possible to launch a search url which downloads an imaged document in PDF Format?
The currently supported way of doing this is appending a query parameter (openIfOneResult=true in 10, imageEnable=true in 9) to the end of the search URL for a given. You can then download the document in the from the Web Access doc viewer.
There currently isn't a way to tell Web Access to download an imaged document as a PDF in a URL. However, we have something similar to this in WebLink (openPDF=true parameter), so we can incorporate that functionality into Web Access in the future, based on need and demand.
Just as a reminder, if the imaged document does not already have an associated PDF electronic-document, the PDF will have to be generated on-the-fly, which will take time and will consume CPU/RAM on the Web Access server. Typically, content that is generated on-the-fly will not be written back into the repository.
There would be a struggle between customers who would like to cache the generated PDFs (for quicker response when the same document is visited multiple times), versus customers who need to minimize the repository volume size and the disk spaces on Web Access servers. For this reason, it is not a feature that can be implemented transparently without configuration efforts by the customer.
We are aware that this is a popular request, and have started some preliminary feasibility study into it. To avoid overloading the Web Access server, it will likely require some kind of offloading arrangement.