Adobe Forms in SAP (TrueType Fonts/Zebra Printer)

Report · Oct 20, 2021

Hello

Starting position:
- SAP / Adobe Forms (Livecycle Designer)
- Zebra Printer ZE500 300dpi
- TrueType Font Arial Narrow (installed on the printer)
- Adobe Livecycle Workbench-Helps for XDC files are known, but we still get no further

Problem:
Although everything looks OK in the print preview, but it does not print the correct font.

Supposition:
The .XDC file is not correct.

Question:
How must the .XDC file be adapted so that the correct font that is installed on the printer is used?
(both Latin-I and Latin-II character sets)
Does the .XDC file really have to be adjusted manually or is there another way (e.g. using the SAP form?)?

In particular the following lines:

<seq id="CG Triumvirate_Normal_Normal_ISO-8859-1">0</seq>
<seq id="ZebraA_Normal_Normal_ISO-8859-1">A</seq>

<option name="enumerateFonts">0</option>
<option name="startingFontNumber">9000</option>
<option name="startingFontLetter">I</option>
<option name="softFontCompression">asciiHex</option>
<option name="softFontDevice">R:</option>
<option name="alwaysOutputFontSelect">1</option>

softFontDevice R: = RAM? E: = FlashMemory?

<font typeface="CG Triumvirate" size="1000pt" weight="normal" posture="normal" select="implicitLink" textEncoding="ISO-8859-1">
<metrics defaultCharWidth="867pt" textEncoding="ISO-8859-1" ascent="750pt" descent="250pt" lineHeight="1200pt" pitch="variable" scalable="1" source="">

</metrics>
</font>
<font typeface="ZebraA" size="1000pt" weight="normal" posture="normal" select="implicitLink" textEncoding="ISO-8859-1">
<metrics defaultCharWidth="555pt" textEncoding="ISO-8859-1" ascent="777pt" descent="223pt" lineHeight="1200pt" pitch="variable" scalable="1" source="">
<charWidths>32-255:555pt</charWidths>
</metrics>
</font>

We would be very grateful for any help, as we are a bit at a loss in the meantime and there are countless possibilities / variables.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Report · Jul 11, 2022

Hi Abteilung5C3F:

we have this problem, did you solve this problem?

thanks a lot!!

Report · Jul 11, 2022

Hi

No, unfortunately not, since no help came/cannot be expected from Adobe, Zebra or SAP.

We will conduct further testing in due course and will resort to a no-TrueType font as a last resort. (...one would think that in 2022 this shouldn't be a problem. WYSIWYG)

If anyone has a solution, we would also be grateful.
Because the whole test is not only very time-consuming, but there is also no logic in the results.

Have a nice day.

Report · Oct 26, 2022

++ Updating this thread

Please see the topic linked below resolved today 26 October 2022:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/sap-adobe-forms-controlling-qr-code-size-for-zebr...

Although the issue is about printing specific dimesnions for a barcode label, it contains plenty of references and the actual solution on how to edit the XDC file; shared by the author of the thread to the SAP community

You may need to code the Designer.XDC output file with the proper syntax and combine it with the XML coded file in that PDF.

Report · May 16, 2024

We are struggling with the same issue. I'm about to dive deep into the link that describes the QR code print issue - but I was wondering if anyone else had success? And if so, did you document your process and would be willing to share?

Thanks,

Matt