How to get rid of ‘#’ in forms
When ever you try to print forms in SAP for any other language other than English, you usually end up with some of the characters printed as ‘#’ instead of the actual character for that particular language. The error is usually caused because of Double byte characters used in the form.
To get rid of ‘#’ symbols you need to use the correct character or paragraph format, follow these steps:
- Check if the font specified in the form is supported by the printer. In this case the form output is displayed correctly in the spool but when you try to print the form, it shows junk characters of ‘#’. so first ensure that the printer supports the font. To see the actual font used by SAP system during printing goto SP01 – > give the spool number and execute. Select the spool and now goto -> Display requests-> settings-> change the display mode to ‘RAW’ and come back to the spool output screen. Now click display contents and then you can figure out the correct font used by SAP.
- Device type not supporting the font. In this case ask the basis team to install the extra fonts on the spool server.
- Enable multibyte setting. Press ALT + F12 -> Options -> I18N -> Check Activate Multibyte functions to support
- Ensure you have extra required fonts installed in windows
- Refer OSS Note 776507 to look at the fonts supported by the country.
What is SAP Script? What are the componets in SAP Script?
SAPscript is the SAP Systems own text-processing system which is used to generate documents containing logos, tables and other objects and which look like a pre-printed documents. SAPscript is tightly integrated and used for many text-processing tasks. SAP Standard Styles and Layout Sets are always held in Client 000.
Layout Sets are used for the Page Layout of SAPscript documents. A layout set has the following elements:
- Header Data: Data related to development (created by, development class, etc.) and the layout set information (which elements are used) are both stored in the header data. A start page must be entered here.
- Paragraph Formats: Paragraph formats are required in layout sets. However, they are also used for word processing in layout sets, for example, to format text elements.
- Character Formats: You can also use character formats to format texts or paragraphs. Unlike paragraph formats, however, they are used to format text within a paragraph.
- Windows: Windows are names and window types, which are not physically positioned until they are allocated to pages and units of measurement are specified.
- Pages: Pages are defined to provide the system with a start and end point in text formatting.
- Page Windows: Page windows are the combination of windows and pages, where the dimensions of a window and its position on a page are specified.
What is SAP Script? What are the componets in SAP Script?
SAPscript is the SAP Systems own text-processing system which is used to generate documents containing logos, tables and other objects and which look like a pre-printed documents. SAPscript is tightly integrated and used for many text-processing tasks. SAP Standard Styles and Layout Sets are always held in Client 000.
Layout Sets are used for the Page Layout of SAPscript documents. A layout set has the following elements:
- Header Data: Data related to development (created by, development class, etc.) and the layout set information (which elements are used) are both stored in the header data. A start page must be entered here.
- Paragraph Formats: Paragraph formats are required in layout sets. However, they are also used for word processing in layout sets, for example, to format text elements.
- Character Formats: You can also use character formats to format texts or paragraphs. Unlike paragraph formats, however, they are used to format text within a paragraph.
- Windows: Windows are names and window types, which are not physically positioned until they are allocated to pages and units of measurement are specified.
- Pages: Pages are defined to provide the system with a start and end point in text formatting.
- Page Windows: Page windows are the combination of windows and pages, where the dimensions of a window and its position on a page are specified.