmacs,...)

Does this mean, that I have to have a printer to be able to use java to print to a file? Or do I just have to have a printing service running? How do I configure CUPS to work as some kind of dummy printing service?

MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

Java printing should work without cups. However some printing service should be installed.
You might try installing cups and see if it works out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml
If not I guess the best try is to look at suns official support and bugreport forums.

alanokeefe · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

Hi all

I have the same problem with my Sun JDK 1.5, however, if I manually over-ride the JVM and use the Blackdown 1.4.2 jre installed, it works, so it's probably an installation problem with the Sun Java install.

Anyone know anywhere that you can configure the print service in Sun JDK 1.5 ? (I looked in the ControlPanel application, no joy).

Thanks and regards
Alan

roki942 · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject:

I've also run into this problem ... finally found this in buzilla.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157126
Going to try it tomorrow when I get back ... hope it doesn't mess up printing in non-java pgms

roki942 · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: