Getting Dynamic image in PDF ( form R/3 as URL )

Hi gurus ,
I am using a wd java application . In that i want to show employee pic in adobe form . I have RFC in place , that gives me URL (ex : http://retep.... ) containing employee pic Context is of type string
Now i have craeted a image field in PDF .when i directly binding context data to image dield , Image is not being displayed. i am not sure about scripting and how to bind that context to image field , so that based on the url it dynamically displayes employee pic.
Any suggestions are most welcome .
Regards
Abhay

In RFC instead of giving the URL ,tell them to give the image as a bytestream.And convert that byte stream into gif or jpg image using the following code,,,,,
byte[] pdfContent=wdContext.nodeOutput().currentOutputElement().getTestform();
 IWDCachedWebResource pdfResource = WDWebResource.getWebResource(pdfContent,WDWebResourceType.JPG_IMAGE/* or u can use GIF_IMAGE*/);
 try{
 wdContext.currentContextElement().set<this is a user created attribute of typw string>Pdfurl(pdfResource.getURL());
 }catch (Exception e) {
 wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportException(e.getMessage(),true);
And bind this pdf url to an iFrame or adobe interactive form it wil work..
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Warm regards
Shanto Aloor
Edited by: Armin Reichert on Apr 26, 2008 7:06 PM

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