ADOBE forms usage

[Former Member]

I wanted to see what uses you could use ADS for?

Would it add any value for any of the following?

High volume Bill generation and printing.

Output management in general

Reports

Also would you need different skillsets other than the standard ABAP developer who is creating smartforms or SAPscript?

[Former Member]

Hi,

First the definition for the ones who dont know about ADS.

Adobe document services (ADS) is a set of runtime services deployed on the Application Server that provide a range of form and document creation and manipulation functions. The key capabilities of the ADS are the creation of documents in PDF and various print formats from XML form templates and current system data, and the extraction of user-entered data from interactive PDF forms.

To facilitate the use of the Adobe document services capabilities in the SAP environment, SAP provides a single programmatic interface called PDF Document Object (or PDF Object), which is provided both in Java and ABAP.

So , ABAP developer cant be ruled out.

Smart Forms are still supported; you can continue to forms created in Smart Forms without making any changes.

By migrating Smart Forms, you can reuse them as PDF-based print forms.

It is basically for mass printing in SAP.

So , it will definately add a lot of value.

Regards,

Tanveer.

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