URGENT ! Help to printing contents of a panel (Plz Help me)

Question

hi guys,
i developed a application which consists of lot of information on a panel, i am using print utilities and printing the panel but its printing only the visible part of the panel and its printing a single page. is there any way i can print the whole contents of the panel
i really appreciate if anyone can help me out.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
public class PrintUtilities implements Printable
private 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)
if (pageIndex > 0)
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);
/** The speed and quality of printing suffers dramatically if
* any of the containers have double buffering turned on.
* So this turns if off globally.
* @see enableDoubleBuffering
public static void disableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
/** Re-enables double buffering globally. */
public static void enableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true);

Answer 1

not exactly so...
implementing Pageable means imlpementing methods that return the number of pages, PageFormat object, and Printable object for each page... look in the API for this interface. It's actually quite a lot of work to do, as you have to divide your panel programmatically on "good" - suitable for your purposes rectangles of the page size, then cretae printale object for each ... but that can be done.
I'm not that familiar with java printing, perhaps there is a much easier way to do it. Anyway, when I had to print one component on several pages, that's what I did - so it works.