Saving report to a PDF file

Saving report to a PDF file

Printing Invoices, purchase orders and checks has always been an painful task in SAP, especially if you are using SAP forms.

Fortunately SAP provides printing reports/documents in a PDF format. You could make your reports appear nearly as "smart" as smart forms using this technique.

Use this function module: CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF, this converts your spool request to a PDF file on your desktop.

As an example look into this program (4.6x): RSTXPDFT4.

Advantages:

1. Voila'! Trendy report printing made really very easy.

On the flip-side:

1. You have to send your report to printer and then print the spool to PDF file, so if the user sets his/her defaults to "print immediately"...boom! waste of paper. But this can be over come by using the function module - GET_PRINT_PARAMETERS to suppress printing but just create spool.

2. You cannot control the font size on reports, so is your PDF file.

Alternate function module: SX_OBJECT_CONVERT_OTF_PDF.

So next time you think about great reports think PDF.


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