The alphanumeric Form Painter is a tool for designing the form layout and maintaining the forms. You can always use this Form Painter version, regardless of the frontend operating system you are working with.

Forms are used for the page layout of SAPscript documents. To be able to format a text for output to the screen or printer, you must assign a form first.

There are two ways of formatting texts using forms:

• Use the standard text maintenance to enter and print the text. You can assign any form. You can also enter text via the form, for example, a letter header.

• Use an ABAP program to format the text according to an assigned form. The program can either dynamically print individual predefined text modules – text elements – or transfer entire texts to be printed using the form.

Observe these naming conventions for form names:

• The name must start with a letter.

• The name may contain only letters.

• The name can be up to 16 characters long.