Problem Printing Documents - No Doc Flavors Supported

Question

Hello everybody. I've been trying to implement a print feature in my applications and I've had absolutely zero luck. Basically, I'm trying to print the contents of an html file. However, there are no PrintServices that show up on my machine that support DocFlavors text/html, or even text/plain.
I searched all over the Internet, but the only tutorials I found involved printing GUI components. I tried putting everything in a JEditorPane and then printing it, but the table is so large horizontally, it runs off the side, so I don't think that route will work.
I checked IRC, scanned through all of Sun's tutorials and print service API documentation, and even searched around for open source Java word processors so I could check how their print features are implemented, but I can't find anything to help me figure this out. I know there has to be a way, though... or stuff like EIOffice and ThinkFree.com wouldn't be able to work. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
Here's the current code I have:
          //display print dialog
          DocFlavor df=new DocFlavor("text/html; charset="+DocFlavor.hostEncoding,"java.io.InputStream");
          PrintRequestAttributeSet attributes=new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
          attributes.add(new javax.print.attribute.standard.JobName("NutraSmart Menu",null));
          PrintService[] services=PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(df,attributes);
          PrintService service=null;
          if(services.length>0)
               service=ServiceUI.printDialog(this.getGraphicsConfiguration(), this.getX()+50, this.getY()+50, services, services[0], null, attributes);
          else
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(getContentPane(),"No print services could be found to print this menu.","Error printing menu",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
               nutrasmart.debug(nutrasmart.ERROR,"Could not find any services to print menu");
          //print menu
          if(service!=null)
               try
                    //create temporary HTML file to print from
                    File tmpfile=File.createTempFile("nsmenu",".html");
                    tmpfile.deleteOnExit();
                    String tmpfilestr=tmpfile.getPath();
                    export_HTML(tmpfilestr);
                    FileInputStream tmpfilestream;
                    try
                         tmpfilestream=new FileInputStream(tmpfilestr);
                    catch(FileNotFoundException e)
                         JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(getContentPane(),"A problem was encountered while preparing the menu to print.","Error printing menu",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
                         return;
                    //print document
                    DocPrintJob pj=service.createPrintJob();
                    Doc doc=new SimpleDoc(tmpfilestream,df,new HashDocAttributeSet());
                    pj.print(doc,attributes);
               catch(Exception e)
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(getContentPane(),"There was a problem with printing the menu.","Error printing menu",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
                    nutrasmart.debug(nutrasmart.ERROR,"Error printing file",e.getMessage());
          }

Answer 1

Really we have a crazy font management.
We have more than 9000 fonts in the /Library/Fonts
To avoid conficts between the the installed system fonts and the Document font folder, we don't use the document font folder, so that we use always the /Library/Fonts/ fonts installed. Anyway some time ago we also used the Document Font folder and we got the same problem.
I think that your idea about closing the document before the printing process has been finished is very interesting. What I do is :
doc.print(print_preset);
doc.close();
But I don't how can I test if the document is being closed before finishing the printing process.
Regards