Converting a spool containing 'multiple copies' of a smartform to PDF

[former_member215424]

Hi Experts,

I have a requirement to convert a spool having one page but multiple copies inside it , to a PDF with all the copies.

Ex : A smartform converts a output to five copies , like original , duplicate, triplicate ,extra copy1 and extra copy2 .Page number is same for all the copies.

When I try to convert the output to PDF using PDF! or RSTXPDFT4 , the PDF file has only one page with Original copy. All the other copies are not converted or not appearing in PDF.

Need your assistance on the same.

P.S : Unable to get any suitable information anywhere, hence posting the query.

[Former Member]

Hi Shruti,

Please correct me if 'am wrong, you have a SmartForm output which has 5 pages in it (Whatever may be the Page nos) and you want to convert the same as PDF files (All the 5 pages).

You can use the SmartForm FM to convert it as OTF file and using the FM CONVERT_OTF_2_PDF, you can convert the OTF file to a PDF one.

Hope this will help you

Thanks & Regards

[former_member215424]

Hi Manu,

I have one page with 5 copies. I need to convert this to PDF. The PDF would contain 5 pages , one for each copy.

This FM converts only the first copy of a page to PDF with one page.

Regards,

Shruti

[Former Member]

Hi Shruti,

Are you trying to print the output from spool list?

Where you are saying there are 5 copies?

Confused....

Thanks & Regards

[former_member215424]

Hi Manu,

Yes , the spool has 1 page with 5 copies.

Something like below shown :

[raymond_giuseppi]

So the spool has only ONE page and FIVE copies (TSP01-RQCOPIES), the last one is only an attribute, and not taken in account by the converter tools.

Regards,

Raymond

[former_member215424]

Hi Raymond,

Yes,I have set output_options-tdcopies = 005 to print 5 copies of a smartform.

Each copy will have a texts ORIGINAL COPY, DUPLICATE COPY ... etc.

Regards,

Shruti

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can use the program RSTXPDFT4.

Regards,

Supratik

[former_member215424]

Hi,

Tried it , but doesn't work.

The PDF has only one page with the first copy i.e original copy.

Regards,

Shruti

[reachdebopriya]

Hi Shruti,

Please check this link http://scn.sap.com/thread/3258797

This might help you.

Regards,

Debopriya Ghosh

[former_member186143]

confusing , if you have 1 spool with 5 copies then those copies are identical.

if in the copies something has changed like original duiplicate triplicate etc than I guess it should be different spools unless you put the setting to combine spools to one spool ?

do you say that you have 1 spool which shows 1 page with 5 copies but when you look at the spool you can scroll through 5 pages where every page has a different word on it like original , duplicate ?

but if you have put that setting than the RSTXPDFT4 must work.

I rebuild RSTXPDFT4 it to make 1 pdf out of multiple spools

LOOP AT ta_zrstxpdft4_alv WHERE chk EQ 'X' AND rqdoctype = 'OTF'.
     spoolno = ta_zrstxpdft4_alv-rqident.
     lv_otf = 'X'.
     REFRESH gt_soli.

     CALL FUNCTION 'RSPO_RETURN_SPOOLJOB'
       EXPORTING
         rqident                    = spoolno
*   FIRST_LINE                 = 1
*   LAST_LINE                  =
*   DESIRED_TYPE               =
* IMPORTING
*   REAL_TYPE                  =
*   SP_LANG                    =
       TABLES
         buffer                     = gt_soli
         buffer_pdf                 = gt_buffer
* EXCEPTIONS
*   NO_SUCH_JOB                = 1
*   JOB_CONTAINS_NO_DATA       = 2
*   SELECTION_EMPTY            = 3
*   NO_PERMISSION              = 4
*   CAN_NOT_ACCESS             = 5
*   READ_ERROR                 = 6
*   TYPE_NO_MATCH              = 7
*   OTHERS                     = 8
               .
     IF sy-subrc <> 0.
       MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
               WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
     ELSE.
       LOOP AT gt_soli  INTO gs_soli.


         APPEND gs_soli TO gt_soli_total.
       ENDLOOP.
     ENDIF.
   ENDLOOP.

   IF lv_otf EQ 'X'.
     LOOP AT gt_soli_total INTO gs_soli_total.
       gs_otf = gs_soli_total.
       APPEND gs_otf TO gt_otf.
     ENDLOOP.


     CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_OTF_2_PDF'
      EXPORTING
        use_otf_mc_cmd               = 'X'
*   ARCHIVE_INDEX                =
      IMPORTING
         bin_filesize                 = lv_filesize
       TABLES
         otf                          = gt_otf
         doctab_archive               = gt_doctab
         lines                        = gt_tline
      EXCEPTIONS
        err_conv_not_possible        = 1
        err_otf_mc_noendmarker       = 2
        OTHERS                       = 3
               .
     IF sy-subrc <> 0.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
*         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
     ENDIF.

     GET PARAMETER ID 'ZZ_USERDIR' FIELD h_userdir.
     .

     CALL FUNCTION 'Z_SAPWORKDIR'
       IMPORTING
         e_sapworkdir = h_workdir.



     IF h_userdir <> ''.
       CONCATENATE h_userdir 'bestand.pdf' INTO p_file.
     ELSE.
       IF h_workdir <> ''.
         CONCATENATE h_workdir '\bestand.pdf' INTO p_file.
       ELSE.
         CONCATENATE 'c:\temp\' 'bestand.pdf' INTO p_file.
       ENDIF.
     ENDIF.

     download = 'X'.

     numbytes = lv_filesize.

     PERFORM download_w_ext(rstxpdft) TABLES gt_tline
                                      USING p_file
                                            '.pdf'
                                            'BIN'
                                            numbytes
                                            cancel.
     IF cancel = space.
       WRITE: / numbytes, 'Bytes heruntergeladen in Datei'(009), p_file.
     ENDIF.
     .

   ENDIF.

kind regards

arthur

[former_member215424]

Hi Arthur,

//if you have 1 spool with 5 copies then those copies are identical.

if in the copies something has changed like original duiplicate triplicate etc than I guess it should be different spools unless you put the setting to combine spools to one spool ?

do you say that you have 1 spool which shows 1 page with 5 copies but when you look at the spool you can scroll through 5 pages where every page has a different word on it like original , duplicate ?

Yes, your understanding is correct.

//but if you have put that setting than the RSTXPDFT4 must work.

It doesn't work.Because this program is reading OTF data as shown below :

// -> this marks the beginning of OTF file

-

- (commands and texts in the printout)

-

- ORIGINAL COPY

-

- DUPLICATE COPY

-

-TRIPLICATE COPY

-

- EXTRA COPY1

-

-EXTRA COPY2

----- etc with data in unreadable format

-

// -> marks the end of file.

as you can see all the texts are in a single OTF table, because of which there is one spool.

I will try the solution you have mentioned above. Thanks

Regards,

Shruti

[former_member215424]

Solved.

Changed the printer name to PDFCreator in the print pop up , thus able to download all the five copies as a single PDF file.

[former_member206524]

"PDFCreator" is a system or standard printer like LP01??  Please dont mark such answers as Correct......

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[matt]

PDFCreator is a fairly well known free utility for printing as PDF. If you have it set up as a local printer, it will solve the problem very well.