[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Question about the relation of PrintService and PrinterJob

[Phil Race]

A PrinterJob is a job and a DocPrintJob is a job

So you created a PrinterJob, set some properties on that job and then a 
DocPrinterJob and expect
the job properties to migrate from one to the other ?

I would not expect that to work as they are distinct jobs. Moreover
dpj.print(Doc, PrintJRequestAttributeSet)
clearly provides the properties such as copies in that second argument.

Are you expecting (hoping) that " pj.setCopies(2)" some how sets printer 
defaults ?
Sorry, bu that has to be done through an administration dialog somewhere 
in Windows.

-phil.


On 7/19/2011 2:39 PM, Patrick Reinhart wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a question considering the relation between the "old" 
> PrinterJob and the "new" PrintService:
>
> Should the job settings (for example amount of copies or the job name) 
> be held only within the PrinterJob and not be passed to the 
> PrinterService as set by PrinterJob.setPrintService(PrintService)?
>
> Here's a small szenario for my question:
>
> The following code is beeing executed by the customer:
>
> > PrintService ps = xx //lookup thru 
> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices() method
> > PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> > pj.setPrinterService(ps);
> > pj.setCopies(2);
> > pj.setJobName("theTestJob");
> > pj.print();
>
> When the print() method is called, the following methods where called 
> on the PrintService returned by the lookup:
>
> > ps.createDocPrintJob()
>
> and finally on the DocPrintJob:
>
> > dpj.print(Doc, PrintJRequestAttributeSet)
>
> Now: Why does the print request attribute set not contain the Copies 
> attribute? Is this not intended or a bug?
>
> Thanks for some more explanation, I would like to help as soon I 
> understand the correct behavior..
>
> Regards
>
> Patrick
>
>