Checking Available PDF/A Formats

Before you select a PDF/A format, you must check whether the installed ADS version supports the respective functionality.

Context

To check the availability of the PDF/A output function in your ADS version, you can use the ABAP class CL_FP_FEATURE_TEST.

You need two different attributes to do this, regardless of the PDF/A format you want to check:

  • gc_render_pdfa: Only checks the availability of the format PDF/A-1 (supported as of ADS Release SAP NetWeaver AS for Java 7.20).
  • gc_pdfa_ext: Checks the availability of the formats PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b (supported as of ADS Release SAP NetWeaver AS for Java 7.5 SP05).

For more information, see the SDN blog https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/14106Information published on SAP site.

Procedure

  1. Call the test for the format PDF/A-1 before the function module FP_JOB_OPEN is called, as follows: 

    TRY.
      IF cl_fp_feature_test=>is_available(
           iv_feature = cl_fp_feature_test=>gc_render_pdfa1 )
           = abap_true.
           *   PDF/A-1 can be generated
      ELSE.
           *   PDF/A-1 can not be generated
      ENDIF.
      CATCH cx_fp_runtime.
           * Add error handling
    ENDTRY.

    or:

  2. Use the following test for PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, and PDF/A-3b: 

    TRY.
      IF cl_fp_feature_test=>is_available(
           iv_connection = p_conn
           iv_feature    = cl_fp_feature_test=>gc_pdfa_ext )
           = abap_true.
           *   PDF/A-1b, 2b, 3b can be generated
	 ELSE.
           *   PDF/A-1b, 2b, 3b can not be generated
	 ENDIF.
	 CATCH cx_fp_runtime.
	      * Add error handling
    ENDTRY.

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