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Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:46:04 GMT

Dear Gurus,

Anyone who can assist with the code to compress and decompress PDF file so that I can send it in an email.

Thanks

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:01:48 GMT

Hi,

use the class

CL_ABAP_ZIP

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[http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/CL_ABAP_ZIPusage-ZippingABAPreportoutput]

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:15:44 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your answer, it gives me this error.

cl_abap_zip is unknown.

any ideas?

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:27:06 GMT

This class may not exisi on your system. i think it's above ECC6

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:28:08 GMT

Hi Mpangib,

Check this [url|http://www.easymarketplace.de/SAPCAR.php#Compress].

It serves your requirement.

Regards,

Pranaam.

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:32:29 GMT

Oh well, PDF is already a highly compressed format, so compressing it wont help you much.

PDF´s are very fine for the purpose of sending them as attachments per mail.

And even if you have a really big PDF i highly doubt compressing will help.

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:35:02 GMT

Dear Pranaam,

Thanks for your response.

Dont you have any sample program with relation to my requirement.

I convert into pdf

send via email to

My issue is that when I use FM Compress the attachemnt goes trough but cannot open the file as it says file type error.

How to decompress so that users can read Adobe after its compressed.?

Thanks

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:51:25 GMT

Hi Florian,

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

Regards,

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

OttoGold — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:49:01 GMT

Hello,

in most cases you don´t have to compress PDF. Let me guess, your PDF is not a form (like Adobe form), but a spool exported to PDF and the resulting file is very big? If I am right, create a simple Adobe form to create a PDF file with the reasonable size for you.

Regards Otto

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:57:01 GMT

Hi Otto,

Thanks for your response.

Yes I am converting my spool into PDF and then send it by email.

Can you please guide me through with your solution? I am not familier with that.

Thanks.

Re: Compressing and decompressing a PDF file

OttoGold — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:03:24 GMT

1) you should go to ABAP Printing forum where this problem has been discussed many times (for example remove the coloring to reduce the file size etc.). Just in case you would insist on working your way.

2) You can create some printing "device" like smartform etc. to print your data for you and then convert it to PDF, the result should be smaller then option 1)

3) the best one: if you want to send a PDF somewhere (or archive it etc.) you should start with Adobe forms, for you purpose Adobe print forms will be suffiscient. You only need to install and configure the ADS component to generate forms from the template for you. If you want to see a brief ovewrview about how to create this thing, start reading somewhere like here (this is not the most simple example!!):

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c2567f2b-0b01-0010-b7b5-977cbf80665d

Regards Otto