Printing JTextArea

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I am trying to print a JTextArea through a printer, but text from JTextArea is not visible in print file i.e. .xps file.

bprint.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
      try {
         int num;
         JFrame f1 = new JFrame("PrintJob");
         Toolkit tkp = p1.getToolkit();
         Properties prop = new Properties();
         PrintJob pjp = tkp.getPrintJo(f1, "Printjob", prop);
         Graphics g = pjp.getGraphics();
         p1.print(g);
         g.dispose();
         pjp.end();
      } catch (Exception e109) {
         System.out.println(e109);
      }
   }
});

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score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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That's not really how printing is done, you should be passing the PrintJob a Printable, which will then tell you when it wants something printed

Take a look at Printing for more details

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edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Feb 23 '14 at 06:00

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '14 at 05:26

Note, you're trying to print from a JFrame created de novo within your ActionListener, one that has no JTextArea, and certainly no text component that has any code input from any user. I presume that there's a real visualized GUI out there that you are intent on printing, but if so, your code above doesn't approach a solution because it is creating its own GUI, one that is never displayed and with a JTextArea that never gets text, and then tries to print it. The solution is to try to get a reference to the actual visualized JTextArea and then to extract its text.

Printing JTextArea

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