Gnostice Document Studio Java
Next-generation multi-format document-processing component suite for Java SE/EE developers

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XtremeDocumentStudio (for Java) is the next-generation multi-format document-processing component suite for Java SE/EE developers. It can display, print and convert DOCX, PDF and image files without requiring any external software. In this article, you will learn how to print a document.

In this code snippet, we have used a DOCX file. We check whether a printer is installed checking the length of the DocumentPrinter.getAvailablePrinterNames() array. If there is a printer, we print the document to the default printer.

import java.awt.print.PrinterException;
import java.io.IOException;

import com.gnostice.core.XDocException;
import com.gnostice.documents.controls.swing.printer.DocumentPrinter;

public class DocumentPrintingDemo {
  
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      DocumentPrinter prn = new DocumentPrinter();
      if (prn.getAvailablePrinterNames().length > 0) {
        // Load a document
        prn.loadDocument("unicode.docx","");
        // Print to default printer
        prn.print();  
        // Unload IO resources of the document
        prn.closeDocument();
      } else {
        System.out.println("No printer found.");
      }
    } catch (XDocException e) {
      // TODO Auto-generated catch block
      e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      // TODO Auto-generated catch block
      e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (PrinterException e) {
      // TODO Auto-generated catch block
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

}

To demonstrate the print output, we had set an XPS software printer as the default device. Here is the input DOCX and output XPS documents.