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When trying to print my class file from the editor in Forte (File | Print) there are a couple of quirks: 1) When the first printer dialog box is diaplyed, if the "Cancel" button is clicked, the second printer dialog box is still displayed. 2) In the second printer dialog box, it shows that I can select pages 1 to 9999 in the current document, even though the document (my class file) is less than 90 lines. 3) When printing my class file, it creates a print job that is appx 1.45MB big. This job never completes (I cancel the print job in Win98 after 5 minutes). When the page spits out, it prints some of the top portion of the class file.
Created attachment 102 [details] screenshots of printer dialogs
ad 1) It doesn't happen to me. However I guess it can happen because of the different printer setups. ad 3) The print job is generated by the java printing API in the JDK that we use. We are not able to shrink the size from NetBeans. Alesi, can you explain better some of the complaints below?
ad 1) In former releases of NetBeans, we had two dialogs. The first one was "Page Setup". So if you cancel the setup it soes not mean that you want to cancel whole print job. However, the dialog was obsoleted because of bugs in jdk 1.2.x - which we must comply with. ad 2) The second dialog is a native windows dialog, and we do not have any control what it displays. Again, things are even worse thanks to bugs. On the other hand, it allows you to specify both side printing, quality of printing, ...
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.