More than 255 characters in a table text field

Dear experts,
i am facing a problem (in WD Alv too) that i can not display more than 255 characters in a single text field.
I want to display a table containing a description field without a limitation of its length. As soon as providing a (formatted) string longer than 255 characters of length, no interactive form is shown on screen.
Debugging a while, the following error message occurs;
ADS: com.adobe.ProcessingException: com.adobe.ProcessingException: XMLFM Exception - PDF render operation exception, reason code: 0 : InvalidXDPException: Xml parsing error: reference to invalid character number (error code 14) ...
Does anybody have similar problems to mine?
Did anyone resolve the issue to show more than 255 characters in a table in interactive form?
Regards,
Florian Royer
Edited by: Florian Royer on Feb 11, 2010 2:48 PM

CALL METHOD lr_service_manager->retrieve
        EXPORTING
          iv_bo_name       = 'cPro_Project' "lv_bo_name "cPro_Project
*      iv_bo_name      = cl_dpr_api_co=>sc_bo_cprojects "
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          it_keys         = lt_ltext_key
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          et_data         = lt_longtext_mast
          et_failed_keys = lt_ltext_key_fail.
      READ TABLE lt_longtext_mast INTO ls_longtext_mast INDEX 1.
      MOVE ls_longtext_mast-longtext TO ls_action_item-zz_description.
This is how i get the text with format (line feeds).
zz_description is type string.
My table is on a page, wrapped in a subform. and zz_description is type text field.
Yes, i maintained "allow multiple lines" and did not limit length somehow.
The problem arises in portal, pressing the preview button of a zform. providing a string <255 characters of length, everything works fine.
Edited by: Florian Royer on Feb 11, 2010 3:10 PM

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