A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The Table Printing provided in JDK 1.5 misses some key features for header/footer and the even the clipping algorithm can be improved.

I have listed down the missing features,

1) Even when in Fit_Width mode, the table data is clipped if the width is too long. The underlying algorithm needs to be improved to accomodate this.

2) The header/footer data if too long, is not scaled to fit the page.

3) No provision to create multi-line headers/footers.

4) No Option to specify borders for header/footer.



JUSTIFICATION :
Most of the tables printed using swings JTable are used as reports.
Mostly all reports have bordered header/footer that fit in a single page.
The content of header/footer in a report normally has mutliple lines of text to show page number , date etc.
As header/footer are shown on all pages, they should ideally scale to fit to the page if the data is too wide.
The data (specially numerical) shown in the tables is clipped even in the Fit_Width mode.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
1) Option to show a print dialog.
2) Option to show a progress bar.
3) Option to specify the table title.
4) Option to specify multiline header.
5) Option to specify multiline footer.
6) Option to specify borders for header, footer or the table itself.
7) Any formatting applied on the JTable will be rendered during printing.
8) Supports two printing modes,
a) NORMAL - That retains the current width of the table and prints it using the default settings. The table columns this way may span to multiple pages if the table width is more that the page width.
b) FIT_WIDTH - This mode scales the width of the table to fit the page by changing the padding or font of the text. If there are too many columns, some of the data is clipped and the table is aligned in the center. If the table width is smaller than the page width then the table is padded to match the page width.
ACTUAL -
The Table Printing provided in JDK 1.5 misses the following features,

1) Even when in Fit_Width mode, the table data is clipped if the width is too long. The underlying algorithm needs to be improved to accomodate this.
2) The header/footer data if too long, is not scaled to fit the page.
3) No provision to create multi-line headers/footers.
4) No Option to specify borders for header/footer.


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Use the print() method available in javax.swing.JTable.

The change may affect TablePrintable class in javax.swing package.
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