Saving Adobe Interactive Form

I have a web dynpro application opens an interactive form and once a user fills it out it creates an activity on the crm backend. That works fine.
What I'd like to do is take the adobe form and attach it to the newly created activity. I am able to attach other documents to the activity, but not the .pdf from the interactive form.
The method I use to attach documents takes a context element called pdfObject and passes it to the backend as a byte arry. The problem is, only some data is coming thru.
I'm thinking that it might only be passing the data or the form template, but not both in a .pdf format.
Anyway, if anyone knows of a way to take a interative form and get it into a byte array, please help.
Thanks,
Tom

Markus,
   You are correct the pdfObject is the binary context that is assigned to the pdfSource property. The form works great for filling out and calling the ABAP rfc. The problem is that I tried saving the pdfObject element, in the web dynpro application, to file and it does not save in a readable pdf format. If I go into the form manually and save it as a pdf it works ok. I also compared the size of the pdfObject and the saved pdf and the saved pdf is much bigger. This leads me to believe that the binary stored in pdfObject is not a pdf, but maybe the data from the pdf.
   I guess the question really is, What is pdfSource holding? Is it the data less the template,all the pdf data...
    Anyway, I image someone has tried to save an interactive form to file via web dynpro. Let me know if you have any hints for me, or have tried something similar.
Regards,
I guess the context element pdfObject is the value you assigned to the pdfSource property of the InteractiveForm UI element. And you probably also made it of a 'binary' type in the Context. Can you please check this?

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