Form Painter (SAP Library - SAP Smart Forms (BC-SRV-SCR))

Form Painter

Use

You use the Form Painter to design the layout of the pages of a Smart Form. You can include windows and graphics on a page, determine their positions and choose the window sizes.

The Form Painter offers the following functions:

Design area with ruler, cursor with help lines, and grid and main grid

Display of the cursor position in the ruler, which you can suppress and set

Two-level grid with engage function, which you can customize at will

When creating, changing, and moving a window, the window size appears in the ruler.

Detachable toolbar containing the most important functions

Autoscrolling when moving windows; placing windows into the background

Zoom factors you can set to any value and autozooming of the design area to the window size

Sensitive context menu

Placing a scanned graphic into the background of the design area (see also Printing Graphics)

Activities

To display or suppress the Form Painter choose Form Painter on/off.

To make detailed settings in the Form Painter (for example, step size of the grid, zoom factors, and so on), choose Settings in its toolbar.