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
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
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
SAPscript Users
SAPscript users may also continue to use Zebra’s
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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