Printing multiple pages in Java...

Question

I have created a JEditorPane that needs to print multiple pages of html text. I have it printing out the first page but that's it. Also, text that is print out is cut off on the right hand side. Can anyone help me with this? My code is below. I left out the import statements for space.public class
Browser_1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener//, HyperlinkListener
public static void main(String[] args)
new Browser_1("http://www.cnn.com/");
protected JEditorPane htmlViewer;
protected String initialURL;
public Browser_1(String initialURL)
setTitle("Browser_1");
//this.initialURL = initialURL;
//setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JButton openButton = new JButton("Open");
openButton.addActionListener(this);
JButton printButton = new JButton("Print");
printButton.addActionListener(this);
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.add(openButton);
buttonPanel.add(printButton);
getContentPane().add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
try
htmlViewer = new JEditorPane(initialURL);
htmlViewer.setEditable(false);
htmlViewer.addHyperlinkListener(new _LinkListener());
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(htmlViewer);
getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
catch (IOException ioe)
warnUser("Can't build HTML pane for " + initialURL + ": " + ioe);
Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
int width = screenSize.width * 8 /10;
int height = screenSize.height * 8/10;
setBounds(width/8, height/8, width, height);
setVisible(true);
//openDocument(new File("./htdocs/index.html"));
private void openDocument(File doc)
try {
     htmlViewer.setPage(doc.toURL());
catch(MalformedURLException e)
     e.printStackTrace();
catch(IOException e)
     e.printStackTrace();
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
String command = event.getActionCommand();
if(command.equals("Open"))
JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
chooser.setFileFilter(new _FileFilter());
if(chooser.showOpenDialog(null) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
     openDocument(chooser.getSelectedFile());
else if(command.equals("Print"))
PrintUtilities.printComponent(htmlViewer);
private void warnUser(String message)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, message, "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
// Inner class implements the FileFilter interface for '.html' files
class _FileFilter extends javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter
public boolean accept(File f)
return(f != null && (f.isDirectory() || f.getName().endsWith(".html")));
public String getDescription()
return("HTML Documents (*.html)");
// Inner class implements the HyperlinkListener interface
class _LinkListener implements HyperlinkListener
public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent event)
if(event.getEventType() != HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED)
return;
if(event instanceof HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent)
HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument)htmlViewer.getDocument();
doc.processHTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent((HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent)event);
else
try {htmlViewer.setPage(event.getURL());}
catch(IOException e) {e.printStackTrace();}
class PrintUtilities implements Printable
protected Component componentToBePrinted;
public static void printComponent(Component c)
new PrintUtilities(c).print();
public PrintUtilities(Component componentToBePrinted)
this.componentToBePrinted = componentToBePrinted;
public void print()
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
printJob.setPrintable(this);
if (printJob.printDialog())
try
{printJob.print();}
catch(PrinterException pe)
{System.out.println("Error printing: " + pe);}
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex)
double height = pageFormat.getImageableHeight();
double width = pageFormat.getImageableWidth();
int totalNumPages = (int)Math.ceil(componentToBePrinted / height);
if (pageIndex >= totalNumPages)
{ return(NO_SUCH_PAGE); }
else
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
disableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
componentToBePrinted.paint(g2d);
enableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
return(PAGE_EXISTS);
public static void disableDoubleBuffering(Component c)
RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
public static void enableDoubleBuffering(Component c)
RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true);

Answer 1

A recent article in JavaPro has a nice solution for this problem. Check out
http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_12/online/print_kgauthier_12_10_02/
It describes a way of using Views to break down the pages.