Question Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable in Questions about SAP Websites

OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Former Member — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:21:57 GMT

When searching for OSS notes, there is a "View as pdf" option that used to be great. I would download 20 related notes into one pdf and search for the keyword I was interested in, which was much easier than opening 20 notes one by one. Now the pdfs look blurry and ctrl-f to find text does not work. Did SAP intentionally change this feature to use OCR format? Any alternatives to clicking the notes one by one?

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

AntonFarenyk — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:11:34 GMT

Big step back for me as well.

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:42:19 GMT

How do you download multiple notes into one PDF?

I've never used it for more than one note at a time. Just tried a random note 2092366 and had no issues whatsoever. PDF is clear and search works just fine.

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

AntonFarenyk — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:50:33 GMT

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Mon, 02 May 2016 19:00:51 GMT

This is a very old portal, even the version that came after that is now replaced by Launchpad. I doubt this is supported anymore, so the best course of action would probably be to submit feedback in the new Launchpad that you'd like to see mass download to PDF there.

Wondering if might have any comments?

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Former Member — Mon, 02 May 2016 19:11:01 GMT

Hi Jordan,

I'm not aware of any bulk download-to-pdf functionality in the search tool for Launchpad, but it seems like you might find a better set of search results by using more specific parameters (e.g. searching for the keywords in the original search, rather than searching, downloading, then re-searching within your results). It's possible that I am misunderstanding your need.

I will ask the LP team if they would like to weigh in on this thread, but yes, as Jelena said, I would recommend submitting a feedback form in the Launchpad itself if you would like to see this as a future enhancement.

Best Regards,

Jamie

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Former Member — Mon, 02 May 2016 19:13:32 GMT

You can also tailor down your search results using the built in features at the top of your results list:

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

AntonFarenyk — Mon, 02 May 2016 20:57:29 GMT


Jelena Perfiljeva wrote:

This is a very old portal, even the version that came after that is now replaced by Launchpad.

Agree with old, but it's the only way to search notes restricted exactly by "my version of SAP system" which takes into account i.e. my EHP level

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

AntonFarenyk — Mon, 02 May 2016 21:10:09 GMT

Simple (non-bulk) PDF download from new launchpad does not work very well.

Try i.e. KBA 1744839 and it's simply not WYSIWYG because images are missing. In other cases it could truncate the note. So now my way around is to use Microsoft print to PDF.

Sorry I didn't mean to argue

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:17:47 GMT

Yes, images are not in the PDF. I put it in the feedback on Launchpad.

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Thu, 05 May 2016 17:42:19 GMT

I also noticed today that in the Launchpad the PDF view is missing information - it only includes symptom and solution but not the relevant component versions or references. It was pretty much 1:1 before. Entered feedback for that as well.

Re: OSS "View as pdf" blurry and not searchable

Former Member — Thu, 05 May 2016 17:45:21 GMT

Thanks Jelena!