Frontend Printing (SAP GUI for
HTML)
Use
You want to print at your frontend using SAP GUI for HTML.
With this print method, the print data is sent to the browser and displayed. You can then print the document at your frontend.
Prerequisites
· The frontend printer must be defined in the SAP System using transaction SPAD. To do this, you must create a device definition with the following details:
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¡ Access method F
¡ Device type PDF1 or language-specific version
As the print data is output using a PDF Viewer when printing using SAP GUI for HTML, the device type must be PDF1.
¡ The host printer name is irrelevant in this situation.
· You require the following system components:
¡ PDF Viewer as a browser plug-in (as of Adobe 4.0)
¡ Netscape (as of 6.0) or Internet Explorer (as of 4.0)
· You also require the following authorization to access operating system files, in addition to the general authorizations for frontend printing:
¡ Object: S-DATASET
¡ Program field: SAPLLPRF
¡ Activity field: 06, 33, and 34
· When printing using the SAP GUI for HTML, the print requests are temporarily stored in the global file system.
You may have to increase the storage space for the global file system, depending on the quantity and size of the output requests.
Activities
The process of frontend printing using the SAP GUI for HTML is as follows:
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1. The user is logged on to an SAP system with the SAP GUI for HTML and creates an output request on the frontend printer with access method F and the device type PDF1.
2. The print data is stored in the global file system until the spool request is deleted.
3. If the print data is converted into PDF format and immediate printing was selected, the browser starts the PDF viewer.
A new PDF viewer is started for each document. The user can print the document from this PDF viewer.
4. If you want to send the print request to the printer later, you can print it from the Output Controller of the SAP GUI for HTML at a later time. To do this, proceed as follows:
a. Open the Output Controller in transaction SP01 and choose Execute.
b. In the list of spool requests, choose Utilities ® List of SAP GUI for HTML Print Requests.
A list of spool requests that were created in the SAP GUI for HTML appears.
c. Choose the relevant spool request in the list and choose PDF Display.
The print data is then displayed in the PDF Viewer, from which you can print the data using the print function.
This function is only available if it is used from the SAP GUI for HTML. In the SAP GUI for Windows, the option is grayed out and cannot be called.
See also:
· SAP Note 323736
· Frontend Printing on Local Printers
· Defining an Output Device for Frontend Printing (SAP GUI for HTML)
