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Hi,
maybe this issue was solved elsewhere, so ignore it if it isn't of interest..

When i used the SwingController to display a document the printer dialog always used the letter page size as default when i pressed the print button. I wanted to change this beavior using the following
Code:

       SwingController controller;
           ... // some initialization incl. call controller.openDocument(...)
       controller.getViewModel().setPrintHelper(
           new PrintHelper( controller.getDocumentViewController(), controller
               .getDocument().getPageTree(), MediaSizeName.ISO_A4,
               PrintQuality.NORMAL ) );

This did not help. The reason is, that the printHelper is always overwritten in SwingController#initialisePrinting(...).

The attached patch helped me. Should i file a bug?

I would probably argue that this isn't a bug as the Viewer RI was intended to be modified by the end user for custom applications.

If you want to change the default printer I would recommend you change the PrintHelper constructor as follows:

Code:

public PrintHelper(DocumentViewController viewController, PageTree pageTree) {
         this(viewController, pageTree, MediaSizeName.NA_A4, PrintQuality.DRAFT);
     }

This question is asked quite a lot by the European community. I think the easiest thing to do on my end it to add a new property to the viewers properties files that would allows uses to change the default printer.

Created to enhancement bug to track this change. http://jira.icefaces.org/browse/PDF-157.

Thank you for your quick reply!

Why not simply use the attributes of an already existing PrintHelper as in the proposed patch? I thought this was intended by the writer of (SwingController#initialisePrinting)
Code:

 PrintHelper printHelper = viewModel.getPrintHelper();

and the error is at the next line
Code:

 printHelper = new PrintHelper(documentViewController, getPageTree());

??

I see your point now. I'll also make sure the attributes get copied over as your patch states.

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