but not for Japanese or Russian.Ĥ) The set of available printer fonts for a given device type Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish but NOT Russian or Japanese.Īs a consequence, it is ok to use HPLJ4000 to print English, German French etc.
#SAP FONT SIZE ISO#
This is so because both character sets contain the special characters used in German.Įxample: HPLJ4000 is a HP LaserJet device type supporting the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. you may use either ISO 8895-1 (Latin-1) or ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) to represent German text. It is possible that a given language (such as German) can be supported by several output character sets, e.g. ISO 8859-1, which supports Western-European languages). Shift-JIS which supports only Japanese) or a set of languages (e.g. All text from the form has to be converted (using SAP's built-in character conversion mechanism) to this output character set.Ī character set can typically support either a single language (e.g. Device types used by the spooler for printing support only one single specific output character set. If you want to print Japanese text, HELVE is not a valid choice but you need to specify a Japanese font like JPMINCHO in your Japanese form.ģ) The output character set of the device typeĮvery printer in transaction SPAD has a "device type" assigned.
And the application program must specify the corresponding language key (FR) when calling the SAPscript or SmartForms API.Ģ) The font selections specified in the form (possibly also in a SAPscript style or SmartStyle used in a form).Įxample: In a SAPscript form or a SmartStyle you need to specify HELVE if you want to print German text in Helvetica (or similar) font. All these factors must be checked in order to ensure a correct printout:ġ) The language version of the form used to produce the printout.Įxample: If you want to print a French invoice, you need to have a FR version of your SAPscript or SmartForms invoice form RVINVOICE01. When using SAPscript or SmartForms to print (or email or fax) a form from a business application, many factors influence the outcome of the actual text within the form.
# prints instead of Japanese or Russian characters. SAPscript/SmartForms: Which fonts for which languages?ĭocuments printed via SAPscript or SmartForms do not print with correct special characters, e.g.
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