Printing JList - font problems

Question

i am using a class that takes a Component and prints it.
in windows:
when i send a JList, it prints using the standard java font. if i set the LookAndFeel to the DefaultOS, then if i set font that is what I am assuming to be the System default (in windows this seems to be "sansserrif" size 11).
in mac os:
when i try to print the JList it spits out a different font and much larger font size, so it's throwing off my usable print area. i tried setting the font of the JList to the "sansserrif" but it had no effect....it's still printing using the default mac font. i had my gui show me the jlist...it looks identical to how it looked in windows....until i print. method used: jList.setFont(new Font("sansserif", Font.PLAIN, 11));how do i override this with my own font? and why would it let me override it in windows? seems fishy to me... (i hope i was somewhat clear...i think im confusing even myself at this point)

Answer 1

in case anyone was interested...i was able to get cross-platform printing to work "good enough." although not identical, these two variations produced nearly the same result (the only difference was that the cell heights weren't quite the same... i think 10.5 for the mac version would match 14 for windows perfectly, but only integers are accepted as parameters for the setFixedCellHeight() method).
i also had to fix the print graphics translation to set a 1" top, left margin in stone...the mac os wanted the margin to be just a fraction of an inch.
//for 8.5" x 11" pages:
jList = new JList(theModel);
    jList.setLayoutOrientation(JList.VERTICAL_WRAP);
    jList.setVisibleRowCount(-1);
    if (windows)
      jList.setFont(new Font("sansserif", Font.PLAIN, 11));
      jList.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(620,860));
      jList.setFixedCellHeight(14);
      jList.setFixedCellWidth(210);
    else //mac
      jList.setFont(new Font("sansserif", Font.PLAIN, 8));
      jList.setSize(new Dimension(470,673));
      jList.setFixedCellHeight(11);
      jList.setFixedCellWidth(155);
    }again, this was sending a 3-column JList as a component to a printing function.