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

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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