Business objects PRINTFFORM 7.90C RELEASE NOTES REV1 User Manual

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Release Notes

PrintForm 7.90cR1

February 2009

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PrintForm 7.90cR1 Release Notes

What’s included in this release?

The following are included in this release:

 “Intelligent Mail (IM) barcodes” on page 5
 “Selective Duplexing filter option” on page 7
 “Remove blank pages from file” on page 8

Operating system versions

Operating System Compiler

Windows XP Professional, 2003 Server,

Visual Studio 2003

and Vista Professional (32- and 64-bit)

Vista users In order to run the PrintForm online help, you must download and install the

WinHlp32.exe file from Microsoft. This executable is not installed with the
PrintForm application.

Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607

for download and installation

instructions.

New instructions
regarding how to

Now that Business Objects is a part of SAP, you need to use the SAP Service
Marketplace (SMP) to connect with customer support.

contact customer
support

For more detailed information about this process, go to: http://service.sap.com

Documentation

Complete documentation

A complete PrintForm documentation set includes the following:

set

 PrintForm User’s Guide
 Quick Reference for Views and Job-File Products
 Programmer's Guide to Custom DLLs
 System Administrator’s Guide
 Edjob User’s Guide
 Database Prep

Install Reader To install Adobe Reader download th e la test version from the Adobe website.

Access the latest
documentation

Release notes and other documentation are only available in electronic format
(PDF and help files). You can access product documentation in several places:

 On your computer. Release notes, manuals, and other documents for each

product that you have installed are available in the Documentation folder.
Choose Start > Programs > Business Objects applications >
Documentation.

 On the internet. Go to http://help.sap.com and click Business Objects at the

top of the page. You can view the PDFs online or save the m to your computer
for viewing or printing.

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Installation notes

Installation advice To simplify installation, read the following tips before you begin:

 You should give the contents of this software shipment to your system

administrator. It is recommended that the software be installed only by, or
with the approval of, the system administrator.

 Although you can install your applications and directories in any order, we

recommend that you install software first and then directories.

Install on Windows To install PrintForm, follow these steps:

1. Access your Windows Start menu and choose Run.

2. In the Run window, type x:\setup and click OK. The installation program

should start.

Install PrintForm in a directory called pw. Be sure to install all supporting
directory files. Run PrintForm directly from the appropriate subdirectory, for
example, pw\pf.

For details, see the System Administrator’s Guide.

Run Edjob Run the pwpfjob.upd patch script using the version of Edjob installed in your

pw\adm directory t

o update your job files (.ins, .pfp, .pcc, .map, and .pf). Here

is the general form of the command line:
edjob [options] [path]

Client shortcuts If you have PrintForm installed on one computer, but you run it from another

pwpfjob.upd job_file.pf

computer using client shortcuts, you must refresh your client-side short cuts by
using the Universal Client installer.

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PrintForm 7.90cR1 Release Notes

Intelligent Mail (IM) barcodes

PrintForm now supports Intelligent Mail (IM) barcodes. PrintForm will support
both the Postnet barcode and the new Intelligent Mail barcode for the transition
period where the USPS allows mailers to use either one.

You cannot intermix the Postnet and IM barcodes on dif f ere nt ou tp ut fi les.
PrintForm displays an error message if it detects a job set up like this.

Tray/Sack and Container (Pallet) Intelligent Mail barcodes are handled in the
same way that Presort and Label Studio currently handle them. Set up Presort to
post information to a container output file which Label Studio then picks up for
tag or placard printing.

New IM barcode field During the Define Statement Fields step, PrintForm uses the 65 character field,

IMB_ADR_EC for IM barcode processing. You must post either the Presort
IMB_ADR_EC or IMB_ADR_AC field to this field during input posting as
these fields include the encoded barcode string.

New Barcode Type option

The Barcode Type option enables you to choose to print the Postnet barcode or
the Intelligent Mail barcode.

1. To access Printer Barcode Setup, select Tools > Printer Barcode and select
New Setup or Open Setup.

2. From

Printer Barcode Setup options, select a Barcode Type of Postnet

(default setting) or

When you select Intelligent Mail barcode, the Printer calculates

correction (check digit)

Intelligent Mail barcode.

option will be disabled.

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3. Enter the values for the following:

Option Description

Include IM barcode field in address layout

Load/Initialize Values

Unload/Terminate Values

Switch On Values

Switch Off Values

Enter the decimal value for loading the printer barcode
font, at the beginning of the file. You may also enter deci­mal values for other commands here.

Enter the decimal value for unloading the printer barcode
font, at the end of the file. You may also enter decimal val­ues for other commands here.

Enter the decimal value that will turn on a command (such
as the printer barcode font).

Enter the decimal value that will turn off a command (such
as the printer barcode font).

To include the new IM barcode field in your address layout:

1. Access Address Layout and click the Barcode button.

2. Select db.IMB_ADR_EC from the Field list.

If you insert the Intelligent Mail barcode into an address block that is less
than 65 characters, the IM barcode will print, but will extend outside of the
marked address block. Be sure that the IM barcode does not overwrite any
text as PrintForm does not check for this automatically.

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PrintForm 7.90cR1 Release Notes

Selective Duplexing filter option

The Filter Builder option is now available in Duplex Processing options.
Access Duplex Processing options and choose the filt er that you want to use. You

can either choose an existing filter from the drop-down list or click the button to
go to a window where you can set up a new filter. T o duple x all sta tements, leave
this option blank.

New Statement file field

The 1-character field, STM_DUPLEX_FLAG is available in the PrintForm
statement file (.stm). During the duplex processing step, this field will be set with
a value of Y to indicate duplex filter returned TRUE for that statement. All
statement file (.stm) records will have the STM_DUPLEX_FLAG set to Y if no
duplex filter is specified. Later during merge processing step, the
STM_DUPLEX_FLAG field will be used to determine if the statement should be
treated as duplexed.

Notes:

 A banner page that precedes a duplexed statement will also be duplexed.
 When using a duplex filter, it is possible that combined statements could

be created where some of the component statements are flagged as
duplex and some are not. PrintForm will not assume the best way to
correct this situation, but will display a warning if this situation occurs.
You are resposible for coordinating the duplex and statement combine
values to prevent duplexed and non-duplexed statements from being
combined.

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Remove blank pages from file

You now have the option to remove blank pages on input. This option removes
pages that contain 1 or more lines with all blanks.

If there are unprintable characters on a page, Print F orm w il l not remo ve th at
page.

To remove blank pages from input:

1. Access Input Processing > Edit Translation File > Advanced Properties.

2. Select the Other tab, and select Strip blank pages from file.

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