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Hi,
I have created a print form using Adobe LiveCycle designer 7.1 on SAP ECC 6.0 version. The requirement is to mask first 5 characters of a text field (SSN) on the form while displaying but when printed it should print whole SSN.I have used Javascript option to run at client. In the initialize event, I am changing the value(rawValue) to the masked one(for eg. XXXXX9999).In the prePrint event I am passing the correct value of SSN and again in the postPrint event I am changing the value of SSN to the masked one.The form type is set to Print form and Dynamic PDF.I have created a custom program in SAP to creae PDF and download on to the local machine.
Now the issue is...
1)When I opened the downloaded PDF and pressed the print button, the whole document goes blank. This is happening in Adobe Reader 7.0.9.
2) It works as expected with Adobe Reader 8.1.1 but when I close the document it gives error message like - instruction 0XX.. could not be written to memory.
I have also tried to hide to set the presence attribute to "visible" in prePrint event and to "invisible" in postPrint event instead of changing the value of the field but same issue is happening with Adobe Reader version 7.0.9.
I need this to work on any version(7.x or 8.x) of Adobe Reader. Please help.
Thanks,
Raghu

Dear,
print preview and physical printout are two different things.
PrintPreview:
The data stream will be sent to the frontend and rendered with windows-fonts etc (for backend prints a simulation).
Printout:
Frontend: You need a printer, that maps the character, you have to use SAPWIN or SAPWINCF when using cascading fonts. The rendering will be done in the windows spooler.
Backend: Your printer needs also a mapping (look like something with UTF8). Also the printer needs the fonts installed because the rendering will be done in the printer!
If you use the pdf-printer in SAP, you need to upload all necessary fonts (TTF) for the pdf-composer. Also you need a unicode pdf printer for that.
Regards,
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