Invoke a Workbench process to render a PDF form via URL?

Is it possible to use a browser to call a URL that launches a Workbench process and returns a PDF.
I have a Workbench process that calls RenderPDFForm, and returns a PDF.
I would like to be able to call this process from a URL.
I can see the WSLD properties of the process if I try calling the process with the soap/services path:
http://server-name:8080/soap/services/TestRenderPDFForm?wsdl
What I cannot seem to determine is the proper URL to use to invoke the process from a browser.
Any help or insights are appreciated.
Thanks
Mark

With the 8.x versions of LiveCycle you'll need something to recieve the browser request - such as a servlet or a .net app. That "something" will make the actual request to LiveCycle (using the API) and then will broker the response.

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