Report displayed on PDF

I created a simlpe report. When I call it from the button in my form, I would like to have acrobat pop up and display it on the screen. So far, when the user clicks the button, my form creates the a pdf file with the report on it. But it does not open it. what am I missing here?
thanks everyone..

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Frank

Preview.app will not display some PDF files

Since upgrading Yosemite I have found that Preview.app will not display some PDF documents, the documents open but all the pages are blank. This is a big issue as my work involves reviewing documents that are all in the PDF format. Strangely some PDFs work properly but I haven't been able to determine any common factors among the documents that work versus those that don't work. The problem documents do open correctly in Adobe Acrobat Reader but Reader takes over viewing of PDF container fields I have in several important FileMaker Pro 13 databases. Acrobat in the FileMaker databases for me is just as much of a problem as not viewing PDFs in Preview.
After searching the forums I followed suggestion in a post to try using version 7.0 of Preview.app (the version that worked under Mavericks) but that is also showing blank pages. I have noticed that the PDFs which open as blank pages also display that way in Finder and Spotlight previews. Could this mean that I have some kind of OS level issue here and not a Preview.app issue? Perhaps Finder and Spotlight use Preview.app to generate the preview.
I have posted this in a bug report to Apple but in the meantime I would welcome any suggestions or workarounds to try.

The built-in PDF renderer has trouble with that file. You might get better results with Adobe Reader.

Can I display a PDF stored in a table on a standard screen

I have a requirement to allow a user to be able to review a returned Adobe Interactive Form before approving the form to be process and posted to FI.
I am looking to save the returned form in a ztable and then later display the form on a screen with buttons to approve or reject.
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Every solution I track down seems to fill 80% of my needs.
Suggestions?

I don't know if it will meet your requirement or not, but you can use the HTML control to display a PDF document (the Adobe plug in should happen automagically for you) - then you could have additional buttons on that screen for the actions to be performed.
To try it out, run report SAPHTML_DEMO1 (or go in via the Tcode DWDM Controls Demo) and simply paste in the directory and file name to be displayed e.g. "c:\data\demo_po.pdf" or whatever your PDF is called.
Jonathan

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