JDK 6 upd 5, 7, 10 that have been tried and reproduced the
issue.
Windows XP
Microsoft I.E. 6 and 7.


Steps to reproduce:

Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2.080814-1233 in both
cases.

Loaded the demo applet from Sun's own site
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.4/demo/applets/SpreadSheet/example1.ht
ml

The applet displayed the 4 x 3 spreadsheet. The applet image is
relatively small. I highlighted cell C4, then requested File->Print
from the Browser.

With JRE 1.4.2_10 the .emf file produced is 154,068 bytes. The file is
named:
/cores/JRE142_10.AL7EX49K.emf

With JRE 1.6.0_05 the .emf file produced is 1,843,724 bytes. The file
is named:
/cores/JRE160_05.OLOJU5K3.emf


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Customer description of the problem.

When MS Internet Explorer (v 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.080814-1233) browser-ini
tiate print command is used to print a page displaying a Java applet [seen with
SRE 1.6.0_05 and 1.6.0_07] the applet's image is saved to an .emf file (enhanced
windows metafile). This file is not deleted even after MSIE is exited and will
\ persist in the %TEMP% directory indefinitely. The file cannot be deleted as l
ong as MSIE is running. Because the file size is much larger with Java 1.6.0 th
an with Java 1.4.2, the user's drive can fill up with these files and result in
other errors from lack of space.

Have test results from 2006 with Windows XP SP1 that in that release (and JRE 1.
4.2_04) the .emf file was deleted as soon as the printer successfully acknowledg
ed completion of the print job. (Do not currently have configuration to reprodu
ce this test.)


Do not see emf files created when using Firefox 3.0 to print pages with applets.
However, Firefox print preview shows a blank space instead of the applet's dis
played image; the print output on paper is correct however.

This behavior does not produce any errors until the policy quota for temp files
is reached or the disk drive is filled. This can happen if the user keeps MSIE
up for a long time and prints many pages with applets. This is much more seriou
s with JRE 1.6.0 than 1.4.2 as the metafiles are typically ten times larger with
1.6.0 than for the same applet running under 1.4.2.

Additional technical information from customer
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1. I have tested only Firefox 3.0 with JRE 1.6.0_07 on Windows XP. I
have not found out about the mechanism Mozilla Firefox uses to print
objects embedded on web pages. It does not appear to use .emf files,
even in the Windows implementation. In my testing, the applet displayed
only on the printout; it was blank space in the print preview dialog.


2. The vendor that is customizing the browser has told us so far that
they let the native MSIE print engine operate on the web pages. The
link between MSIE browser print and the overridden PrintAll method in
our applet would be through the Java plug-in.


3. Native MSIE uses the .emf file to marshal to the printer, the
rendered image from embedded objects (such as Java applets) that the
browser does not render via its own code. I have reached out to our
technical contact at Microsoft for a clearer understanding, as well as
answer the question you posed in a later e-mail