Display PDF in Popup / How to do this?

Hi folks,
I'm trying to establish a popup in one of my WD4As which I want to display a PDF which is stored on the application server. Here is what I do:
1. Collect Data from User Input / Runtime Output of WD4A
2. Send it to a XSLT Transformation and render it into an XML-String
3. XML String is converted into PDF via 3rd party program
4. PDF is stored on the appserver
I've already searched the forum about the possibility of displaying PDFs and always came across Adobe Interactive Forms / Adobe Document Services / UI-Element "Interactive Form". Now I thought I could just read the PDF from appserver into an Xstring and bind it to the Interactive Form UI-Element, but it always requests a "template source". I fail to understand why I have to do this and what I have to enter there.
Bottom line I want it to look like the Payslip application in ESS. Is my approach right? Has anyone ever come across this problem? PDF on appserv --> convert to xstring --> Display in WD4A.
If my Question is too basic because I lack knowledge of a certain point of intersection here, please point me to some tutorials or information material if possible.
regards, Lukas
P.S. We don't have Adobe Document Services

Hi,
first of all, thanks allfor the support
I've done it as Santosh suggested and look-and-feel-wise this is a good solution for us. The via 3rd party Program created PDF is Read in and bound to a context attribute in Xstring. Xstring is Bound to the Download-Element. When I klick on the Download-Element I get "Page cannot be displayed". I'm reading it in like this:
OPEN DATASET lv_helpstring1 FOR INPUT IN BINARY MODE.
    IF sy-subrc = 0.
      READ DATASET lv_helpstring1 INTO lv_pdf_xstring.
    ENDIF.
CLOSE DATASET lv_helpstring1.
Is this wrong? If I download the PDF from AL11 manually and display it, it works, so I guess I'm somehow serializing it wrong. Any guesses?
EDIT: Also, how would I be able to debug what's happening once I klick on the Download-Link? I don't see any coding behind so I wouldn't know where to set a break-point.
best regards, Lukas
Edited by: Lukas Weigelt on May 9, 2011 12:46 PM

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