Adding a header to a printout

Question

Hi,
I've a wee problem that I dont know how to solve.
I am printing out a swing component and scaling it to fit on the page. heres what ive done and it works fine:-
     if(e.getActionCommand().equals("print")){
          System.out.println("print pressed " + title);
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();          
printJob.setPrintable(this);
if(printJob.printDialog()){
try {
          printJob.print();
catch (Exception PrinterExeption) { PrinterExeption.printStackTrace();}
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pi) throws PrinterException {
if (pi >= 1) {
System.out.println("print failed");
return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
g2.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
g2.setColor(Color.black);
disableDoubleBuffering(this);
// find the scale factor and choose the smaller one
float scaleX = getScaleX(pf);
float scaleY = getScaleY(pf);
if(scaleX > scaleY){
scaleX = scaleY;} else {
scaleY = scaleX;}
g2.scale(scaleX,scaleY);
this.paintAll(g2);
enableDoubleBuffering(this);
g2.scale((1/scaleX),(1/scaleY));
System.out.println("print successful");
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
What I want to do is print a title onto the top of the page like a header. I cant just put this on the graphics object though because it would be scaled too.
So what would be really great is that is there a way to add a header to the printed page?!?!
cheers
pmiggy

Answer 1

nah I didnt want to annoy him anymore than usual!....
Um I've tried a few things and it hasnae worked.
I've used drawString() but its not printed it.. and doesn't the scaling scale the whole graphics which will include the text?!?!?
I dunno.
heres where i tried..
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pi) throws PrinterException {
    if (pi >= 1) {
          System.out.println("print failed");
      return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    g2.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
    g2.setColor(Color.black);
    disableDoubleBuffering(this);
1    g2.drawString("Model "+title,getSmallestX(),getSmallestY());   
    // find the scale factor and choose the smaller one
    float scaleX = getScaleX(pf);
    float scaleY = getScaleY(pf);
    if(scaleX > scaleY){
       scaleX = scaleY;} else {
          scaleY = scaleX;}
    g2.scale(scaleX,scaleY);
2    g2.drawString("Model "+title,getSmallestX(),getSmallestY());
    this.paintAll(g2);
    enableDoubleBuffering(this);
3    g2.drawString("Model "+title,getSmallestX(),getSmallestY());
    g2.scale((1/scaleX),(1/scaleY));
    System.out.println("print successful");
    return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
  }Hope you could give mea hint on where to put it..
Much thanks
pmiggy