Open PDF through forms in apps

I have a requirement where in I need to open a pdf document on click of a button. This document is a static doc for guideline/help purpose (for users accessing the form from apps). I want to know the best way to handle this. I can store the document in a table in the database but I do not know how to open/invoke it through froms in apps environment.
we are using forms 10g and are in R12.
Thanks in advance.

See your /forms/server/forms.con file. You can see that some virtual directories are defined, for instance /forms/html
AliasMatch ^/forms/html/(..*) "C:\DevSuiteHome_1/tools/web/html/$1"The physical directory is located on the Application Server.
For a single test, you could put your PDF in the physical directory, then display the document within Forms via the Web.Show_Document() built-in
Web.Show_Document('/forms/html/mydoc.pdf','_blank')You can also create new virtual directories in this file to handle your docs, for instance :
AliasMatch ^/forms/pdf/(..*) "C:\DevSuiteHome_1/tools/pdf/$1"Francois

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