Print page ranges

Question

With the print dialog that is displayed when you call:
PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
PageFormat pf = job.pageDialog();you can only print continuouspage ranges (like x to y). We would like to print discontinuous page ranges (like "1;5-6;9").
Is there a built in way to achieve this?
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Stas,
thanks for your reply.
I tried the following code.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.print.attribute.*;
public class PrintDialogExample {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
        job.setPageable(new Pageable() {
               public Printable getPrintable(int pageIndex)
                         throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {
                    return new Printable() {
                         public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex)
                                   throws PrinterException {
                            if (pageIndex > 9) {
                                return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
                            Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
                            g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
                            g.drawString("Test the print dialog!", 100, 100);
                            return PAGE_EXISTS;
               public PageFormat getPageFormat(int pageIndex)
                         throws IndexOutOfBoundsException {
                    return new PageFormat();
               public int getNumberOfPages() {
                    return 10;
        PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
        PageFormat pf = job.pageDialog(aset);
        boolean ok = job.printDialog(aset);
        if (ok) {
            try {
                 job.print(aset);
            } catch (PrinterException ex) {
}Hope thats what you meant?! Now there is a page dialog and a print dialog, but still no way to print discontinuous page ranges (like "1;5-6;9"). Any ideas?
Regards,
Wost