Hello,

as we know Java does not provide any classes to preview JComponent before sending it to printer. So, I want to build my own class/classes to make a preview JFrame for this purpose. Just like a "Print Preview" frame e.g. in Word, Excel, etc.

Could you please advise me what steps I need to take in order to:
  1. pass a JTable in Graphics2D object in order to print it on screen
  2. create a Pageable object from the JTable as to getNumOfPages of the JTable
  3. how to use Book and what steps to take as to split the JTable in multiple pages inside Book
  4. how to go through preview pages when pressing "nextPage" and "previousPage" JButtons
  5. how to zoom in and a zoom out the preview of the current page
    (using getScaledInstance from BufferedImage is not what I want, since it does not produce nice results even in BufferedImage.SCALE_SMOOTH mode and it is very slow)


Are my thoughts correct ?

Any advice would be highly appreciated.