Print .PDT,.DOC,.XLS files using java print API

Question

Hi,
I need to print different types of documents like pdf, word, excel files etc.
Please let me know how to proceed on this.
I tried using the following code, but it is printing all junk/html tags on the paper.
Please let me know how to resolve this.
Thanks in advance
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.print.DocFlavor;
import javax.print.DocPrintJob;
import javax.print.PrintException;
import javax.print.PrintService;
import javax.print.PrintServiceLookup;
import javax.print.SimpleDoc;
public class PrintDocument {
  static public void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
    try {
         PrintService defaultPrintService = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
        DocPrintJob printerJob = defaultPrintService.createPrintJob();
        File pdfFile = new File("C:\\temp\\sample.doc");
        SimpleDoc simpleDoc = new SimpleDoc(pdfFile.toURL(), DocFlavor.URL.AUTOSENSE, null);
        printerJob.print(simpleDoc, null);
    } catch (IOException ie) {
      ie.printStackTrace();
    } catch (PrintException pe) {
      pe.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

Hi
I would like to see if it was possible.  I thought it would be easy, as
there is a standard batch processing sequence (Print 1st page of all) using
Java that comes with Acrobat 7.  This allows you to print the first page of
a number of files that you select when the sequence is run.  Its code is:
/* Print 1st Page */
/* This sequence prints the first page of
   each document selected to the default printer.
this.print
To my uninformed mind it seemed logical that the same code, slightly
modified to print all pages, should work from within a form.
Anyway, if there is a way to choose individual files, I would appreciate
that.
Thanks
Rob