October 1999
Intermediate to advanced
754 pages
36h 7m
English
Content preview from Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell
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CHAPTER 21
Thejava.awt.pr int Package
The java.awt.print package contains classes and interfaces that support printing. It
has been introduced in Java 1.2 and supersedes the PrintJob class of the java.awt
package. The most important class in this package is PrinterJob;itcoordinates the
printing process. The Printable and Pageable inter faces repr esent printable objects or
documents that can be printed with a PrinterJob. Figur e 21-1 shows the class hierar-
chy of this package. See Chapter 5, Printing, for more details on printing.
CLASS INTERFACEABSTRACT CLASS
KEY
extends implements
PageFormat
java.awt.printjava.lang
Book
Cloneable
Paper
PrinterException
Pageable
Exception
Object
PrinterJob
Printable
PrinterGraphics
PrinterAbortException
PrinterIOException
Figur e 21−1: The java.awt.print package
java.awt.
print
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Book Ja va 1.2
java.awt.print
This class implements a multi-page Pageable document out of individual single-page
Printable objects. Each page of the Book can have its own PageFor mat specified. You might
use this class, for example, in a database-reporting application when you want to print
areport that consists of single-page tables and graphs in mixed portrait and landscape
modes.
The append() and setPage() methods allow you to specify the Printable pages that make
up the book, ...
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