HP SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print manual Upgrading Smart Forms for Bar Coding, Support Packs

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Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms

Upgrading Smart Forms for Bar Coding

Support Packs

SAP’s Smart Forms design tool now supports native bar code design and industrial bar code printing. These features can be enjoyed by users of mySAP™ Business Suite 4.6c onwards. Support Packs are available direct from SAP AG for enabling this technology. For more information on this upgrade, please refer to SAPnet notes 750002 and 750772.

Smart Forms Bar Code Rendering Library (BRL)

The Bar Code Rendering Library allows SAP to render (draw) bar codes for print preview and output purposes. SAP AG has licensed this BRL from Zebra, which allows Smart Forms to generate bar code output, as bitmap graphics, on PDF documents and PCL®-, PostScript®-, and Prescribe-compatible printers. SAPWin is also supported via SAPlpd although not recommended for mission-critical printing.

Note: Bar codes are downloaded as bitmap graphics to all of the above “page” printers. The only true bar code “label” printer language supported in Smart Forms is the Zebra Programming Language (ZPL II). Bar codes are NOT downloaded to ZPL II printers as graphics, they are sent as ZPL II commands—providing greater performance and bar code validation!

Smart Forms Industrial Bar Code Printer Support (ZPL II)

SAP AG has, for the first time, added “true” support for native bar code printers in mySAP Business Suite. This printer support, along with the BRL, now allows SAP users to easily implement industrial mission-critical bar code label printing without the additional cost of middleware. Bar coding support is added in the form of the Zebra Programming language (ZPL II). Refer to www.zebra.com for more information on bar code label printers.

SAPscript Users

SAPscript users may also continue to use Zebra’s BAR-ONE®for mySAP™ Business Suite. Refer to www.zebra.com/sap for more information.

SAP GUI Print Preview

SAP NetWeaver™ 04 is required for SAP GUI WYSIWYG Print Preview. All other versions will simply represent bar codes with a series of thin vertical lines.

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Contents SAP Smart Forms Table of Contents Support Packs Upgrading Smart Forms for Bar CodingUnicode UTF-8 Andale Monospaced Scaleable Fonts Unicode UTF-8 Swiss Scaleable FontsInstallation of mySAP Business Suite Zebra Device Types Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Allocate a Development Class Select the local driver Change icon Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Press the TAB Local NT or AS/400 print manager Local Unix lpd spooler Print QueueSAP LPD Or S PC with Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 requires SAPlpd runningSAP AG 2004. All rights reserved SAP AG 2004. All rights reserved Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Designing a Simple Smart Form Disable PC EditorCreate the Bar Codes You Need Smart Styles-Planning for Smart FormsSelect C39 as the Symbology and press OK Press Yes to Save Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms We are now going to add a bar code to our Smart Style We now need to add our Text Styles to the Smart Style Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms We now need to make a default Paragraph for our Header Data Select LJ for the Standard Paragraph We now need to save our Smart Style Laying out the Smart Form Map to Smart Style Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Add Text and Bar Code Fields Enter Date Press the insert field icon Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Add Lines and Boxes Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Add Logos/Graphics Press the browse graphic icon Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms Saving and Activating the Smart Form Label Size / Page Size Tips and Tricks for Smart Forms and Zebra PrintersLines and Boxes Field Positioning-X, Y CoordinatesText Objects Download a TTF Font to Zebra Flash Memory Font Licensing TTF / Disclaimer Modify the Zebra SAP Device TypeLogos/Graphics Uploading Graphics into Smart FormsPermanently Printer Resident Bar Codes Flash Printer Settings Below is a list of supported command Nodes Printer Bar Codes Bar CodesSystem Bar Codes Unsupported Bar Codes / New Symbologies Resources