Rotating text with smartforms

I want to print text rotated 90 degrees. Does anyone know if this is possible (with standaard smartform commands).

The way to roatate text in smartforms is using the COMMAND node. The rotation of text takes place at the printer and cannot be viewed in the print preview.
Using the COMMAND node, Attribute to change the orientation to 90deg needs to be passed to the printer.
The Attributes are printer dependant.
e.g.
In the ZPL-II printer control language the attribute is S_LZPL_SETUP.
In this command node, enter the following under "spool control", "free attributes":
Attribute name: Attribute value:
S_LZPL_SETUP '^FWR'
For the particular printer you are using u would need to find the appropriate attibute and the value to set it to.
Neeraja.

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Rotate/rotating text in SmartForms

Need to rotate text 90 degrees in a SmartForm.
The printers are all PCL based.
New print-controls cannot be created.
In PCL, the following command sets rotation:
<ESC>&a#P
where # is the number of degrees
To rotate 90 degrees, the PCL command would be:
<ESC>&a90P
In SAPscript, I can use the print-control for <ESC>.
/: PRINT-CONTROL SESCP
= &a90P
Another method that works involves standard texts.
Define standard texts named ZPCLROTATE90 and ZPCLROTATE0.
They willl set the rotation to 90 and reset to 0 degrees.
/: PRINT-CONTROL SESCP
( &a90P
/: PRINT-CONTROL SESCP
( &a0P
The SAPscript uses the new standard text objects:
AS horizontal text
/: INCLUDE ZZPCLROTATE90 OBJECT TEXT ID ST
AS rotated text
/: INCLUDE ZZPCLROTATE0 OBJECT TEXT ID ST
AS horizontal again
This also works in SAPscript.
None of this seems to work in SmartForms. I thought the INCLUDE text would work the same in SmartForms. It does not.
Tried the first method shown; SmartForms converts the "=" or "(" paragraph symbol to "*". This separates the escape sequence and it becomes invalid.
Any ideas? They do not want to use SAPscript. Cannot create a Z print-control.
Thanks,
Norm

Hi,
   Try to follow the steps givenbelow in your SMARTFORM.
1. Create a template and keep the text alone inside that you wanted to rotate.
2. Above and Below your text, In the text element that you wanted to rotate give the Print control.
Ex PRINT CONTROL 'SF201'
     &variable text&
    PRINT CONTROL'SF202'
2. Create a command inside the window and enter the attribute name and the attribute value.
    Ex. Use Attribute name as S_LZPL_HR1
                 Attribute value as 'BC_CD39'
3 Create another command above the template and enter the value "SF200" in Include Printer control.
4.Create another command above the template and enter the value "SF202" in Include Printer control.
I followed the above procedure for rotation of texts, and it worked.
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Handling texts with SMARTFORMS and SE63

Hi all
I am having a strange situation I cannot understand: I am working on a form on two side:
1) changing aspects with smartforms
2) handling texts translations with se63
The problem is that now if I made some change on text in smartform, I cannot see on output. Say I put a text in the middle of the form with "Hello world!" in, I cannot see in its output. why? Is this because I am working also with se63? I tried to leave transaction se63 to avoid eventual conflict, but still ... if now I go in smartforms transaction and try to change the form I cannot see any changes and till yesterday I did not have this kind of problem.
Any idea ?
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The problem was that modifying form modifies were not visible .. I don't know if was because I was using also se63 on same form ... Now I solved and all is turned normal and change are visible: I closed and restart everything handling in different moment se63 and smartforms .. very strange ...
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Smartforms: new barcodetechnology - additional (rotated) Text

Dear community,
I've a small problem while designing a new smartform form. I want to print a code 128 and I already created it with SE73 as a "system barcode" and I also chose the "new barcode technology" and as alignment "rotated".
In my form I defined the data for the barcode and formated them with the barcode data (deined in a smartstyle). When printing the form I get the barcode as defined.
But here comes my problem: I just get the barcode without any text. Is it possible to print a rotated text among the barcode? Is it a configuration in the barcode definition, or have I got to set some printcontrols?
Please help me to solve this problem!
Many thanks in anticipition...
Christian

