Program RSTXPDFT4 not creating PDF from spool correctly.

[Former Member]

Were on Basis support pack SAPKB6402, release 640, a Unicode system.

We can view a spool using SP01 and can see the Russian Invoice clearly. However, when we convert the spool to a PDF file using program RSTXPDFT4 we get valid PDF file created with no errors, but, upon viewing we find that ALL the Russian characters are replaced with Square characters with X's on them. We're viewing these using the latest version of Adobe PDF viewer 9.1.

I have checked OSS, searching on RSTXPDFT4 but can find nothing that describes our particular problem.

Has anyone had a problem similat to this or might know the solution?.

Gary

[former_member205763 · Accepted solution]

this note will help you 322998 (PDF conversion: Cyrillic support)

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Many thanks for the details.

I have found a solution though. I used the Open source PDF viewer (Sumatra) and that displays the Cyrillic font just fine. As well as being Open source, it's virus free and also much much smaller in size, and therefore faster in starting up, especially compared to Adobe PDF viewer 9.1.

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable

Regards

Gary King

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes it really works. The other alternative is that you can set your default printer with PDFcreator and then there is no problems but it depends ......