Handling Output in the print program

All,
I have the following issue.
We are having a single custom smartform for printing purchase order used for printing for 32 company codes, Because of this smartform has been tide up with lot of "Conditions"
Now we wanted to split this smartform based on regions ie Americana, APEC, Europe, ME & Africa.
But the problem is this Smartform has been currently called using a single output type.
So if we created 4 copy of this Smartform (1 for each region), we don't wanted to create 4 new output types for calling these forms according to the region.
So we are thinking creating a custom table contains the region code and smartform name. so in the print program we are going to read this table and get the smartform and go for priting.
Is anybody come across this kind of problem. Is any other better options available to handle this?
PS: I feel this is not smartform issue. that's why i created under general abap. Moderators are agree with this
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I faced this situation before and we used <generic_sf_name>_US , <generic_sf_name>_EU etc... and handled it in the print program
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at subroutines
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Variable windows (VAR)
Main windows (MAIN)
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Edited by: Hareesh Menon on Feb 11, 2009 9:22 AM
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