Image resizing for printing

Question

Hi,
I have a simple applet that prints a gif image provided by a 3rd party. I'm using javax to do the printing. My problem is that the image is printing huge, since it's high res, and I'd like to slim it down. Is there a way to do this within the print classes, or do I have to manipulate the image before passing it to the applet? Pseudo-code is below.
Thank you for any help.
Jeff
URL url = new URL(codebase + "filename.gif");
PrintService ps = (previously defined print service)
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
aset.add(OrientationRequested.REVERSE_LANDSCAPE);
DocPrintJob job = ps.createPrintJob();                              
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(url, DocFlavor.URL.GIF, null);
job.print(doc, aset);

Answer 1

You should resize the image and pass this to yous Doc objecty.Check this
Image inImage = getImage(new URL(codebase + "filename.gif"));
          int maxDim = 120;
          double scale = (double) maxDim / (double) inImage.getHeight(null);
          if (inImage.getWidth(null) > inImage.getHeight(null))
               scale = (double) maxDim / (double) inImage.getWidth(null);
          // Determine size of new image.
          //One of them
          // should equal maxDim.
          int scaledW = (int) (scale * inImage.getWidth(null));
          int scaledH = (int) (scale * inImage.getHeight(null));
          System.out.println(">> "
               + inImage.getSource().getClass()
               + " aspect ratio = "
               + scaledW + " , " + scaledH);
          Image img = inImage.getScaledInstance(scaledW , scaledH, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);The rest is yours.