New line for text file

Former Member · ‎01-06-2015

Hi,

I am trying to send text file as an email attachment using cl_document_bcs->add_attachment method.

My requirment is to get the file in below format..

%FDF-1.2%âãÏÓ

1 0 obj

<</FDF

<</Fields[

<</T(COMPANY_ADDRESS)/V(ABC PVT) Ltd PO Box 7058 Greenstone 1616 ZA ZA)>>

/ID[]/UF()>>/Type/Catalog>>

endobj

trailer

<</Root 1 0 R>>

%%EOF

I have hard coded most of the stuff like below..

DATA:

DATA:it_fdf TYPE bcsy_text,

wa_fdf TYPE soli.

CONSTANT:

d14(8) VALUE '%FDF-1.2',

d15(6) VALUE '%âãÏÓ',

d16(7) VALUE '1 0 obj',

d17(20) VALUE '/FDF << /Fields [',

d18(6) VALUE '[ << /T ('.

wa_fdf = d14.

CONDENSE wa_fdf.

APPEND wa_fdf TO it_fdf.

wa_fdf = d15.

CONDENSE wa_fdf.

APPEND wa_fdf TO it_fdf.

wa_fdf = d16.

CONDENSE wa_fdf.

APPEND wa_fdf TO it_fdf.

wa_fdf = d17.

CONDENSE wa_fdf.

APPEND wa_fdf TO it_fdf.

ls_atatchments-objtp = 'txt'.

ls_atatchments-subject = pv_subject.

ls_atatchments-cont_text = it_fdf.

APPEND ls_atatchments TO attachment.

CALL METHOD lo_document->add_attachment

EXPORTING

i_attachment_type = ls_atatchments-objtp

i_attachment_subject = pv_title

i_att_content_text = ls_atatchments-cont_text.

but output text file is appearing as per the attachment..

but I want to write text file like

%FDF-1.2%âãÏÓ- in first line

1 0 obj- in second line (Currently second line is appearing in first line after 250 char as line for SOLI is 250 char...)

Could you any one tell me how I can achieve this in order to get the line in second line not after the 250 char..?

I really appreciate your help on this.

Thanks,

Sara.

Katan · ‎01-06-2015

Hi Sara,

Have you tried concatenating the carriage returns to your strings for each line you expect?

Class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES has a public static attribute for a carriage return line feed. "CR_LF"

You could try....

wa_fdf = d14 && CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF .

CONDENSE wa_fdf.

APPEND wa_fdf TO it_fdf.

Or.....

CONCATENATE d14 CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF INTO wa_fdf .

CONDENSE wa_fdf.

APPEND wa_fdf TO it_fdf.

Cheers,

Katan

Former Member · ‎01-10-2015

Thanks Katan..It resolved my Issue but I am facing the Issue like..when I send file type .TXT in add_attachment the format is coming correctly..But when I changed the file type to FDF in add_attachment it's adding one space before and after the each character.. and not recognizing the new line I guess it's taking that as unicode format..

Do you have any idea how we can avoid spaces before and after each char..and recognize the new line in FDF file.

I am using CONDENSE space before populating the output data.

My data is fine while sending it to add_attachment.But in the output it's adding space before and after each charter.

I appreciate your help on this.

Thanks,

Sara.

rosenberg_eitan · ‎01-10-2015

Hi,

It seems that you try to generate PDF .

You can use the PRINT_TEXT and get the OTFDATA that can be converted to PDF .

regards.

FORM mail_1_prep_4

CHANGING

ob_document_bcs TYPE REF TO cl_document_bcs .

DATA: st_thead TYPE thead .

DATA: it_lines TYPE tline_tab .

st_thead-tdobject = 'TEXT' .

st_thead-tdname = 'AAAA .

st_thead-tdid = 'ST' .

st_thead-tdspras = 'E' .

CALL FUNCTION 'INIT_TEXT'

EXPORTING

id = st_thead-tdid

language = st_thead-tdspras

name = st_thead-tdname

object = st_thead-tdobject

TABLES

lines = it_lines

EXCEPTIONS

id = 1

language = 2

name = 3

object = 4

OTHERS = 5.

DATA: st_lines LIKE LINE OF it_lines .

DO 1000 TIMES .

st_lines-tdformat = '*' .

st_lines-tdline = 'This is a test +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++' .

APPEND st_lines TO it_lines .

ENDDO .

DATA: it_otfdata TYPE otf_t_itcoo .

DATA: st_options TYPE itcpo.

st_options-tdgetotf = abap_true .

