[kepler-dev] Kepler snapshot capability

[Edward A. Lee]

I routinely print to PDF, using Adobe Acrobat.
Works well...

Edward

At 04:43 PM 5/29/2007, Lisong Sun wrote:
>Dear Kepler developers,
>
>Our project needs to generate a thumbnail kind of snapshot of current 
>workflow so that people can have a preview of the workflow in our 
>workflow organizer application before open it with Kepler. I found that 
>the Print menu option can be used for export a ps file of current 
>workflow window but it won't work for our case. I wonder if the snapshot 
>generation/export capability or function is available anywhere? If not, 
>is there any possible solution you can suggest?
>Thanks.
>
>Lisong Sun
>Pacific Northwest National Lab.
>
>======================================
>Print function from Top.java
>    /** Print the contents.  If this frame implements either the
>     *  Printable or Pageable then those interfaces are used to print
>     *  it.
>     */
>    protected void _print() {
>        PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
>
>        if (this instanceof Pageable) {
>            job.setPageable((Pageable) this);
>        } else if (this instanceof Printable) {
>            PageFormat format = job.pageDialog(job.defaultPage());
>            job.setPrintable((Printable) this, format);
>        } else {
>            // Can't print it.
>            return;
>        }
>
>        if (job.printDialog()) {
>            try {
>                job.print();
>            } catch (Exception ex) {
>                MessageHandler.error("Printing Failed", ex);
>            }
>        }
>    }
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