We are currently unable to print more than 31 characters in a string in our smartform. The text is rotated, and ^fs is inserted after 31 characters (we caught the ZPL going to the printer), breaking our line in half. We have other applications sharing the printer that do not have this issue - seems to be specific to the smartform coming out of SAP. Has anyone experienced a similar issue? We cannot break the string into logical parts, as the length of the characters varies depending on the letters. Any ideas are appreciated.
I think it is just limited to 31 characters as far as I know. Never humbled over a node or anything else which provides a solution to it.
If you want to use the Courier-Solution I refer you to the official zebra-documentation. Page 42 explains how to install additional fonts and what fonts are supported.
We opened an OSS with SAP - this is a hard system limitation. Had to redevelop the entire form w/ a fixed width font so that we could calculate where to split & start strings. It has nothing to do w/ window size, etc.
I am facing the same issue right now with the ZEBRA prints. You said you had to redevelop the entire form with a fixed width font. Could you please tell me how you did this?
Right now I am printing material description (40 chars) and I am having this issue. As a temporary solution, I split the description into 30 and 10 chars and put them in two seperate windows. This solution will not work in all instances. I need to fix this.
Please let me know how you did the fixed width font thing?
Sorry on the delay - we have been out for holiday.
Choose a font for your form where all the characters are the same width - we used Courier
Then - you can always split your string and print/test to determine where each portion of the string should start, as each set of 30 characters, regardless of content, will be exactly the same.
Thanks for the response. I think I tried COURIER earlier and for some reason it was not printing all the characters with same width.
FYI - on my label I am using HELVIC font for information like Material Number, Batch Number...... I used COURIER on material description (length 40 chars) which had the problem and for some reason the width of the characters printing was not fixed.
I see two COURIER fonts out there in smartstyles COURIER and COUR_I7. Which one did you use?
I will give this is a try once again. BTW - you said you created an OSS for this issue.... do you have any OSS number or something for what you created?
I tried COURIER font and for some reason I don't see any change in the label print. For example I used COURIER font on below texts
thisisatestof30charprint
THISISATESTOF30CHARPRINT
when I print the above texts to normal windows printer, both the above texts take same length but when I print to ZEBRA printer, they both are not printing with same length. For some reason I think, the ZEBRA is not recognizing COURIER font. Did you do anything with the ZEBRA printer to make it recognize the COURIER font?
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