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Use

For historical reasons, forms that were created based on obsolete integration technologies can exist. There are also special cases that are for SAP internal use only.

  • ACF-based forms

    Caution

    The integration of ACF-based PDF forms in Web Dynpro ABAP is deprecated. See also SAP Note 1249189 Information published on SAP site.

    We expressly recommend only implementing ZCI forms with XML interfaces.

    New Adobe standard objects are now only available for ZCI (Native) based forms.

    Recommendation

    For more information about switching from ACF-based forms to ZCI, see SAP Note 978037 Information published on SAP site.

  • Forms with ABAP Dictionary-based interfaces can only be used as print forms.

    You can find further information about forms with ABAP Dictionary-based interfaces in SAP Note 1252350 Information published on SAP site.

  • We do not recommend binding thepdfSource for interactive forms and it is not permitted for ZCI-based forms (PDF-only scenario).

More information: SAP Note 1260750 Information published on SAP site