SAP: How to turn spool requests into PDF files

For sure in the past in more than one opportunity you had the need to generate a PDF file from a certain SAP report. This is very easy, since we only need to generate a spool request and execute a standard SAP program, without any assistance of an abaper!

The standard report RSTXPDFT4 allows to convert every spool request into a PDF file.

The way to use it is very simple:

1.      Generate any spool request from any SAP transaction, without “immediate output”. Take note of the generated spool request number in transaction SP01 or SP02

2.      Access transaction SE38 or SA38 and execute the report RSTXPDFT4

3.      Type the spool request number obtained in step 1

4.      Define the folder and the name of the PDF file to be created

5.      Execute the program

6.      Access in Windows to the defined path and file defined in step 4

7.      Open the selected file. You have now your spool request in a nice PDF format!

I hope this helps for your daily tasks!

Adrian Wilder (Twitter: @adrianwilder. Websites: www.sap-ob08.com – www.infoaval.com.ar)