PDF Viewer Not Sharp

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I have built a model-driven app that has an embedded Canvas app showing invoices by using the PDF Viewer. The actual PDF files are stored in Sharepoint and they are not accessible to everybody, so I built a Flow to get the contents and pass them back to my app as a binary string.

All that works well and I can successfully see all files on my Model-Driven app. My problem is that the PDF Viewer displays them blurry and not sharp as the Sharepoint viewer (or any other PDF viewer). For example, this sample invoice viewed on my browser directly from Sharepoint:

Is displayed like this on my app:

I have been, unsuccessfully, playing with the attributes I could find to try and make this look better but nothing worked so far. I can play with the Zoom to make it more readable, but that doesn't make the PDF sharper, it just makes it bigger.

Are there any limitations as to why these PDFs display so poorly? Am I doing something wrong? Should I apply an extra conversion in my flow that sends the binary file back to my app?

Also, is there a place where I can see what the plan is with this PDF Viewer? Will it come out of the "experimental" stage?

Any feedback/help is appreciated!

Thanks!

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WarrenBelz 153,079 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi CU04101003-0

Unfortunately, that control is still experimental and there are no settings to change what you are seeing. If it does not produce what you need, it really should not be used in Production apps.

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Hi CU04101003-0,

This seems to be a limitation in the PDF Viewer as I have the control in one of my apps and the quality is not the best. You might want to include a link to open the files in browser.

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Nandit

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CU04101003-0 4 on at

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I understand. Is there a place where I could look at the future plans for this component? Because that might play a role in my decision on whether to include this in my app or not. I don't have many options really, is there any other way to display PDFs on model driven apps?

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