PDF printing in Java

Question

I have a requirement to print PDF files routed to half a dozen of printers by user request. Is it true that PDF printing is still not supported in Java after so many years of JPS which first appeared in JDK1.4.? There is a project called pdf-renderer but not link directly with JPS (using DocPrintJob).
Does anybody have a solution on this? I couldn't use commercial library since I need to deploy to over 60 branches.

Answer 1

duffymo
Acrobat 5.0 when I open a pdf on my system.
This is exactly the code currently in my program.
I just ran it again to test it and it works.
1) The application has an ugly square gray box on the screen while printing.
2) The Acrobat reader starts on the task bar.
3) For the application to continue I have to expand the reader and close it myself.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
  String selectedDocument = SelectedDocument();
  if (selectedDocument != null) {
    try {
      String command = "C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe /t "+selectedDocument+" \\\\CONTROL\\HP LaserJet 4L";
      Runtime rn = Runtime.getRuntime();
      Process process = rn.exec(command);
      process.waitFor();
    catch (Exception pEX) {showSystemError("Unable to print document.", selectedDocument, pEX, false);}
}It is not what I wanted to do - I wanted to do the print
internally in the program.
rykk