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Re: java printing font issue on leopard

Subject: Re: java printing font issue on leopard
From: Bernd Gründling <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:55:52 +0100
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Hi all,

I also have this problem printing from JasperReports. I have had a look at the PDF file and found the spacing to be that of the font and size I declared in the report definition, but the font actually printed to PDF was Lucida Grande 12pt, no matter which font I requested. So the character placement is done with the correct font.

This works:

import java.awt.print.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class PrintTest implements Printable {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
        printJob.setPrintable(new PrintTest());

        try {
            printJob.print();
        } catch (PrinterException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int page) throws PrinterException { if (page > 0) { return NO_SUCH_PAGE; }

        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
        g2d.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());

int yPosition = 100; int fontSize = 8; while (fontSize <= 14) { g.setFont(new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, fontSize)); g.drawString(fontSize + "pt Arial: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy old dog.", 100, yPosition);

            yPosition += 50;
            fontSize++;
        }

        return PAGE_EXISTS;
    }
}


which seems to be consistent to what Raffi Minassian reported:

Peter Mycue from DBSolutions, Inc. was kind enough to share the following info with me about this issue... " ... the root problem seems to be that the font context is not updated when you change fonts in a graphics context."

By the way, calling JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile works perfectly, only JasperPrintManager.printReport does not.

In Jasper, JRXmlDigesterFactory, I found these conspicously looking lines:

digester.addFactoryCreate("*/textElement/font", JRFontFactory.TextElementFontFactory.class.getName()); //digester.addSetNext("*/textElement/font", "setFont", JRFont.class.getName());

Why is setFont commented out? Removing the comment does not help, of course.

While this does not solve the problem, it might shed a little bit more light on it.


Kind regards,
Bernd Gründling _______________________________________________
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