Basis Errors and Solutions

PDF conversion of ABAP lists: Truncated columns

July 13, 2009 at 1:13 am

[abap pdf] [data truncated] [PDF1] [PDFUC] [truncated] [truncated value]

ITS Up/Down: long lines truncated during clipboard importSymptom long lines are truncated after clipboard import. Other terms frontend services, cl_gui_frontend_services, clipboard_import Reason and Prerequisites the clipboard contains lines, which are longer than the line length of the internal table,...
ITS: Search help hit list contains truncated entriesSymptom In the search help hit lists, problems such as the following may occur: A column does not display the initial letters of the relevant text, orThe contents of the column are...

Symptom

If you convert ABAP spool lists to a PDF, the list is sometimes truncated on the right-hand side in the PDF document.
The display of the spool request in transaction SP01 is correct and displays the additional columns.
Other terms

PDF1, PDFUC
Reason and Prerequisites

The problem occurs if the format type (for example, X_65_255) used in the spool request has a lower maximum number of columns than the maximum number of columns actually used in the list. The PDF converter uses the number of columns and lines specified by the format type to format the PDF document.
For example:
If an ALV list with 300 columns is written in a spool request with format X_65_255, the list data has up to 300 columns, but the assigned format type suggests a maximum width of only 255 columns.
When you display the list in transaction SP01, this problem is solved by the corrections from Note 1226758. The same solution must also be implemented in the PDF converter for ABAP lists to avoid the aforementioned problem.
Solution

The PDF converter for ABAP lists uses the maximum number of columns actually defined in the spool request if this is higher than that derived from the format. Truncated columns are avoided in the PDF as a result.

This error is corrected with Release 7.20.
As of Release 6.20, you can import the relevant Support Package to correct this error.