JTable Pageable Printing problems

Question

I've been searching all day, and I just don't understand.
I have three JTables that I would like to print in a single report. I have made a class that implements the pageable interface, much as the Book class. I get a printJob, set the pageable to my new class, display the print dialog, and call print. I only get the first page of the first table to appear, however.
I thought that the way pageable would work would be to call getPrintable(int index) for every page defined by the getNumberOfPages function. Since I have three tables, and I don't know how best to figure out how many pages they will take up, I hardcoded (for now) the getNumberOfPages to return 3. I see that this is passed to the print dialog. Then I have getPrintable set up to return the Printable from a JTable from calling the table's getPrintable(format,Message, Message) method, with the page number specifying which table I go to. I see with some debugging that the pageable class is seeing calls for page 0 and page 1, but no page 2. And even stranger, page 1 should direct it to the printable of the 2nd table, but it doesn't print anything other than the first page of the first table.
I've tried using Book instead, and have the same result. I've tried using 'unknown number of pages' as the number returned and also have the same result. It doesn't appear that the JTable's print() functions are being called, so I assume that the printable that is returned calls the paint functions of JTable directly. I also see that printables return -1 when there are no more pages left to print but I don't see where, in this implementation, I can access and check that value. The main example on printing JTables in JSE5.0 uses the print functions of the JTable directly, which I don't know how to use in a pageable interface so I can get all three tables in the same printout.
Any help?
//excerpt of class that is pageable:
     public int getNumberOfPages() {               
          return 3;
     public PageFormat getPageFormat(int arg0) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {
          PageFormat pf = new PageFormat();
          pf.setOrientation(PageFormat.LANDSCAPE);
          return pf;
     public Printable getPrintable(int index) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {
          Printable p = null;
          System.out.println("P" + index);
          if (index == 0)
               p =Table1.getPrintable(JTable.PrintMode.NORMAL,null,null);
          if (index == 1)
               p =Table2.getPrintable(JTable.PrintMode.NORMAL,null,null);
          if (index == 2)
                  p =Table3.getPrintable(JTable.PrintMode.NORMAL,null,null);
          return p;
//excerpt, the part that calls the printing up
//PrintManager is the Pageable piece
          PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
          PrintManager pm = new PrintManager(table1,table2,table3);
          pj.setPageable(pm);
          if (pj.printDialog()) {
            try {
                pj.print();
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
        }

Answer 1

I am trying to print a JTable, however when it prints, it displays a black border around the table. I am sure there is nothing wrong with my code, but is there anything I can do to prevent this border from showing?
I'd appreciate any help with this.
My code only calls the print method in the JTable class.
MessageFormat headerFmt, footerFmt;
JTable.PrintMode printMode = fitWidth ? JTable.PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH : JTable.PrintMode.NORMAL;
if (header != null && header.length() > 0)
headerFmt = new MessageFormat(header);
else
headerFmt = null;
if (footer != null && footer.length() > 0)
footerFmt = new MessageFormat(footer);
else
footerFmt = null;
try {
boolean status = tableView.print(printMode, headerFmt, footerFmt);
....