Background print of object connected via object services

SAP's Object Services allows external objects (spreadsheets, Word docs, web sites, ...) to be attached to SAP documents. Some of our invoice documents have a URL attachment. Opening the URL displays a word document which is a statement of the services the vendor provided. We can manually open and print the attachments via the R/3 txn FB03 (document display).
My main question is:
- How can we access and print these attachments in a background process?
Related questions include:
- What SAP tables are used by Object Services to store the link information?
- Are there Internet Explorer API's that must/can be used?
- Is there any SAP documentation that discusses this?
My investigation efforts have been futile. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi David
Have you managed with this issue yet? I have a similar problem where a SAP report needs be executed, downloaded to an EXCEL spreadsheet and then e-mailed to a Blackberry (PDA) (all in background). The Blackberry can only recognise EXCEL files in native EXCEL format. It does not recognise EXCEL flat files as spreadsheets (even if they are saved as .CSV or .XLS - they are word wrapped like normal text files). Getting the files converted to native format in foreground is manageable, but I haven't managed it in background yet.
Thanks
Frederik

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