For details of the generic print framework, see The
generic printing framework.
The Framework printing classes are located in the ilog.views.print package.
The architecture of this package is based on
four main components:
- A configuration document: The document containing the printing configuration.
- The manager: The IlvManager to print.
- The print UI: Some specialized dialog boxes and interactors that allow you to configure printing properties such as the page format, the orientation, the header and footer, the number of pages, and so on.
- The printing controller: A high-level class that manages the document to print. You can use the printing controller to invoke the Print dialog box or the Page Setup dialog box, to preview the document, and to send the document to the selected printer.
There are three ways to print the contents of an
IlvManager
object in a document:
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You can print a manager (or an area of a manager) in multiple pages. Using the predefined document class IlvManagerPrintableDocument, you simply have to specify the manager object you want to print and some printing parameters such as the number of pages and the area to print.
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You can print a manager (or an area of a manager) in a flow of text.
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You can print a manager (or an area of a manager) in a custom document structure. In this mode, you create your own document and insert a printable object that represents a manager in a page.