Just a quick update on this: painting using the print method to a streaming Graphics2D object that writes SVG/PostScript/PDF/whatever to file will give the "correct" results, i.e., not a bitmap, provided print is used correctly (i.e., printComponent and printBorder in the widget tree may need to be overridden and customized). However to get "correct" results when actually printing to a printer you do have to set the sun.java2d.print.pipeline property to pdl. Thus I think it might be useful to bring that property out in the open, so to speak, and stop regarding it as a private testing back-end.
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