Rotating text in SAP Script

[Former Member]

Hi,

  I want to print text vertically and horizontally in script.Not like A

                                                                                                   B

                                                                                                   C.

It should be totally rotated and printed vertically.I tried Print control commands.But not getting my desired result.Any suggestions please....It's actually a barcode label with some text vertically. PFB screenshot of a part of it.

Regards

Lavanya

[learnsap]

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[peng_wen]

First of all you should check whether your printer is able to

change the print direction in the middle of the page and

which printer escape sequences are necessary to do that.

E.g. if you use a PCL device type like HPLJ5, the sequences are:

Turn print direction by 90ｰ: <ESC>&a90P

Turn print direction back:   <ESC>&a0P

So you may copy your device type into the customer name space and

add two print controls, which contain these printer escape

sequences. After that you can first call the first print control

in your Smartforms via a command node, which turns the print

direction by 90ｰ, then you can output the text and finally

you can call the second print control via another command node.

In sapscript: you can use the PRINT-CONTROL command.

For more information on how to use PRINT-CONTROL, please see the note

66478.

[Former Member]

It is possible to rotate a window using print control command .

In PCL, the following command sets rotation:

<ESC>&a#P         where # is the number of degrees

To rotate 90 degrees, <ESC>&a90P

In SAPscript, use the print-control command

/:  PRINT-CONTROL SESCP =  &a90P

If you want to rotate just the barcode, you can explicity do that in SE73. Select the barcode you need, and check the option - rotate by 90 degrees.

Also, check this thread.

[Florian]

If the printer can do that, you can develop it in a way.

If nothing above help you out, then create a new type in spad and add your pcl command into the sequences.

I do not explain it right here, because there are a lot of good documents out there.

For example this one:

Another idea out of my mind is, that you check the printer itself and set the option, so all output is rotated directly, that would be a very small solution without any developing in the form, if possible.

So just use the Searchoption

And this would be the better space for this question:

Regards

Florian