Printerjob.printDialog() Locale

Hiyas
How can I set the locale that is used to display the strings int he printDialog()? The dialog always pops up in german, but I need to display it in the currently set locale, however, I don't know where to set the locale. Of course, if there isn't a translation for the desired locale, a default locale can be used, but I would imagine that, in a non-modified JRE, the english language shpould always be supported. In my case it isnt.
ANyone?

You could use Locale.setDefault() static method.

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        AttributedCharacterIterator charIterator = mStyledText.getIterator();
        LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(charIterator, g2d.getFontRenderContext());
        float wrappingWidth = (float) format.getImageableWidth();
        while (measurer.getPosition() < charIterator.getEndIndex())
            TextLayout layout = measurer.nextLayout(wrappingWidth);
            pen.y += layout.getAscent();
            float dx = layout.isLeftToRight() ? 0 : (wrappingWidth - layout.getAdvance());
            layout.draw(g2d, pen.x + dx, pen.y);
            pen.y += layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
        return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
}The problem I am having is that it removes the line breaks when printing. I have checked the file I am reading from and that has the line breaks. How can I get it to include the line breaks?
Thanks

The problem is that once it prints all this the line break is gone.
Up until the following code the line breaks are fine. However, the printed document I'm getting has no line breaks at all.
mStyledText = new AttributedString(toPrint);
        PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
Book book = new Book();
book.append(new Print(), new PageFormat());
printerJob.setPageable(book);
boolean doPrint = printerJob.printDialog();
if (doPrint) {
try {
printerJob.print();
} catch (PrinterException exception) {
System.err.println("Printing error: " + exception);
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pageIndex)
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
g2d.translate(format.getImageableX(), format.getImageableY());
g2d.setPaint(Color.black);
        Point2D.Float pen = new Point2D.Float();
        AttributedCharacterIterator charIterator = mStyledText.getIterator();
        LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(charIterator, g2d.getFontRenderContext());
        float wrappingWidth = (float) format.getImageableWidth();
        while (measurer.getPosition() < charIterator.getEndIndex())
            TextLayout layout = measurer.nextLayout(wrappingWidth);
            pen.y += layout.getAscent();
            float dx = layout.isLeftToRight() ? 0 : (wrappingWidth - layout.getAdvance());
            layout.draw(g2d, pen.x + dx, pen.y);
            pen.y += layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
        return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
}

Printing JPanel to fit one page, Urgent (thanks for help)..........

hi all,
I am trying to print and can't get the right scaling. My problem is if the JPanel that has lot of images inside it is too big to come on one page width and height then I want the print out to be on one page. If my panel's height is too large to fit on one page and the width is only half of the page or less than page half of the width. Then I want to scale it's height only to fit on one page while keeping the width the same during printing and the images also to be scaled accordingly. And if my height is too small lets say less than half the page and the width is too large too fit on one page then in this case I want to print the original height or keep the height to be shown on the printout as it looks on the screen but scale the width to fit on to one page and the images also to be scaled accordingly. But my following piece of code doesn't honor this though it fits on one page. It keeps on increasing the width or height to fit the whole page thought the width or height is less than that and the images are also expaned accordingly. I want to scale the images too and only fit the width or height if any is greater than one page. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance
RepaintManager.currentManager(panel).setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
//Creates and returns a PrinterJob.
PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
Book book = new Book ();
PageFormat pf = printerJob.pageDialog(printerJob.defaultPage());
int pagecount = this.calculatePageCount(pf);
book.append (this, pf, pagecount);
// set pageable
printerJob.setPageable(book);
if (printerJob != null && printerJob.printDialog())
try
//this print() method implements the Printable interface
printerJob.print();
catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
public int print(Graphics graphics, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex) throws PrinterException
if ( pageIndex >= 1 )
return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)graphics;
// leave room for a page number
double pageHeight = pageFormat.getImageableHeight();
double pageWidth = pageFormat.getImageableWidth();
double scaleFactorH = (panel.getSize().height)/(double)(pageFormat.getImageableHeight());
// set the clip to the size of one page
g2.setClip(0, 0, (int)pageWidth, (int)pageHeight);
// translate down the graphics object to the top of this page
g2.translate(0f, -pageIndex*pageHeight);
// scale to fit the width
g2.scale(scale,1.0/scaleFactorH);
panel.paint(g2);
return PAGE_EXISTS;
//method to calculate
public int calculatePageCount (PageFormat pf)
double pageHeight = pf.getImageableHeight();
double pageWidth = pf.getImageableWidth();
double componentWidth = panel.getSize().getWidth();
System.out.println("THe imageable width is " + pageWidth);
if (componentWidth > pageWidth)
scale = pageWidth / panel.getWidth();
double componentHeight = panel.getSize().getHeight() * scale;
printPageCount = (int)Math.round(Math.ceil (componentHeight/pageHeight));
return printPageCount;
Is there a way to fix this any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Dear Nadia,
Thanks for the info.
If I understand it correct I can make a copy of my actual css file.
Rename it this copy to e.g. print.css
And then make some changes such a letter fonts and colour
Linking this css file to my pages and specify it is only for `print1`
Right?
I`m using a template so if I amend the template like this and have all pages updated automatically that should do the trick?
Right?
Is there somewhere where I need to mention that e.g. the page needs to be reduced onto 95% by printing?
Or will the print.css do the trick?
Sometimes I get confused on what css can do and it can do a lot.
Many thanks for helping me out here.
Kind regards
martine

