= Print Explorer Wiki = Odd quirks have given me quite a lot of trouble when using the support for Printing in Java. Built this test program as a means to systematically explore and report the problems. == Usage == PrintExplorer is pretty straight-forward. # Select the printer (PrintService) that you want to use from the selector at the top. # Select a tab for the particular dialect you wish to exercise. # Click buttons to adjust parameters and invoke print-related operations. Notes... * Parameters and relevant information are presented in "before" and "after" panels. * Each tab corresponds to a Print API dialect. * The program records a log file "print-test-log.html" with the parameters used and the APIs invoked. * Before and after parameters are color-coded (blue for before, red for after) both in the GUI and in the HTML log. If you can come up with a sequence to reproduce a bug, the log shows the '''exact''' series of operations. Should be useful in reporting bugs. (The program is still a work in progress, and the DocPrinterJob tab works, though not for a Doc using a Reader.) == Print Dialects == There seem to be three distinct attempts at defining a Printing API for Java. Bit of a mess. They do not really interoperate, and none strike me a well-factored.