Changing page print orientation

The sap2afp transform lets you enhance the quality of your printing from an SAP R/3 enterprise through the use of form definitions. Form definitions allow you to use electronic overlays and specify both media orientation (how the page is printed) and bin selection. A form definition can consist of multiple copy groups, which are also known as media maps.

This procedure shows how you can define a name for each defined page in an existing Layout Set. If you do not need to change page orientation on a page-by-page basis, see Changing document print orientation. Page-by-page mapping is necessary only if different pages in a document are formatted differently. You should use a custom layout set when making these changes. If you use a system Layout Set, your changes are overwritten each time you upgrade your SAP R/3 system. Remember that each media map remains in effect until SAP R/3 encounters a new media map.

Every spool job in R/3 requires a format (Paper type), whether it is ABAP data (X_65_80) or OTF data (LETTER). SAP R/3 formats are mapped to Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) form definitions in the pagedef.tab configuration file. You can display the format of a spool request in the output controller (SP01).

When mapping an SAP Format to a form definition in the pagedef.tab file, the first media map in the form definition defines the media style for the entire job. If you have a job that contains different electronic overlays on each page, you might have to switch media styles on each page. The sap2afp transform converts names defined in SAP Layout Sets in the paper resources for pages to AFP media map names. For each page that defines a paper resource, the sap2afp transform uses the AFP media map.

By default, the sap2afp transform uses F1SAP form definition, which contains 25 separate media maps for simplex printing, duplex printing, bin selection, and page orientation. In addition, InfoPrint Manager provides an assortment of form definitions, which are described in RICOH InfoPrint Manager: Reference.

Use this procedure on your SAP application server to modify the media map on any page of a job by specifying the media map defined in the F1SAP form definition for the Resource name field:

  1. From the SAP R/3 graphical user interface, access the Layout Set menu screen.

    You can access this view from the SAP R/3 main menu by either specifying the SE71 transaction code in the ok-Code field, or by selecting: Tools → Word Processing → Layout Set

    Note: In SAP R/3 Release 4.13, the Layout Set menu is the Page menu, which contains the Resource Name field cited in step 3.
  2. From the Layout Set main menu, access the Change Pages option and select the job for which you are changing page orientation (in this case, ZASORDER1).
  3. From the first page of the job, double-click so that it is highlighted and fill in the Resource Name field (under the Print Attributes pane).
  4. Double-click the next page that you intend to modify and fill in the Resource Name field on the second page.
  5. Continue with the same procedure on any page where you want to specify a new media style.
  6. Once you have finished, click Save (open folder) to save this setting.
Parent topic: Customizing print characteristics