PDF Printing - Margin Problem

[faoilean]

Java JRE version 1.6.0_18

Hi there,

I'm trying to set the margin of a pdf page that is being sent to my printer from an applet. The two methods I've tried are setImageableArea and I've also tried to pass PrintRequestAttributeSet to the print job but neither seem to work.

Is there any other way to set the margin on my printout?

thanks,
faoilean.

import javax.print.PrintService;
import java.awt.print.Book;
import java.awt.print.PageFormat;


URL pdfFile = new URL(pdfURLStr);
write_message("Printing URL: " + pdfURLStr);
document = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);
 
List pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
 
if (pages.isEmpty())
{
   write_message("Pages list is empty");
} else 
  {
   write_message("Pages list is NOT empty");
   Iterator it = pages.iterator();
 
   while (it.hasNext()) 
   {
       PDPage currentPage = (PDPage) it.next();
       Map map = currentPage.findResources().getFonts();
 
       write_message("Map is: "+map.toString());
       Set mySet = map.keySet();
 
       Iterator setInt = mySet.iterator();
 
       while (setInt.hasNext()) 
       {
 
           String val = (String)setInt.next();
 
           PDType1Font pdt = (PDType1Font)map.get(val);
           write_message("'"+val+""+pdt.getFontDescriptor().getFontName()+"'");
 
           PDFont currFont = this.loadFontByName(document,pdt.getFontDescriptor().getFontName(),val);
 
           if(currFont != null)
           {
                 currentPage.findResources().getFonts().put(val,currFont);
           }
        }
   }
}
 
 
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
printJob.setPrintService(currentPrintService);
 
PageFormat pForm = new PageFormat();
Paper paper = new Paper();
paper.setSize(594.936, 841.536);
 
[B]double margin = 36; // half inch
paper.setImageableArea(margin, margin, paper.getWidth() - margin * 2, paper.getHeight()  - margin * 2);
pForm.setPaper(paper);[/B]
 
Book book = new Book();
book.append(document.getPrintable(0), pForm, (int)document.getDocumentCatalog().getPages().getCount());
printJob.setPageable(book);
 
[B]PrintRequestAttributeSet attributes = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
float xmargin = 0.5f;
float ymargin = 0.5f;
float w = 595;
float h = 842;
attributes.add(new MediaPrintableArea(xmargin, ymargin, w - 2*xmargin, h - 2*ymargin, MediaPrintableArea.INCH));[/B]
 
printJob.print(attributes);
 
document.close();