Output of PDF to system disc drive

Hi - We currently have a smartform that sends a email with a PDF attachment - anyone know how I can get sap to write the attachment to disc instead of send it in an email? I set up a "printer" that prints to a file instead of a printer - the output is not a PDF file - I need the PDF written to a directory....
Thanks muchly! Janet

Yaeh Janet, You can very well name the file at run time.
After you configure PDF device type in SPAD, when you say print, it will automatically ask for File name and path. Hence you can name the file at run time also.
If you want to do in through code, you can do it as well.
I haven't worked on smart forms but I worked in SAPScripts in printworkbench and I had similar requirement.
In my case,
*I called a Function Module EFG_PRINT and got the data to be printed in a tables parameter.
*I passed this internal table to Function Module CONVERT_OTF (This FM converts OTF data to PDF) to convert it into PDF file.
*I gave a default name (Which can be changed at run time also) to the PDF and called Function Module GUI_DOWNLOAD to download this file to the disk (Location can be specified at run-time also)
Janet, just check in which table the data is present. if you got that, you can very well proceed with the above steps and achive the expected result.
Get back to me for any queries.
Best Regards + Greetings,
Sasi.

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9. Took me to a Adobe Download Assistant window with a message "Make the most of your trial " referring apparently to 11
     when what I want to put onto the Air is the 10 I bought last August. I did check the registration on Adobe's site of the purchase
     of 10 last August and it showed everything correctly, including "mul" which I took to mean I could put it on multiple laptops.
     Maybe !
10. I was aksed in that box to choose my level of familiarity with photo editing software and I chose the middle one.
11. I also noticed in the bottom third of that box a blue download bar which got "stuck" at about 2/3 done. The yellow triangle with
     an exclamation point inside was followed by this message : "Error downloading this product (Error 109). Check you network
     connection or destination disk. You can also uses the "Reset product download" button. My network connection was full bars
     the whole time.
     Given that there was an error message - that the download was not complete - that explains my surprise in # 8 above that
     "the download already exists........". That can't be given the error message I quoted in # 11.
12. There is/was no "Reset download button" to be seen so I cllcked on an 'x' by it and it closed the stalled download bar.
And, after all this voluminous [sorry] activity that's where I'm stuck.
No PSE 10 on the Air
Can't d/l a trial of 11, even if I wanted to.
Extremely frustrating.
Adboe's website does not appear to offer any contact with an Adobe person to solve this other than paying $39, which does not seem right.
Bob

HT4889 Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive?

Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive? Should I use Carbon Copy or does apple have a better untility to do this?
I can't get my current system drive (OSX 10.8.3) to start on the first try. I always have to shut down and restart again to finally see the Apple logo.
Have used disc utility to repair the disc and permissions several times and that works. The next time I boot up, it works fine and I get the apple logo, but then the second time I boot up, it's back to the blank screen again and it only boots after the second try. I have tried this repair three different times now always with the same result. Works right the first try (after the repair) then from the second time on it doesn't work. I just get the white screen until I reboot a second time.
Thinking I should change drives but what's the easist and best way to move everything over to the new drive so it will boot correctly with all my data on it. This is the system drive for a Pro Tools 10HD setup. MacPro 3,1 with 16 gigs ram and OSX10.8.3 on it.
Thanks for any help!

If you have a time machine back up of your current drive you can do this
Shut down your computer, install the new drive. While the computer is off plug in the external hard drive that you have your time machine back up on. Hold Option key while the computer turnes on, let go of the option key once you get a grey screen. Shortly after you'll see a list of bootable drives, select the one that has your time machine back up on it and boot into that drive.
From there go into disk utility, format your new drive too, osx extended journaled ( I think, double check that, its been awhile since ive had to do this), hit format
Exit disk utility and then you can use time machine to copy all your exisit data to the new hhd and then your pretty much done.
There is also a program called Carbon Cloner that will do esentially the same thing however I've never uesed it.

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