Now we are ready to try and print something from SAP.
#ADOBE WRITER SOFTWARE PDF#
Here we will setup our printer with the PDF Device Type.įor our access method we want to use F (Printing on Front end computer) and default in the name we gave the device on the front end. Next we want to go to transaction SPAD in our SAP System. That way later in the SAP Printer setup we can default in that name. If you want the front end printing to be fairly transparent then you want to be sure to use the same name for each front end device you setup. The only draw back to this solution is that I must setup an output device on each workstation that will use this solution. Then I can create PDF files on the fly from my SAP output, similar to an Adobe Printer Driver. On my front end, I will setup a simple generic text printer that is routed to a file instead of a printer port. What I wanted was a printer ID in SAP that would convert output to PDF and send it for front end printing. It has the instructions and files necessary for installing the PDF Device type.
#ADOBE WRITER SOFTWARE CODE#
If you are on a release older than 46D or if you are missing the device type for your code page (some of the latest code pages were not supported until 640), have a look at OSS note 317851. All systems on top of Basis (WebAS) version 46D and higher already have this device type for at least Latin-1. Therefore I thought other people might be interested in the solution as well.įirst of all you will need the PDF device type in your SAP system. I found several OSS notes that put me on the write path yet I never found where the solution was exactly laid out. The task I set out to try and complete was setting up a simple PDF writer in our 4.6C R/3 system. However I want to look at something a little simpler first. I have been playing with that a lot lately and I plan to write some weblogs on it soon. Now I know that we have all the cool new Adobe Forms technology in Netweaver 04. It is also a really common request from the users to add a PDF export option to the reports that we write in SAP. It seems like everyone and their brother has the Adobe PDF writer application. Maybe we are just control freaks and like the locked-in nature of a PDF document. I don’t know about your company, but mine just loves PDF documents.
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