FR: Opening Reports in .pdf over a Web Link URL

Hello,
I want to build a kind of start page in html, from where the users can launch financial reports. For this, I have integrated the URL link to the document like
href="http://localhost.ads.company.nl:19000/workspace/browse/get/Reports/Controlling/Development/PortStrukABCSplit">Profitability Overview</a>
This opens the report in html.
The question is how to modify the link so it opens in .pdf?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Regards,
Philip Hulsebosch

I've used the following on 901 and 931 to toggle between PDF and html reports for users:
?repository_format_id=pdf
?repository_format_id=html
I actually assign this to a variable so I just need to append to the URL, this also opens in a new window:
printPDF = "?repository_format_id=pdf"
Application.OpenURL( ServerName + url +printPDF,"_new")

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