Creating List Formats 

Use

The names of the R/3 standard formats for list printing indicate how many characters per line and how many lines per page. Examples: X_65_80 (print 65 lines 80 characters wide per page); X_65_120 (print 65 lines 120 characters wide per page).

All list formats use a non-proportional font (except for device types that use HPL2 or PRES drivers for list output). For line printers, all formats assume that a printer uses a 12-inch paper length. For page printers, all assume LETTER or DINA4 paper size.

Procedure

1. Choose Tools ® CCMS ® Spool ® Spool administration, Full administration and then Formats on the DeviceTypes tab page.

2. To create your new format, on the next screen choose Change and then Create or Create with reference.

Give the format a name starting with Y or Z (for customers the reserved namespace.) This avoids conflicts with standard R/3 formats. If you are modifying a list format, then follow R/3’s naming convention: Y or Z_<LL>_<CC> where <LL> is the number of lines to print on a page, and <CC> is the number of characters to print on a line.

3. Enter L in the field Type (Format for ABAP lists). Choose Enter.

4. Enter ANY as the page format if you do not want to specify the page format. Before Release 4.5A, with the "X formats" used by the spool system for printing ABAP lists the paper size and alignment are specified but the page format is not required.

From Release 4.5A, list printer drivers interpret the page format and alignment specifications. You adapt the list size to the paper tray information in the output device.

5. Enter the line and column number of the area to be printed.

6. Optional: Select List driver if your format is to be used for device types using one of the list printing drivers (copies of device types HPLJ4000, KYOFS170, POST2 and SWIN). Choose Enter.

7. Choose Edit ® List driver atts to determine the layout attributes. On the next screen you can determine the orientation of the output and define the margins.

Note that the page format you select also exists with the orientation (Landscape or Portrait) you set for the format. If this is not the case, the system displays an error message.

8. Save your entries.

Result

To implement the format, you need to define a device type format for the new format (for information about this, see Implementing Device Type Formats.)

 

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