CALL FUNCTION 'PRINT_TEXT'

EXPORTING

dialog = abap_false

header = st_thead

OPTIONS = st_options

TABLES

lines = it_lines

otfdata = it_otfdata

EXCEPTIONS

canceled = 1

device = 2

form = 3

OPTIONS = 4

unclosed = 5

unknown = 6

format = 7

textformat = 8

communication = 9

bad_pageformat_for_print = 10

OTHERS = 11.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno

WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.

ENDIF.

DATA: it_otfdata_m TYPE otf_t_itcoo .

* "Merge pdf output demo"

APPEND LINES OF it_otfdata TO it_otfdata_m .

DATA: bin_file TYPE xstring .

DATA: it_lines_dummy TYPE tline_tab .

DATA: bin_filesize TYPE i .

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_OTF'

EXPORTING

format = 'PDF'

IMPORTING

bin_file = bin_file

bin_filesize = bin_filesize

TABLES

otf = it_otfdata_m

lines = it_lines_dummy

EXCEPTIONS

err_max_linewidth = 1

err_format = 2

err_conv_not_possible = 3

err_bad_otf = 4

OTHERS = 5.

DATA: it_solix TYPE solix_tab .

CALL METHOD cl_bcs_convert=>xstring_to_solix

EXPORTING

iv_xstring = bin_file

RECEIVING

et_solix = it_solix.

DATA: attachment_subject TYPE so_obj_des .

MESSAGE s000(oo) WITH 'attachment PDF hex' space INTO attachment_subject .

TRY.

CALL METHOD ob_document_bcs->add_attachment

EXPORTING

i_attachment_type = 'pdf'

i_attachment_subject = attachment_subject

i_att_content_hex = it_solix.

CATCH cx_document_bcs .

ENDTRY.

ENDFORM . "mail_1_prep_4

Former Member · ‎01-11-2015

HI Eitan,

I am not trying to generate PDF..My requirment is to send adobe form data in FDF format..

FDF file is similar to PDF with less file size..as we don't have any standard FM to convert form data into FDF like pdf..I am trying to generate FDF file manually by writing the file tags like mentioned above..So I am facing the above mentioned Issues.which I am looking for solution..

Thanks,

Sara.

rosenberg_eitan · ‎01-11-2015

Hi,

Are you attempting to generate manually adobe interactive form with input fields ?

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/SAP+Interactive+Forms+by+Adobe

Also try:

1 .

ls_atatchments-objtp = 'pdf'.

CALL METHOD lo_document->add_attachment

EXPORTING

i_attachment_type = ls_atatchments-objtp

i_attachment_subject = pv_title

i_att_content_text = ls_atatchments-cont_text .

2.

Try to concatenate every thing into a big xString/String

use CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF as seperator .

and then:

cl_bcs_convert=>xstring_to_solix or cl_bcs_convert=>string_to_soli

I did not have the chance to generate adobe interactive even using "Adobe LiveCycle Designer" .

Regards.

rosenberg_eitan · ‎01-11-2015

Hi,

I can see binary data in CSF_Univ. Of Bradford_SO#310205490.txt

Have you consider using external tools to generate your form .

If I had to do this task without using "Adobe LiveCycle Designer"

I would probably will use java with ITEXT library .

- We can generate a text file from SAp

- call java as external command to generate the PDF interactive form .

- Read the file created as binary attachment.

I wrote about generating Excel using Java here :

Regards.

Former Member · ‎01-12-2015

Eitan,

I will explain you what I am trying to achieve here..I have custom program which generate adobe form for service orders..and send email to service engineers as email attachment in pdf form..

Which is working fine..I got a additional requirment where I need to send fdf file with few fileds in the form..fdf file is similar like pdf form but with less size...so i though of writing the file manually with fdf tages mentioned in the previous response..

While generating it if I use the .TXT extension it's generating the file as expected but when i changed the file type to fdf it's adding one space before and after each character in the file and not recognizing the new line..

I am guessing system thinking that as unicode and adding the space..is there any way that we can convert the uni code..?

Thanks,

Sara.

nomssi · ‎01-12-2015

Hello Sara,

the system codepage is unicode with 2 bytes per char. You probably want to convert the text to unicode UTF-8 using

cl_abap_conv_out_ce=>create( encoding = 'UTF-8' )->convert(

EXPORTING data = iv_string

IMPORTING buffer = rv_xstring ).

That will give you 1 byte for most chars, some characters will need more.

A better solution would be to

- use XSTRING instead or C for your binary header and

- convert the rest (normal text data) to UTF-8.

Look at Otto Frost's code for examples.

hope this helps,

JNN