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POSwing component prints text differently than it displays it
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    copied!<p>I am printing a Swing component that contains text. The Swing component renders the text just fine on the screen, but, when I print it (to a .tif file), the characters are all smashed together. Why is this?</p> <p>Run this code to see what I mean:</p> <pre><code>import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet; import javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet; import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants; import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.awt.print.PageFormat; import java.awt.print.Printable; import java.awt.print.PrinterException; import java.awt.print.PrinterJob; public final class PrintingDemo2 implements Printable { private final JTextPane textPane; private static final String WORDS = "GOOD MORNING\u00AE AMERICA"; private static final String TEXT = WORDS + '\n' + WORDS + '\n' + WORDS + '\n' + WORDS + '\n' + WORDS + '\n' + WORDS; public static void main(String[] args) { new PrintingDemo2(); } public PrintingDemo2() { textPane = new JTextPane(); textPane.setText(TEXT); final StyledDocument document = textPane.getStyledDocument(); String[] fontFamilies = new String[]{"Tahoma", "SimSum", "MS Mincho", "Batang", "Arial", "Times New Roman"}; for (int i = 0; i &lt; fontFamilies.length; i++) { final MutableAttributeSet attributeSet = new SimpleAttributeSet(); StyleConstants.setFontFamily(attributeSet, fontFamilies[i]); StyleConstants.setFontSize(attributeSet, 14); document.setParagraphAttributes(i * 22, 21, attributeSet, true); } final AbstractButton printContextButton = new JButton("Print Context"); printContextButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { final PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob(); job.setPrintable(PrintingDemo2.this); try { job.print(); } catch (PrinterException ex) { throw new RuntimeException("Printing Failed.", ex); } } }); final JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); final Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane(); contentPane.setLayout(new BoxLayout(contentPane, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS)); contentPane.add(printContextButton); contentPane.add(new JScrollPane(textPane)); frame.setSize(400, 200); SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { frame.setVisible(true); } }); } public int print(Graphics graphics, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex) throws PrinterException { if (pageIndex &gt;= 1) return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE; RepaintManager mgr = RepaintManager.currentManager(textPane); mgr.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false); final Graphics2D graphics2D = (Graphics2D) graphics; graphics2D.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY()); textPane.paint(graphics); mgr.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true); return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS; } } </code></pre>
 

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