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.