javaprintingitextjava-print

Printing ByteArrayOutputStream object


I have a generated PDF document using iText library, then I kept the document in memory using a ByteArrayOutputStream to print it but it's not printing anything. Any idea on why isn't it printing? You can find the code below and thanks in advance.

    ByteArrayOutputStream byteArr = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    Document document = new Document();
    PdfWriter.getInstance(document, byteArr);
    document.open();

    /*
    * Adding data and tables to the document
    */

    document.close();

    DocFlavor docType = DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.AUTOSENSE;    
    byte[] byteStream = byteArr.toByteArray();// fetch content in byte array;
    // byteArr is the ByteArrayOutputStream object
    // Tried using InputStream but did not work as well.

    Doc documentToBePrinted = new SimpleDoc(byteStream, docType, null);
    PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();  
    PrintService services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();               
    DocPrintJob job = services.createPrintJob();  
    try {  
    job.print(documentToBePrinted, aset);
    System.out.println("Donee");

    } 
    catch (Exception pe)
    {
     pe.printStackTrace();

    } 

    byteArr = null;


}

Solution

  • Probably the printer you are using doesn't support PDF directly. Try using PDFBox to print the document. I made a small maven project to test it and it works for me:

    Main.java:

    import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
    import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
    import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
    import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
    import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
    import org.apache.pdfbox.printing.PDFPageable;
    
    import javax.print.*;
    import java.awt.print.PrinterJob;
    import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    
    class Main {
        public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, IOException {
            ByteArrayOutputStream byteArr = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            Document pdfDocument = new Document();
            PdfWriter.getInstance(pdfDocument, byteArr);
            pdfDocument.open();
            pdfDocument.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
            pdfDocument.close();
    
            byte[] byteStream = byteArr.toByteArray();// fetch content in byte array;
            PrintService services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
            PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
            PDDocument pdDocument = null;
            try {
                pdDocument = PDDocument.load(byteStream);
                job.setPageable(new PDFPageable(pdDocument));
                job.setPrintService(services);
                job.print();
                System.out.println("Done");
    
            } catch (Exception pe) {
                pe.printStackTrace();
    
            } finally {
                if (pdDocument != null) {
                    pdDocument.close();
                }
            }
    
    
        }
    }
    

    pom.xml:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
        <groupId>it.fortytwoapps</groupId>
        <artifactId>so-50249273</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
                <artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
                <version>5.5.13</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
                <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.9</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </project>