please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi,

i am new in java, i am trying to print string to my printer i found some code from the sun website, however it doesnt seem to do the job; there is mainly two problems:

1) the printer or the code doesnt recognize the '\n' in the string to be printed

2) it doesnt seem to print multiple pages; i tried typing a huge string spanning over one page but it just prints up to one page

here is the code:

/*
* Created on Apr 3, 2004
*
* To change the template for this generated file go to
* Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments
*/
package processing;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.text.*;
/**
* The PrintText application expands on the
* PrintExample application in that it images
* text on to the single page printed.
*/
public class PrintText implements Printable {
/**
* The text to be printed.
*/
private static final String mText =
"Four score and \n seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this "
+ "government \n of the people, by the people, for the people shall "
+'\n'+ "not perish from the earth.";


/**
* Our text in a form for which we can obtain a
* AttributedCharacterIterator.
*/
private static final AttributedString mStyledText = new AttributedString(mText);
/**
* Print a single page containing some sample text.
*/
static public void main(String args[]) {
/* Get the representation of the current printer and
* the current print job.
*/
PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
/* Build a book containing pairs of page painters (Printables)
* and PageFormats. This example has a single page containing
* text.
*/
Book book = new Book();
book.append(new PrintText(), new PageFormat());
/* Set the object to be printed (the Book) into the PrinterJob.
* Doing this before bringing up the print dialog allows the
* print dialog to correctly display the page range to be printed
* and to dissallow any print settings not appropriate for the
* pages to be printed.
*/
printerJob.setPageable(book);



/* Show the print dialog to the user. This is an optional step
* and need not be done if the application wants to perform
* 'quiet' printing. If the user cancels the print dialog then false
* is returned. If true is returned we go ahead and print.
*/
boolean doPrint = printerJob.printDialog();
if (doPrint) {



try {
printerJob.print();
} catch (PrinterException exception) {
System.err.println("Printing error: " + exception);
}
}
}
/**
* Print a page of text.
*/
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pageIndex) {
/* We'll assume that Jav2D is available.
*/
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
/* Move the origin from the corner of the Paper to the corner
* of the imageable area.
*/
g2d.translate(format.getImageableX(), format.getImageableY());
/* Set the text color.
*/
g2d.setPaint(Color.black);
/* Use a LineBreakMeasurer instance to break our text into
* lines that fit the imageable area of the page.
*/
Point2D.Float pen = new Point2D.Float();
AttributedCharacterIterator charIterator = mStyledText.getIterator();
LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(charIterator, g2d.getFontRenderContext());
float wrappingWidth = (float) format.getImageableWidth();



while (measurer.getPosition() < charIterator.getEndIndex()) {
TextLayout layout = measurer.nextLayout(wrappingWidth);
pen.y += layout.getAscent();
float dx = layout.isLeftToRight()? 0 : (wrappingWidth - layout.getAdvance());
layout.draw(g2d, pen.x + dx, pen.y);
pen.y += layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
}
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
}

}


any help or suggestions would much appreciated

thanks