Printing a TextArea. PLEASE HELP ME! :)

Question

I'm trying to use this code for printing the content of a TextArea:
void Stampare(){   
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
Book book = new Book();
PageFormat documentPageFormat = new PageFormat();
documentPageFormat.setOrientation(PageFormat.LANDSCAPE);
book.append(new Document(), documentPageFormat);
printJob.setPageable(book);
if (printJob.printDialog()) {
try {
printJob.print();
catch (Exception PrintException){
PrintException.printStackTrace();
public class Document implements Printable {
private final static int POINTS_PER_INCH = 72;
public int print (Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int page) {
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
g2d.setPaint(Color.black);
g2d.setStroke(new BasicStroke (4));
Rectangle2D.Double border = new Rectangle2D.Double (0, 0, pageFormat.getImageableWidth (), pageFormat.getImageableHeight ());
//g2d.draw(border);
String text = new String(areaStampa.getText());
Point2D.Double pen = new Point2D.Double(0.25 * POINTS_PER_INCH, 0.25 * POINTS_PER_INCH);
double width = 7.5 * POINTS_PER_INCH;
AttributedString paragraphText = new AttributedString(text);
paragraphText.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, new Font("serif", Font.PLAIN, 12));
LineBreakMeasurer lineBreaker = new LineBreakMeasurer(paragraphText.getIterator(), new FontRenderContext(null, true, true));
TextLayout layout;
while ((layout = lineBreaker.nextLayout((float) width)) != null){
pen.y += layout.getAscent();
layout.draw(g2d, (float) pen.x, (float) pen.y);
pen.y += layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
return (PAGE_EXISTS);
Obviuosly, it doesn't work as I would like it to do!
First of all, It doesn't print the lines as they are in the TextArea. I mean, the carriage returns are not the one that are in the TextArea.
Secondly, If there's a lot of text, It does exactly nothing! My purpose is to print pages as if they were a Word document, while here it seems that I cannot print more than a page.
Please, please, please, help me!!!! I'm becoming crazy with this problem!
Thanks a lot,
Giorgio

Answer 1

I really need somebody who could give me the correct version of this application. Have you ever developed an application that uses a TextArea (or a JTextArea, if it is possible to use that) exactly as it was a Word document? I mean, something that would let you print what is inside the TextArea as if it was inside a Word document, with more than one page, all the lines printed correctly and so on. If you have that, please, please, please!!! send me a copy. My e-mail address is [email protected]
I would really, really appreciate that!
Thanks,
Giorgio