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For commonly used paper sizes such as A4, Letter, etc., Page formats are predefined in SAP.
If you want to print on non-standard (e.g. Double Letter) or custom-size paper, you need to define a corresponding Page format first, one for
each orientation (Portrait, Landscape). The name has to begin with a "Z".
1. Run transaction SPAD (Spool administration).
Press the button "Full administration".
Go to the tab "Device types".
Press the button "Page formats".
(Alternatively, navigate to Menu : "Page formats" : "Create".)
2. Enter "Change" mode.
3. Specify:
- Name
- Orientation
- Width & height, in {MM,CM,IN,PT}
4. Press "Save".
5.1.13 How to enable a non-standard font
If you wish to use a particular non-standard font (available as soft or hard font on your device), you have to follow these steps:
1. Create a font family using transaction SE73
2. Create a system font using transaction SE73
3. Create a printer font using transaction SE73
Add the device font description into the device type
In the device type the Print Control indicated in step 3 must be defined, and it must contain a command sequence to activate the desired device
font.
Please see SAP note # 0012462.
Note:
For printing fonts in arbitrary sizes, please refer to standard SAP documentation, or contact Technical support.
5.1.14 How to correct an image shift
Printers of different brands or models or even of the same family often may have slight differences in the printable region of the page.
If the same document has to be printed on all of these, the output may look different: The image may appear shifted, or items near the border
may even vanish. This problem can only occur for SAPscript- or SmartForms-based documents, since the ABAP formats are designed to fit
more lines and columns than are guaranteed.
Problems with the printable area when changing from one printer to another are a commonly known issue with SAP printing.
One can work around this in a limited way through the Image shift mechanism (see below), which one can define individually for each Output
device.
However, if the document was already designed too tight near the edges of the paper, there are only 2 possibilities left:
• adjust the printable region on our devices / printer controller (if possible)
• adjust all SAPscript Forms of all affected SAPscript documents (this may be a lot of work)