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SwingController: keeping printHelper settings

dmaass — GMT

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?

Re:SwingController: keeping printHelper settings

patrick.corless — GMT

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.

Re:SwingController: keeping printHelper settings

patrick.corless — GMT

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

Re:SwingController: keeping printHelper settings

dmaass — GMT

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());

Re:SwingController: keeping printHelper settings

patrick.corless — GMT

I see your point now. I'll also make sure the attributes get copied over as your patch states. Since you're now an official contributor to ICEpdf I need you to sign and send in our contributors agreement for all the wonderful legal reasons. You can download the agreement here, http://www.icepdf.org/community/contribute.html