Saturday, April 8, 2017

Convert Smartform to PDF in Print Preview Mode. pdf!




SAP users who want to convert Smartform to PDF file and download Smartform as PDF can use SAP transaction code PDF! . 

SAP PDF! transaction will give Smartform to PDF conversion while the SAP Smartform output is being displayed on the screen in Print Preview mode.

Using PDF! tcode to convert Smartform to PDF file format and download Smartform as PDF is an easy method compared with printing  SAP output document to spool and emailing the spool file to your email address within spool transaction SP01.

In order to use PDF! transaction to download Smartform output as PDF file to your local computer, first display SAP Smartform output in Preview mode.

I'm going to use some transaction screen to display SAP Order Confirmation output for a sample sales order.

Follow menu options "Sales Document" > "Issue Output To" on example VA03 screen after you provide a sales order number.Choose an output message from list. Press Print preview button.




When SAP Smartform output is displayed on screen for the selected sales order, invoice, 
delivery note, etc., use the command field to call SAP transaction PDF!






After you type PDF! tcode in command field area, press Enter to execute Smartform to PDF conversion code.

This SAP transaction will open PDF Preview screen displaying SAP Smartform output for the related SAP document as seen in below screenshot. If you hower over the PDF Preview screen,
a list of buttons will appear which we are familier from PDF documents.


These PDF buttons enable SAP user save Smartform output as PDF file to your local folders or print Smartform document
directly as PDF file. During save or print process the conversion from Smartform to PDF is done in PDF! tcode screen.






If getting issue canot find PDL type for output device LP01


To be able to use an XDC file, you must assign it to the device type used in the SAP system. You can make this assignment via the report RSPO0022.
The report also enables you to define a default for all device types of a printer language

And below snote would you help you to fix this issue

685571 - Printing SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
1444342 - Device type-independent printing of ADS forms

5 comments:

  1. For controlling the business task and activities there are various technologies which are working or using for performing this task in the different business. You can see this https://twbs.com/ for getting the SAP modules for your company which are used managing the business activities and assigning the task.

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  2. Hello. I have an issue with PDF!: it doesn't do anything and no error message. I'v check the notes you mentioned but it didn't solve my problem. No popup windows, No error message anywhere. What am I missing?

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  3. One of my PROD user is Facing printimg issue from SAP PDF preview

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  4. For me it looks strange. Print Preview is working in DEV & QAS but not in PROD.
    In PROD T-code PRD! and Standard Preview is working.
    Any ideas what could be the issue ??

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