It's not quite clear to me what you are after, and I have no claim to being an expert. It _sound_ like you are wanting the doc preview of a PDF? The generated-preview is a flash object - swf - and I'm not sure what you can do with that, if anything. Anyway, pretty sure that the document (e.g. PDF) as well as the flash-preview and the thumbnail are all stored in the repository. You should be able to track it via the node-browser… "alfresco" interface, Administration console, Node browser… workspace:://SpacesStore/buncha-numbers-and-letters/… down to "children" and drill down to the space/site the doc in question is… select the document… as children nodes there are "doclib" and "webpreview". Dunno if that helps you.