Please help me! is there nobody with an idea?
Hope for answers...
Christian

Problem printing horizontal text in smartform with zebra Z6M label printer

hello,
The situation is this:
There is a Z smartform wich prints a label to a zebra Z6M label printer with the text and barcodes vertically.
The form have a command in the main windows with the parameter: S_LZPL_SETUP '^FWR'
This label works fine, but the client want to change the form, they have told me to create a new smartform and print the info horizontally, using the same printer.
The tests i have done are the following:
create a smartform from ground and write a template text and a barcode with a new font of system barcodes. the bardoce is shown ok(it is shown horizontally), the problem is that the template text is shown vertically, as in the original smartform.
then i tried on another zebra ZM600 label printer, similar model, but not the same, and the smartform printed was ok (text and barcodes shown horizontally). So i think is a configuration setting problem, but i dont know where to search.
i have checked the label printer parameters in SPAD, but didnt find anything souspicios.
have you any idea?
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See these if they be of any help.....
BARCODE:
goto smartform styles-> create a style-->
create a character format.
under standard settings give the bar code name
use this style in ur smartform. select the data field which u want to barcode print and assign the character format
Similarly
SAPSCRIPT
open the form and click the character format button and
repeat the step as above....
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/68/4a0d5b74110d44b1b88d9b6aa1315b/frameset.htm
Go to Character formate in your form.
create a new char formate with enable BAR code AND
you can give its type too.
To Create a Bar code prefix:
1) Go to T-code - SPAD -> Full Administration -> Click on Device Type -> Double click the device for which you wish to create the print control -> Click on Print Control tab ->Click on change mode -> Click the plus sign to add a row or prefix say SBP99 (Prefix must start with SBP) -> save you changes , it will ask for request -> create request and save
2) Now when you go to SE73 if you enter SBP00 for you device it will add the newly created Prefix
Create a character format C1.Assign a barcode to the character format.Check the check box for the barcode.
The place where you are using the field value use like this
<C1> &itab-field& </C1>.
You will get the field value in the form of barcode.
Which barcode printer are you using ? Can you download this file and see.
http://www.servopack.de/Files/HB/ZPLcommands.pdf.
It will give an idea about barcode commands.
Check this link:
http://www.sap-img.com/abap/questions-about-bar-code-printing-in-sap.htm
Check this link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d9/4a94c851ea11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm
Hope this link ll be useful..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/66/1b45c136639542a83663072a74a21c/content.htm
go through these links and cose u r previous threads,
http://www.sap-img.com/abap/questions-about-bar-code-printing-in-sap.htm
smartform - barcode
http://www.erpgenie.com/abap/smartforms.htm
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-basis/print-barcode-with-smartform-634396
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-dev/printing-barcode-733550
Detailed information about SAP Barcodes
A barcode solution consists of the following:
a barcode printer
a barcode reader
a mobile data collection application/program
A barcode label is a special symbology to represent human readable information such as a material number or batch number
in machine readable format.
There are different symbologies for different applications and different industries. Luckily, you need not worry to much about that as the logistics supply chain has mostly standardized on 3 of 9 and 128 barcode symbologies - which all barcode readers support and which SAP support natively in it's printing protocols.
You can print barcodes from SAP by modifying an existing output form.
Behind every output form is a print program that collects all the data and then pass it to the form. The form contains the layout as well as the font, line and paragraph formats. These forms are designed using SAPScript (a very easy but frustratingly simplistic form format language) or SmartForms that is more of a graphical form design tool.
Barcodes are nothing more than a font definition and is part of the style sheet associated with a particular SAPScript form. The most important aspect is to place a parameter in the line of the form that points to the data element that you want to represent as barcode on the form, i.e. material number. Next you need to set the font for that parameter value to one of the supported barcode symbologies.
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) Go to T-code - SPAD -> Full Administration -> Click on Device Type -> Double click the device for which you wish to create the print control -> Click on Print Control tab ->Click on change mode -> Click the plus sign to add a row or prefix say SBP99 (Prefix must start with SBP) -> save you changes , it will ask for request -> create request and save
2) Now when you go to SE73 if you enter SBP00 for you device it will add the newly created Prefix
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The place where you are using the field value use like this
<C1> &itab-field& </C1>.
You will get the field value in the form of barcode.
Check this thread for detail information.
How to print Barcode in te SAP SCRIPTS?

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Hello all,
I have a requirement that, there is a very long standard text stored in a notification of an order in SAP ISU system. The text contains multiple paragraphs with indentations. I want to print this text directly into the smartform WITH SAME INDENTATION AND PARAGRAPH FORMATTING.
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Hey ,
Well thanks for that but my replies got posted 2-3 times unknowingly, could'nt help it.
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EXPORTING
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TABLES
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IF i use a variable in smartform and pass the entire text after using READ_TEXT , it does not format the text and it just prints only 255 characters even if i define it of type STRING .
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Thanks
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Rotating text label with complex fonts (arabic)

i got the next problem:
rotating dynamically created TextField with any angle (using
embedded fonts of course). if i use standard fonts, latin sybmols -
everything works excellent. but if i use arabic fonts - text labels
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show. but when using in rotating mode with embedded fonts those
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works fine in usual way until the text label starts being
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> I'm trying to rotate a dynamic text field that is using
> system font.
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The only idea possible is to omit one of those
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i
o
n
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