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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook Featuring over 80 sophisticated recipes, this is a superb tutorial for ABAP developers and consultants. It teaches you advanced SAP programming using the high level language through diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and real-time examples.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684880
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rehan Zaidi Rehan Zaidi
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. ABAP Objects FREE CHAPTER 2. Dynamic Programming 3. ALV Tricks 4. Regular Expressions 5. Optimizing Programs 6. Doing More with Selection Screens 7. Smart Forms – Tips and Tricks 8. Working with SQL Trace 9. Code Inspector 10. Simple Transformations 11. Sending E-mail Using BCS Classes 12. Creating and Consuming Web Services 13. SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe 14. Web Dynpro for ABAP 15. Floorplan Manager Index

PDF object API


The PDF object API allows communicating with the ADS and carrying out necessary functions from an ABAP program. These include creation of forms and extraction of data, and so on. In this recipe, we will see the code that will allow you to communicate with the ADS in order to generate a PDF form object for a filled PDF form and then extract necessary data from it. We assume that we are not using the Adobe offline infrastructure.

There are a few classes and interfaces involved. The factory class CL_FP is used for creating the PDF document object instance that is based on the class CL_FP_PDF_OBJECT (using interface IF_FP_PDF_OBJECT). The main implementation class for the PDF object is CL_FP_PDF_OBJECT.

In this recipe, we will see how a filled form may be programmatically processed using the ADS functions and then the entered data within the form may be extracted. We assume that the form to be processed is stored in the variable MYFORM having type XSTRING. The recipe takes on from...

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