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Arial Unicode Font Installation

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Former Member

‎03-10-2009 10:09 PM

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I need some advice/instructions please

We have created new SAP smart forms for Poland implementation; these new fonts show accented characters correctly during print preview but print these characters as #.

Arial Unicode will resolve this matter I need some advice on how to install an Arial Unicode font onto our SAP system either through transaction SE73 or program RSTXPDF2 when I try to install the font I get an error.

Pls advice

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markus_doehr2
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‎03-12-2009 2:20 AM

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> We have created new SAP smart forms for Poland implementation; these new fonts show accented characters correctly during print preview but print these characters as #.

Can the printer print those files? The font for displaying is note the font printed!

> Arial Unicode will resolve this matter I need some advice on how to install an Arial Unicode font onto our SAP system either through transaction SE73 or program RSTXPDF2 when I try to install the font I get an error.

It would have been of GREAT help, if you would have posted the error you get

If your printer is not a Unicode printer (HPUTF8 or LEXUTF8) then the Unicode font won't help.

  • Which output device did you use in SPAD - is this Latin-2 enabled?

  • Which printer do you use?

Markus

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markus_doehr2
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‎03-12-2009 2:20 AM

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> We have created new SAP smart forms for Poland implementation; these new fonts show accented characters correctly during print preview but print these characters as #.

Can the printer print those files? The font for displaying is note the font printed!

> Arial Unicode will resolve this matter I need some advice on how to install an Arial Unicode font onto our SAP system either through transaction SE73 or program RSTXPDF2 when I try to install the font I get an error.

It would have been of GREAT help, if you would have posted the error you get

If your printer is not a Unicode printer (HPUTF8 or LEXUTF8) then the Unicode font won't help.

  • Which output device did you use in SPAD - is this Latin-2 enabled?

  • Which printer do you use?

Markus

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Former Member
In response to markus_doehr2

‎03-12-2009 9:31 AM

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Hi Markus

Thanks for your reply, expected only a great brain like you would respond.

When loading fonts ArialUnicodeMSLat1 & ArialUnicodeMSLat2 in SAP, the following errors Optional TrueType table missing: PCLT OS/2 table: version not 0/1/2 but 3.

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SAP note 398646 says :

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+The TTF font file does contain a font in "Unicode-Encoding", that is, a "normal" text font. However, this only contains a "PCLT table" (font information PCL-5) that is optional in the TrueType specification. In this PCLT table, a font that deviates from the SAP system fonts is listed as prescribed for this font, for example,

"19U"

instead of:

"0N"

with SAP printer driver for languages DE,EN

As a result, the internal printer font selection (which is part of every PCL-5 printer engine) only activates the font if the font listed in the PCLT table is selected.

Solution

Contact the font manufacturer and create a TTF font file without a PCLT table draw up. This should be also be output under PCL-5 with the SAP printer drivers.+

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Fixed the issue are trying various permutation and combination of other device types. Finally device type I2HP4 works when the "print in colour" option is chosen.

Regards

Shaji

Edited by: Shaji Jacob on Mar 12, 2009 10:39 AM