[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your help Phil.
But
I'm trying to build up a BufferedImage using its
Graphics component,
nd then print that image using a Printable
Why? As in I don't know why you aren't rendering
directly to the printer ?
I have a builder for my non-print documents, but it seems that I can't
> apply the normal builder to a printer document because of the way java print
services works.
> If I were to apply the builder directly to the printer, it seems that I would
have to somehow
> enter the print method in the builder and then have the director call the
builder while it was
> in the print method, but that's not possible. So instead, I'm trying to
build an image and pass
> it to the printable. But as you have pointed out, this is not a nice
solution. Any advice?
Consider that the rendering process first needs to obtain a Graphics instance,
either
from BufferedImage.createGraphics() or the one passed in to Printable.print(..).
I cannot see why your "builder" should know or care what the origin is, nor do
I see
why you can't call your builder's paint method from print().
-phil.
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