Basis Errors and Solutions

Symptom

During the conversion of SAPscript or Smart Forms to PDF, an ABAP short dump
DATA_LENGTH_0
occurs in the report RSTXCPDF, form PDF_CONT_ADD_STRING.
The affected line is:
pdf_stream_l+1(strlen) = string_c.
The variable strlen has the value 0.
Other terms

CONVERT_OTF, RSTXPDFT4, PDF1
Reason and Prerequisites

The reason for this is a character code in the OTF text data, which cannot be converted.
For example: Code page 8300 (traditional Chinese) and a string of length 1 byte with hex code 0xBB
This problem occurs only in non-Unicode systems.
This is caused by a program error in the report RSTXCPDF.
Solution

This problem is corrected for Release 8.0.
Import the relevant Support Package for Release 6.20 or higher.