Display pdf of an xstring directly in ERP

Hi,
I am trying to generate a pdf-file out of an xstring-object which I got from the pdf creation in webdynpro.
I want to display the pdf directly in the erp-system. Does anybody know how to convert the xstring to pdf and how to directly show the pdf without saving it to harddisk?
Thanks in advance,
Patrick

Check this out -:)
<a href="https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/SAPPDFViewer">SAP PDF Viewer (Code Gallery)</a>
Greetings,
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