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e712. Printing to a File

There are two ways to print to a file. One way is to use a streaming print service (see e701 The Quintessential Printing Program Using a Streaming Printing Service) that writes to an output stream that you supply. The other is to request that the print service write directly into a specified file. This example demonstrates the latter, by using a Destination print job attribute to specify the destination filename. The example prints to a file called e:\temp\out.ps. Print job attributes are delivered to the print service via the print request attribute set supplied to DocPrintJob.print(). See e700 The Quintessential Printing Program Using a Printing Service to see how to set up a print job.
    try {
        // Set up destination attribute
        PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
        aset.add(new Destination(new java.net.URI("file:e:/temp/out.ps")));
    
        // Print it
        job.print(doc, aset);
    } catch (PrintException e) {
    } catch (java.net.URISyntaxException e) {
    }

 Related Examples
e710. Setting the Orientation of a Print Job -- Portrait or Landscape
e711. Setting the Number of Copies of a Print Job


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