Create review copy of an interactive form

Question

Hi,
I am looking for a method to create a review copy (i.e. non-interactive copy) of an interactive PDF form. Fortunately, interface IF_FP_PDF_OBJECT provides the methods SET_TASK_CREATE_REVIEWCOPY and GET_REVIEW_COPY to complete this task, but unfortunately I always get the error
201.201: ADS: com.adobe.ProcessingException: Rule: usageRightsRestriction named: RestrictedNodes operation: GetReviewCopy
when performing tests with demo report FP_PDF_TEST_05.
The SAP library on the one hand says that a review copy of an interactive form that is assigned usage rights cannot be created (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/46/1ef46e24ba5a67e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm). On the other hand the library says that you have to assign usage rights to make a PDF ready for input at all (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/46/250bf80c2c4252e10000000a1553f6/content.htm).
My question is now: How can I get a review copy of an interactive form? How do I have to call the function module that is generated when I activate my form template to get an interactive PDF from which I can create a review copy (I set the parameters FILLABLE and DYNAMIC)? Is there an alternative way to create a review copy?
I thank you for your assistance.
Regards,
Martin

Answer 1

I also tried to go this way: Read the data from the filled-in interactive form and use it as input for generating a new non-interactive form.
It worked fine for all types of fields but not for rich text fields. The problem with rich text is that when using classes CL_XML_DOCUMENT_BASE and IF_IXML_NODE to parse XML data returned by an interactive form I get the rich text without markups. So, the formatting is lost, even line feeds.
Even if I would extract the rich text directly from the XML raw string I still had problems to bring it back to the new (non-interactive) form via ABAP function module since rich text markups are taken as flat text and not as formatting instructions. The rich text "<p>line1<p/><p>line2<p/>", for instance, is printed in the form as
   <p>line1<p/><p>line2<p/>
and not as
   line1
   line2
So, I was looking for a way to pass my XML data stream directly to the ADS without using the generated ABAP function module. The review copy function is exactly what I need but unfortunatly seems not to work.