Smartforms-Junk Characters being printed with text

Hi,
I have two issues regarding smartforms
1.Whenever I add any text in the smartform in the text editor ,for example, "test",
the print preview shows as above, BUT in the printout it comes as #test#.
2.Similarly, when I use READ_TEXT function module to get any text from the transaction, for example, AT&T, the output in the preview and printout comes as (AT<(>&<)>T.
Can any one tell me how to avoid this junk data .
Regards
Rasheed

hi
good
Did you follow this process if not check them again,
1- Execute the program and see how the data flowing from driver program to the smartform.
2-Check the printer setup for you particular page
3-Check the alignment of the data that you r going to print.
thanks
mrutyun^

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