URGENT: Textured filled geometric shapes are not printed when the shapes are large

[Tanveer Rameez]

hello
I have a strange problem. I have a frame where I paint a filled rectangle. Now if I print it, it prints fine(the printing may need several pages if the rectangle is large).
But if I use TexturePaint to fill the rectangle with texture(tiled image), the printing is fine for small rectangle, but hangs when the rectangle is large.
When I clicked on the printer icon that appears in the taskbar in Windows to display the printing status dialog, I found that the temporary file created in the buffer for printing is huge(can be upto 10MB!!) if I use texture and the size is much smaller if I don't use texture (just fill the rectangle by color). So I guess because of the huge size of the buffer file, the printing is not possible(the file did not go to the printer).
Can anybody tell me what is the problem and how to solve it.
Actually my program will fill several geometric shapes which may span several pages.
here is a sample code. Just copy and save it in a file "testframe.java" and run it. You must have a printer to check it out. Then click on the printer icon to see the file size. Ofcourse the problem may be something else .

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
class testpanel extends JPanel implements Printable
{
Image m_Image;
BufferedImage bi;
TexturePaint tp=null;
int i=0;
public testpanel()
{
m_Image=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("D:\\patt11.jpg"); //select a pattern image file(usually it is small-16x16 to 48x48
//ofcourse it can be of any size)
try{
MediaTracker mt=new MediaTracker(this);
mt.addImage(m_Image,0);
mt.waitForID(0);
}catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(" error:" +e);
}
bi=new BufferedImage(m_Image.getWidth(null),m_Image.getHeight(null),BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics g=bi.getGraphics();
g.drawImage(m_Image,0,0,null);
tp=new TexturePaint(bi,new Rectangle(0,0,m_Image.getWidth(null),m_Image.getHeight(null)));
}
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
Graphics2D g2d=(Graphics2D)g;
g2d.setPaint(tp);
g2d.fillRect(50,50,350,350);//line 1
// if the line 1 works and prints fine, then comment line 1 and then uncomment line 2 and print
//g2d.fillRect(50,50,550,550);//line 2
// if the line 2 works and prints fine , then comment line 2 and then uncomment line 3 and print
//g2d.fillRect(50,50,getWidth(),getHeight()); //line 3
//if line 3 works and prints fine, try bigger rectangfle, probably of multiple pages
//what I found is that if I don't use the line g2d.setPaint(tp) and I print big filled rectangle
//the printing is fine, but if I use setpaint to fill textures the printin halts
}
public int print(Graphics g,PageFormat pf,int index)
{
g.translate((int)pf.getImageableX(),(int)pf.getImageableY());
paint(g);
if(index==0) return this.PAGE_EXISTS;
else return this.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
}
}

   public class testframe extends JFrame implements ActionListener,Runnable
   {
testpanel m_testpanel=new testpanel();
public testframe()
{
getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
getContentPane().add(m_testpanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
JButton printbut=new JButton("Print");
printbut.addActionListener(this);
getContentPane().add(printbut,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
setSize(500,500);
setVisible(true);
}
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
testframe f=new testframe();
   }
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
   {
new Thread(this).start();
   }
   public void run()
   {
printIt();
   }
   private void printIt()
   {
 // Create an object that will hold all print parameters, such as
      // page size, printer resolution. In addition, it manages the print
      // process (job).
      PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
      PageFormat pg=job.defaultPage();
      // It is first called to tell it what object will print each page.
     /*
      Book book=new Book();
      book.append(m_testpanel,pg);
      job.setPageable(book);
      */
      job.setPrintable(m_testpanel);
        // Then it is called to display the standard print options dialog.
      if (job.printDialog())
      {
 // If the user has pressed OK (printDialog returns true)
 pg=job.pageDialog(pg);
 job.validatePage(pg);
 // then go
 // ahead with the printing. This is started by the simple call to
 // the job print() method. When it runs, it calls the page print
 // object for page index 0. Then page index 1, 2, and so on
 // until NO_SUCH_PAGE is returned.
 try {
job.print();
      }
                 catch (PrinterException e)
      {
e.printStackTrace();
 JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(this,"Error printing the image!","ERROR!!",
                 JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION, JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
       }
      }
   }
}

I think the problem might be because when I use an image(I used 48x48 pixel image which is small), to texturepaint, the image object is copied several times for tiling, thereby requiring large memory. Let me know is there any solution to it.If now is there any other way to texture paint/fill or tile any large shape(my shapes can be irregular too, like area of intersection between two irregular polygons) and print them.
Thanks in advance
regards
Tanveer