Alphanumeric Form Painter

Use

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.

If your frontend is equipped with the 32bit operating system Windows95 or WindowsNT 4.0, you can choose between the alphanumeric and the graphical Form Painter. On the Form: Request screen, choose Settings -> Form Painter.

Forms

You use forms to layout the pages of SAPscript documents. To process a document for printing, both on the screen or printer, you must assign a form first.

Note

If a text has no form, the system automatically assigns the form SYSTEM, which contains the minimum of definitions required to process the text for output.

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 characters *, & / as well as blanks are not valid.
The name can be up to 16 characters long.

Overviews and Operations

Form Components

Processing in Overview

Finding a Form

Test-Printing a Form

Converting the Page Size of a Form

Form Components

Defining Header Data

Defining Paragraph Formats

Defining Character Formats

Defining Windows

Defining Pages

Defining Page Windows

Using Text Elements in Page Windows

Defining Main Windows in Page Windows

Documentation