With jPDFPrint, your application or server can print PDF documents automatically and efficiently from local files, URL's and even Java input streams. This allows you to print documents that are created at runtime or that are served from web servers or database servers. jPDFPrint is built around a main object, com.qoppa.pdfPrint.PDFPrint that provides printing functions. To print a PDF file, the host application will typically create a new instance of the object and then tell the object to print. In the simplest case, only two lines are needed to print a PDF file.

jPDFPrint Main Features

• Print any PDF documents.
• Print with or without user intervention (silent print).
• Print documents from files, URLs or Java input streams.
• Support for PDF 1.7 (latest PDF format).
• No third party software or drivers necessary.
• Flexible printing options.
• Tested on JDK 1.4.2 and above.

jPDFPrint Printing Silently
jPDFPrint provides the ability to print PDF documents without showing the printer dialog or any other user intervention. This is implemented by providing a version of its print method that takes a printer name as its first parameter.

jPDFPrint Print Settings
When printing with jPDFPrint, the printing methods take a PrintSettings object as a parameter. This parameter is used to control the way that jPDFPrint will print each page. The object has several properties that can be set by the calling application:

• AutoRotate - This setting tells PDFPrint to detect the orientation of the PDF document and to print appropriately to the printer page. i.e. If the document is in landscape mode, the library will send it to the printer in that mode. Setting this to false will always use portrait mode when sending to the printer.
• ShrinkToPage - This setting tells PDFPrint to shrink the page to fit within the printer's margin if the document page is larger than the printer page. This option has no effect if the document page is smaller than the printer page.
• ExpandToPage - This setting tells PDFPrint to expand the page to fit within the printer's margin if the document page is smaller that the printer page. This option has no effect if the document page is larger than the printer page.
• CenterInPage - This setting tells PDFPrint to center the page within the printer's page. This option only has an effect when the document page is smaller than the printer page and the ExpandToPage option is set to false.