Printing function gets called twice..!

The following is my class that prints a string array which sometimes goes into multiple pages.. The code in which i create the multiple pages is below this class.. the problem is each time i append a new page to the book the print function in the class PaintC is called twice.. so if I write some additional code inside the print function to edit the strings .. it ends up running twice and the formatting i try to do gets messed up.. !! do you guys know why this is happening..? Please help.. ive been trying to find out since a very long time..!!
The code in which i call this function is also shown below
CLASS FOR PRINTING
class PaintC
    implements Printable {
String ad[];
public PaintC(String ac[]) {
    System.out.println("Print Class Called 1");
    this.ad = ac;
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex) throws
      PrinterException {
    System.out.println("Print Function Called 1");
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    g.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Trebuchet MS", Font.PLAIN, 8));
    int xo = 60;
    int yo = 36;
    for (int y = 0; y < 76; y++) {
      try {
        g2.drawString(ad[y], xo, yo);
        yo += 9;
      catch (Exception r) {
        y = 76;
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CODE FOR CREATING MULTIPLE PAGES USING ABOVE CLASS
void dotheprint() {
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    String ad[] = new String[78];
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    // setting up first page
    //Assuming 76 lines per page
    for (i = 0; i < 76 && i < lc; i++) {
      try {
        ad[i] = ac;
catch (Exception ex) {
bk.append(new PaintC(ad), format);
ad = null;
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// //System.out.println("Number of Lines /76= "+lc/76);
int pagec = lc / 76;
int modul = lc % 76;
int k;
if (modul > 0) {
pagec++;
// //System.out.println("Number of pages : "+pagec);
j = 76;
while (pagec > 1) {
ad = new String[76];
k = 0;
for (i = j; i < (lc - 1) && k < 76; i++) {
// //System.out.println("ac[i]= "+ac[i]);
ad[k] = ac[i];
k++;
bk.append(new PaintC(ad), format);
ad = null;
j += 76;
pagec--;
printerJob.setPageable(bk);
boolean doPrint = printerJob.printDialog();
if (doPrint) {
try {
System.out.println("Print Called 1");
printerJob.print();
System.out.println("Print Called 2");
catch (PrinterException exception) {
System.err.println("Printing error: " + exception);
CODE IN WHICH THE PRINT FUNCTION IS CALLED
void jBPrint_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    dotheprint();
class ContactManager_jBPrint_actionAdapter
    implements java.awt.event.ActionListener {
ContactManager adaptee;
ContactManager_jBPrint_actionAdapter(ContactManager adaptee) {
    this.adaptee = adaptee;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    adaptee.jBPrint_actionPerformed(e);

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