Display PDF from BAPI's binary output

Dear All,
I am struck badly with this scenerio here.
we have a Bapi which is generating an adobe form in the backend and providing that as an attribute of type binary.
i used the following code to display that binary output, to be opened in Acrobet reader.
byte[] pdfContent= wdContext.nodeZhra_Get_Lettertype_Desc_Input().nodeOutput().currentOutputElement().getE_Bin_File();
     IWDCachedWebResource pdfResource = WDWebResource.getWebResource(pdfContent,WDWebResourceType.PDF);
     IWDWindow win = wdComponentAPI.getWindowManager().createExternalWindow(pdfResource.getURL(),"PDF in Arabic",true);
     win.setTitle("PDF in Arabic");
     win.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.ADDRESS_BAR);
     win.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.TOOL_BAR);
     win.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.MENU_BAR);
     win.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.STATUS_BAR);
     win.show();
the problem is that the acrobet reader opens and says it could not display the file and it may be not supported or might be damaged.BUT
1. the file is being generated and correctly displayed on another system
2. both systems have the same version and updates of acrober reader 9.
Kindly let me know the solution or some work-around to solve this problem. Is there a way,where i should use interactive form to do this...
thanks in advance

Hello!
If it works on one client but not on the other i think it is not a Server problem.
Check th following:
Open the document in the Browser where it is displayed and save it on a thumbdrive and open it on the other client.
-> If it works: it must be Browser settings
-> If not: the generated PDF is not valid for the Adobe Reader of the other client.
If it works on the Server but not on the client, try to dump it to a file on the Webserver to see if the BAPI call (RFC/WS) is the problem. When you use XString for exampe I think there is a problem with the data beeing split into several lines. If you have the file you should be able to open it. Compare the size of the File on the WebAS and the backend.
Kind regards
Matthias
Edited by: Matthias Schneider on Nov 4, 2008 6:19 PM

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