Problems displaying PDF in Portal EP7 - only able to display HTML form

Hi,
Anyone knows how to force showing of PDF based form instead of HTML form in the portal? We're currently on EP7 SPS10.
We have tested ADS in backend, meaning that travelforms show up as PDF there and we can control what to show with a switch in a table. But it doesn't seem to be picked up in the portal. Regardless of whether we set the parameter sap.xss.tra.UsePDF or not (both in the iview property Application Parameters and/or in the resource "EMPLOYEE_TRAVE_TRIP_FORM_PDF" of service "EMPLOYEE_TRAVEL_TRIPFORM") it still displays the HTML form.
Has anyone experienced this before? We're having a hard time figuring out where and how to enable PDF forms. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Hans Petter Bjørn

Hans,
We have the same problem.Did you figure out how to do this? Any info would be extremely helpful.
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