I am looking for a way to print the contents of a JavaFX TableView. I understand that JavaFX doesn't have Printing capabillities just yet (what a disapointment). I have found some information about taking a screenshot of a WebView for example and print it as an image.
Is it possible to do something like that with a Table view. How to go about to handle multiple pages on tables with many data.
Thanks for your help
Printing API appeared in fx8.0. And it can print nodes. You can create printer job with javafx.print.PrinterJob class. But it prints only region that fits to a printed page, and not the one that you on a screen. So you need to make your node fit page(scale, translate, etc) by hands. Here is simple printing example:
PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.createPrinterJob();
if(printerJob.showPrintDialog(primaryStage.getOwner()) && printerJob.printPage(yourNode))
printerJob.endJob();
Snip the area you want
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0,0,dataDisplayAreaAnchorPane.getWidth(),dataDisplayAreaAnchorPane.getHeight());
dataDisplayAreaAnchorPane.setClip(rect);
WritableImage writableImage;
writableImage = new WritableImage((int) dataDisplayAreaAnchorPane.getPrefWidth(),
(int) dataDisplayAreaAnchorPane.getPrefHeight());
dataDisplayAreaAnchorPane.snapshot(null, writableImage);
eventDispatcher.printLandscape(writableImage);
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Resize according to A4 paper size and print
public void print(WritableImage writableImage, Stage primaryStage) {
ImageView imageView =new ImageView(writableImage);
Printer printer = Printer.getDefaultPrinter();
PageLayout pageLayout = printer.createPageLayout(Paper.A4, PageOrientation.LANDSCAPE, Printer.MarginType.DEFAULT);
double scaleX = pageLayout.getPrintableWidth() / imageView.getBoundsInParent().getWidth();
double scaleY = pageLayout.getPrintableHeight() / imageView.getBoundsInParent().getHeight();
imageView.getTransforms().add(new Scale(scaleX, scaleY));
PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.createPrinterJob();
if (job != null) {
boolean successPrintDialog = job.showPrintDialog(primaryStage.getOwner());
if(successPrintDialog){
boolean success = job.printPage(pageLayout,imageView);
if (success) {
job.endJob();
}
}
}
}