Configure SAP Printer to send spool as PDF attachment
This cool method will allow you to convert any SAP output in PDF format and send it as email attachment.
You must have used program RSTXPDFT4 earlier for similar purpose, however for normal user finding spool number and then executing program is too much. And I have seen users printing and scanning outputs to forward it to customer/vendor. This will simplify the whole process and provides an easy method to achieve the end result. Basically you define a printer in SAP with deriver type PDF and access method 'M'. And anything printed on this printer will be send as pdf attachment to email specified.
To define such printer follow below steps
1. Goto transaction SPAD (Spool Administrator) and Hit 'Display' button.
2. On next screen hit 'Create' button.
3. On 'Device Attributes' tab fill in 'Output device' and 'Short name'. Select device type 'PDF1 : PDF:ISO Latin-1 4.6D+'. Press F4 on Spool server and select relevant spool server from list.
4. On 'Access method' tab select 'M' as access method. Input 'Email address' and 'Only use This Mail Address' will appear. If you want all emails to be sent to one email address and would not allow user to change that email adderss then enter adddres and check the box. If left blank system will prompt user to enter email addrres before printing.
You must have used program RSTXPDFT4 earlier for similar purpose, however for normal user finding spool number and then executing program is too much. And I have seen users printing and scanning outputs to forward it to customer/vendor. This will simplify the whole process and provides an easy method to achieve the end result. Basically you define a printer in SAP with deriver type PDF and access method 'M'. And anything printed on this printer will be send as pdf attachment to email specified.
To define such printer follow below steps
1. Goto transaction SPAD (Spool Administrator) and Hit 'Display' button.
2. On next screen hit 'Create' button.
3. On 'Device Attributes' tab fill in 'Output device' and 'Short name'. Select device type 'PDF1 : PDF:ISO Latin-1 4.6D+'. Press F4 on Spool server and select relevant spool server from list.
4. On 'Access method' tab select 'M' as access method. Input 'Email address' and 'Only use This Mail Address' will appear. If you want all emails to be sent to one email address and would not allow user to change that email adderss then enter adddres and check the box. If left blank system will prompt user to enter email addrres before printing.
3 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 at 2:31 AMGood post, but need to mention some pre-requsites also.Reply
Please refer notes :
1.Note 311037 - Printing using e-mail
2.Note 513352 - Printing by e-mail (update)
3.Note 317851 - Creating PDF format using the SAP spooler in 4.6C-4.6B-4.5B.
Regards,
Sameersingh Pardeshi 
Hi Sameersingh,Reply
Thanks for providing prerequisite for SAP R/3 4.6c.
However, this should work fine in ECC6.
Regards,
Pawan.
Thanks for the same.
Regards,
Ravi