printing PDF on Macintosh

Chang

Hello

I have an application, which has to write PDF files using java.awt.print.Printable and which works fine on Windows clients.
Now I want to do the same on Macintosh, but I just get a dialog with "Keine Druckdienste gefunden", which means "No printservices available".

The class looks like this

public class Fax2 implements Printable
{
     ...
     @Override
	public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pi)
			throws PrinterException 
	{
                Graphics2D  g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
                g2.drawLine(175, 170, 600, 170);
                ...
                 
        }

}

and it gets called like this

                        Fax2 fax = new Fax2();
			PrinterJob printjob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
			printjob.setPrintable(fax);
			try
			{
				HashPrintRequestAttributeSet attr = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
				attr.add(OrientationRequested.LANDSCAPE);
				boolean printAccepted = printjob.printDialog(attr);  
		    	if (printAccepted)
		    		printjob.print(attr);
			}
			catch(PrinterException e)
			{
				e.printStackTrace();
			}

Kind regards,
Chang

User_64CKJ

Have you tried:

Desktop.getDesktop().print(new File("the.pdf"));

?

Chang

Thanks for your help Andrew.
Sorry there is something more to say. On the windows machine I installed a PDF printer, which i can choose in the PrintJob.printDialog() Dialog to build a PDF.
On Macintosh there is this functionallity normally built in so there is no need to install a pdf printer, but java does not open the native Macintosh print Dialog and I'm not able to produce a PDF on Macintosh.
Therefore I don't know which file to give to

Desktop.getDesktop().print(new File("???"));

regards,
Chang

Chang

Is the question not clear or is there no easy solution for this?
I will rephrase it and i hope it gets clearer.

On windows I have to install a third party pdf-printer and then user is able to choose this pdf-printer from the java-printdialog.
On macintosh there is a native pdf-printer and i want to use this native printer, because i cannot find other pdf-printers for macintosh, but for this i need the native macintosh printdialog to open...
Currently I'm not able to open any printdialog neither java nor native on macintosh.