Name of PDF when saving

Hi,
I created a pdf and display it in WD4A. Everything works flne but when my users want to save the PDF locally with the standard adobe save button, the file name by default is "F.pdf".
Thats in deed not a very meaningful name and I asked myself where it come from.
But what I would like to ask you guys is whether and especially where and how i can set the PDF name for saving.
In the best case it would automatically get the e.g. something like this "[invoicenumber]-[customer]-[currentdate".
I have neither found anything in the parameters of the function moduls i use nor in previous post.
Thanks!

Hi,
yes, I will try today or tomorrow to find a corresponding method in ABAP for such an byte stream operation.
Your suggestion made me thing about it and maybe I also find a good hint in "offline forms" if I cant implement it in ABAP like you did in Java. Maybe Java is more powerful than ABAP. Wanted to learn it already but could never get an understanding how these WD-Java components get transported and how the whole stuff needs to get setuped with the development environment etc... But maybe I should rethink about it, looking at all the possibilities WD-Java offeres.

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