Nebula Paperclips

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Introduction

Welcome to PaperClips: a simple, light weight, extensible Java printing plug-in for SWT. PaperClips hides the complexity of laying out and rendering documents on the printer, helping you focus on what to print instead of how to print it.

In a nutshell, PaperClips provides an assortment of document "building blocks," which you can tweak and combine to form a custom document. The assembled document is then sent to PaperClips for printing. PaperClips includes support for printing text, images, borders, headers and footers, column layouts and grid layouts, to name a few. It can also be extended with your own printable classes.

With PaperClips you do not have to track cursors, calculate line breaking, fool around with font metrics, or manage system resources--it's all handled internally. And unlike report-generation tools, you are not constrained to a predefined document structure (like report bands). Every document is custom and the layout is up to you.

Requirements:

• Java 1.8 or later.
• SWT 3.2 or later. SWT may be downloaded at [1].

PaperClips can be used as an Eclipse plug-in or as a regular Jar (provided the SWT libraries are on the classpath).

FAQ

FAQ is available at the following address : Paperclips_FAQ

Tutorials

• Beginning Tutorial - for beginners
• GridPrint Tutorial - a detailed discussion of the usage and features of the GridPrint class.
• PagePrint Tutorial - How to add custom headers and footers with page numbers