SP01: Printing pages greater than 256 characters wide

[Former Member]

Hi all,

        I have a report which is printing more than 256 characters wide on the page. The program seems to use Format X_65_256/2, to which the page is being split width wise and printing it on 2 pages. I look at the logic of the output management and it seems that SAP ERP calculates the best fit format required for the report at runtime. To create another format with Z* won't work because the choice of best fit formats is sorted alphabetically, it will chose format X_65_256/2 always.

        We would like the report to fit on a page width wise without splitting. Has anyone experienced this?

        Thank you for your help.

[DavidLY]

Hello,

For ABAP list printing the font size is determined in the printer initialization of the format. The font size and orientation are determined by the output format(e.g. X_65_255) and the device type. If the device type uses the ABAP list driver, the font size is automatically calculated using the page format, the margins and the number of columns and lines. If the device type doesn't use the list driver, the font size is set in the 'Printer initialization'.

If you want to change this, please check the SAP note: 17895.

Regards,

David