Adobe form copies

Question

Hi experts,
  I'm facing a problem.
On dynpro abap  screen we input the copies no. on screen, and press "print" button to preint PDF forms ( not Interactive form, just static PDF form ).  And every copyies has different title.
Is it possible ? Or is it better way to  write smarforms ?
Tks.
Eric

Answer 1

SMARTFORMS has a special COPIES window which you can use to print specific things for a specific copy count in your print job.  I have not found a similar approach for Adobe.
We have temporarily solved this problem by calling the form X number of times and passing two additional importing parameters which tell the interface which copy we're currently printing and our total number of copies.  In this way we can simulate a COPYCOUNT in Adobe.  The problem is that this takes a little more system time as we need to call the form for each time we want a different copy.
If you're interested, this is the approach we take:
DO l_copies TIMES.
  l_doc_count = sy-index.
  TRY.
      CALL FUNCTION l_fm_name
        EXPORTING
          /1bcdwb/docparams  = l_docparams
          i_copies           = l_copies
          i_doc_count        = l_doc_count
        IMPORTING
          /1bcdwb/formoutput = l_formoutput
        EXCEPTIONS
          usage_error        = 1
          system_error       = 2
          internal_error     = 3.
    CATCH cx_root INTO l_fmerr.
      l_errmsg = l_fmerr->get_text( ).
  ENDTRY.
ENDDO.
l_copies is type i and is set to the number of copies we want.  l_doc_count is set to the loop iteration and passed into the Adobe form.  Inside the Adobe form we can then evalute the count and branch accordingly.  The TRY...CATCH is just to ensure that we trap for any errors and handle aborts gracefully.  l_fmerr is TYPE REF TO cx_root and l_errmsg is type STRING (this allows us to display the appropriate error message if the form call aborts).