SAP Note 19834 - PPPR: Printing shop floor papers: fields shifted

Symptom:

Error printing the shop floor papers.
The order number is shifted to the right.
Print control uses the SAP standard.
Layout set: PPPR_PICK-LIST
Report: PPPRMBRL
Under certain circumstances, elements are not output at all.

Cause and prerequisites

Involves a general problem with layout set formatting. Because different fonts are used during output depending on the printer type, words are output with different lengths. If a tab item is overlapped in the process:
TEXT1-IS-TOO-WIDE TEXT2

then all subsequent texts skip one tab. TEXT2 is output at position . In the above example, TEXT3 is not output at all, because no tab is left to position it. Such errors can also easily arise when you redesign a form, particularly when you do not pay attention to the output lengths of the data fields. Another typical source of error is the use of a proportional font, as they make it impossible to calculate the exact text widths.

Solution
First make sure that proportional fonts are not used in the header, paragraph definitions, and string definitions in the layout set. You then have to revise the tabs, paying particular attention to the lengths of the data fields.