For technical reasons, such as for troubleshooting, it may be necessary to display the print data in either raw form (ABAP list format or OTF format for SAPscript texts) or in hexadecimal format.

To set the display, choose Goto ® Display requests ® Settings from the spool request list screen.

In order to prevent a reduction in performance, the system only displays the first ten pages of a request by default. To set the display area, choose Goto ® Display requests ® Settings. For a very large document, you can change the settings to only display the last few pages. A maximum of 9,999,999 pages can be displayed. Note however, that a display area that is too large could lead to memory overflow.

You can also email or fax the contents of a spool request. To do this, choose Spool request ® Forward ® Send using SAPoffice.

You can also export the contents of a spool request as follows:

• Spool request ® Forward ® Export as text: The entire text is stored in ASCII format in your SAP GUI work directory. The name of this file is composed according to the pattern, <SAP System name><spool number>.txt. Example: Look for the file ABC0000004327.txt in your SAP GUI work directory.
• Select an entry and display the contents. For SAPscript texts, choose Spool request ® Forward ® Save to local file Then save the file in one of the possible formats. This procedure only saves the display portion of the document, however.