I hope this message is well received.
Over the past year, I've been trying to leverage Java as a cross-platform
desktop printing solution. My success has varied. Below are some items
that have caused hiccups or hard-fails specifically to the Mac OS...
- PDFBOX just released a major update "2.0". Unfortunately the majority
of PDFs out there seem to crash JVM out completely on Mac.
- Upstream bug reports:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042693
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8038142
- Downstream bug report:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2682
- El Capitan... We're getting several emails a week stating the
printers simply won't list when calling
PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices.
- No one knows how to reproduce the bug, so we don't have exact steps to
recreate
- When it happens, none or only a few printers will list
- The ever-so-harsh "Reset Printing System" seems to fix it, but this
is a drastic measure if the client has a lot of configured devices
- Is anyone else having inconsistent results with
lookupPrintServices? CUPS command line seems to be OK.
- CUPS offers some useful information, such as default DPI, but why
don't we implement them?
- PrintService.getDefaultAttributeValue(PrinterResolution.class) returns
null always (Linux too BTW)
- Where there's a will, there's a way...
https://github.com/qzind/tray/issues/2#issuecomment-199827794
A bit off topic, but when PDFBOX crashes the JVM, the stack trace message
says to file a bug at a location that doesn't accept bug reports (
http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT), so where's best to file these
things? (I filled out the Oracle bug form, but it took a while to find and
now I'm not sure where the submission went or if its even worth mentioning
since it's clearly a duplicate).
Best regards,
-Tres
- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
