Hi everyone,

            I think you guys have misunderstood my question in that i am
not talking about scaling for printing but something of a zoom in and zoom
out for the JTextPane

Here is a full compilable example where you guys can compile the code and
see what i mean first hand

[code]
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;

public class JTextScalar

{
    JFrame fr = new JFrame ("Frame");

    JScalableTextPane TextPane1 = new JScalableTextPane();

    StyleContext sc = new StyleContext();

    DefaultStyledDocument dse = new DefaultStyledDocument(sc);

    JScrollPane ScrollPane1 = new JScrollPane(TextPane1,
ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,
    ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);

    StyledEditorKit StyledEditorKit1 = new StyledEditorKit();                
                     

    JViewport viewport;

    public void initialize()
    {
        Container pane = fr.getContentPane();
        pane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        fr.setSize(250,300);
        fr.setLocation(300,300);
        fr.setBackground(Color.lightGray);

        dse.putProperty("i18n", Boolean.TRUE);

        TextPane1.setEditorKit(StyledEditorKit1);

        //The below command line sets the document that the JTextPane will be
        //be referencing to

        TextPane1.setDocument(dse);

        viewport = new JViewport();
        viewport.setView(TextPane1);
        viewport.setScrollMode(viewport.SIMPLE_SCROLL_MODE);
        //viewport.setScrollMode(viewport.BACKINGSTORE_SCROLL_MODE);
        ScrollPane1.setViewport(viewport);

        pane.add("Center", ScrollPane1);
        //ScrollPane1.invalidate();
        ScrollPane1.revalidate();
        ScrollPane1.repaint();
        TextPane1.revalidate();
        TextPane1.repaint();

        fr.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        fr.pack();
        fr.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        JTextScalar a = new JTextScalar();
        a.initialize();
    }
}

class JScalableTextPane extends JTextPane

{
    /*
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
//This function overrides the JPanel paintComponent function
//and paints the buffered image on the JPEGPanel

Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS,
                    RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);

g2d.scale(0.5, 0.5);
//AffineTransform old = g2d.getTransform();
//g2d.setTransform(old);
//super.notify();
//super.revalidate();
//super.repaint();
super.paintComponent(g2d);
}
*/
    public void paint(Graphics g)
    {
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS,
        RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);

        g2d.scale(0.5,0.5);
        AffineTransform old = g2d.getTransform();
        g2d.setTransform(old);
        super.paint(g2d);
    }

    public Dimension getPreferredSize()
    {
        Dimension d= super.getPreferredSize();
        d.setSize(d.width*0.5,d.height*0.5);  
        return d;
    }

    public Dimension getMinimumSize ()
    {
        Dimension d= super.getMinimumSize ();
        d.setSize(d.width*0.5,d.height*0.5);  
        return d;
    }

    public Dimension getMaximumSize ()
    {
        Dimension d= super.getMaximumSize();
        d.setSize(d.width*0.5,d.height*0.5);  
        return d;
    }

    public Dimension getSize ()
    {
        Dimension d= super.getSize ();
        d.setSize(d.width*0.5,d.height*0.5);  
        return d;
    }

}

The thing is that the text is scaled corretly but ScrollPane screws up
completely and the typing of the text is not accurate

Is the way i am scaling the JTextpane correct?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West