difference between OTF and RDI formats.

[Former Member]

What is the difference between OTF and RDI formats

[Former Member]

Hi Srinivas,

Refer these links

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/ru/d6/0db5b2494511d182b70000e829fbfe/content.htm

R/3 Spool Data Formats

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/en/d9/4a98f351ea11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm

Regards,

Sravanthi

[raymond_giuseppi]

Look at [Spool Request Management and Storage|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/en/d9/4a98f351ea11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm]

R/3 Spool Data Formats
Spooled documents from the SAPscript text processing and forms printing system are held either in partially-formatted form or in the uninterpreted RDI (raw data interface) format. In normal (non-RDI) documents, the stored data is already printer-specific, which means that output requests cannot readily be shifted among printers that have incompatible R/3 device types.
The storage format for non-RDI SAPscript documents is R/3 OTF (Output Text Format). The printer-specificity of OTF data lies in the absolute character positioning in the data. Spacing between characters in a non-proportional font, line length, and page length are all specified in OTF. All are dependent upon the font metrics of the typefaces offered by a particular type of printer and the format specified for the spool request. SAPscript stores font metrics data for typefaces so that it can accurately fill data.

Regards