> I could not find a list the possible values nor an explanation > of what they do, only a hint that pdl might be a good idea.
It now occurs to me that PDL must stand for Page Description Language, i.e., just what I wanted but you say it's normally a no-op. > I don't know what you are driving at [with you remarks on Windows printers] I am vague on the architecture of Windows printing. I was hoping that in the case of "real" printers (i.e., with their own rasterizers) applications are talking directly to the printer driver that is installed with the printer, not to some generic Windows printer driver. If that's not the case maybe for high-quaklity printing you are better off generating PostScript and sending that directly to the printer? A few printers also understand PDF. > Are you seeing this only when printing a Swing UI? How are you printing? Yes, I was printing a JPanel with plots in it, i.e., just text ad line art but with some transparency. > Are you calling "component.paint(printerGraphics) on the printer graphics. No I was calling print and I even turned off Swing buffering manually but I was still getting bitmaps. However now that you told me that print never rasterizes I went back and I realized the problem is that a sub-widget was doing its own buffering for performance reasons and I was not turning off _that_. It seems to work fine now. Thanks! While we are talkinmg, I have a subsidiary question. When printing or saving to file the print size is not necessarily what is shown on the screen. One can simply apply a scaling transform to the graphics object or one can keep around a private, non-displayable copy of the widget and resize that one before printing it. The first solution is simpler but are there any gotchas with rescaling that I am not aware of? Regards, -- O.L. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
