The PDFViewer is not showing the content while downloading is possible - sapui5

I am trying to use a PDFViewer in a SAPUI5 application, something like the following sample app.
When I try to use this component in Google chrome it will not load the data, however it is possible to download the PDF itself and it shows the url works and file is available.
If I open it in Firefox or IE it works!

I discussed the problem here with SAP OpenUI5 team. Finally we understood the problem is not the UI5 library and the problem is inside of our ABAP implementation that provides download link for the PDF file from SAP Document Management System (SAP DMS).
We finally found the solution and discovered why the pdf that we try to show from our SAP DMS is downloadable while it is not shown in the pdf viewer inside the modern browsers like Chrome or Firefox.
The source for the solution can find here.
The below two changes are different from normal implementation that can be found in most of the tutorials in the internet:
The header value must be changed to Inline;filename= instead of outline;filename.
Call the method /IWBEP/IF_MGW_CONV_SRV_RUNTIME=>Set_header to set the header.
Finally we have the following ABAP code in SAP systems for downloading files form document management system (SAP DMS).
"Logic for Download the files from Document Managmenet System
DATA: ls_lheader TYPE ihttpnvp,
ls_stream TYPE ty_s_media_resource,
ls_entity TYPE zgw_odata_document_file.
CONSTANTS: lc_headername TYPE string VALUE 'Content-Disposition',
lc_headervalue1 TYPE string VALUE 'inline; filename="',
lc_headervalue2 TYPE string VALUE '";'.
* "Get the name of the Entity
DATA(lv_entity_name) = io_tech_request_context->get_entity_type_name( ).
CASE lv_entity_name.
WHEN 'DocumentFile'.
DATA(lo_document_file) = NEW zcl_gw_odata_document_file( ).
lo_document_file->read_stream(
EXPORTING
it_key_tab = it_key_tab
IMPORTING
es_stream = ls_entity ).
ls_lheader-name = lc_headername.
ls_entity-file_name = escape( val = ls_entity-file_name format = cl_abap_format=>e_url ).
ls_lheader-value = lc_headervalue1 && ls_entity-file_name && lc_headervalue2 .
set_header( is_header = ls_lheader ).
ls_stream-mime_type = ls_entity-mimetype.
ls_stream-value = ls_entity-binfile.
copy_data_to_ref( EXPORTING is_data = ls_stream
CHANGING cr_data = er_stream ).
WHEN OTHERS.
ENDCASE.

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iTextSharp insert image PushbuttonField not working

I have searched and searched and cannot find the answer to my problem. I've tried many different approaches in my code, but I've hit a wall and I'm not sure where to go from here. I seem to be wanting to do the same thing as these two threads:
Trying to insert an image into a pdf‏ in c#
Add image in an existing PDF with itextsharp
They are very similar and the answer is the same. However, when I use that exact code, the result is a PDF without an image. Here is my code:
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I have tried to rule out all of the obvious things. My path to the image is correct, the field is indeed a PushbuttonField when I read the existing PDF field and get the field type. If I open the PDF in Adobe Reader and click on the placeholder for the image, it allows me to pick a file from my PC. When I place an image in the file, save, and then read in that PDF, I can then change my code to this:
imageField.ProportionalIcon = false;
And now all of sudden the image is stretched on the saved copy. So I see that it is changing this part but this is when I enter the image manually in Adobe Reader. When I read in the field after I set that image in Adobe Reader and it shows correctly, I see a couple interesting things. The field.Image property IS NULL and the field.IconReference is NOT NULL. When I use the original code to try and insert the image, it is reversed, where Image is NOT NULL but IconReference IS NULL
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!!
EDIT 1: Ok so I didn't see it the first time, but I went back and checked more thoroughly and I did find that key. Here it is:
Several things are at play here.
Usage Rights:
The PDF is digitally signed with a private key owned by Adobe.
You can see this using RUPS here (in your screen shot you didn't go deep enough):
This has two implications:
The signature unlocks special permissions in Adobe Reader, such as the permission to save a filled out form locally.
Making any changes to the original PDF breaks the signature and removes the special permissions leading to an ugly error message in Adobe Reader.
This functionality is deprecated in (and even removed from) PDF 2.0. It's old technology that became obsolete with the emergence of PDF viewers other than Adobe Reader.
My suggestion: remove the usage rights to avoid breaking the signature. See the FAQ entry "Why do I get an error saying that "use of extended features is no longer available"?" iText 7 / iText 5
This is the iText 7 code:
public void removeUsageRights(PdfDocument pdfDoc) {
PdfDictionary perms = pdfDoc.getCatalog().getPdfObject().getAsDictionary(PdfName.Perms);
if (perms == null) {
return;
}
perms.remove(new PdfName("UR"));
perms.remove(PdfName.UR3);
if (perms.size() == 0) {
pdfDoc.getCatalog().remove(PdfName.Perms);
}
}
This is the iText 5 code:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(old_file);
if (reader.hasUsageRights()) {
reader.removeUsageRights();
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(new_file));
stamper.close();
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This is the iText 5 answer.
Hybrid Form:
If you click on the /AcroForm entry, you see this:
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In other words: the same form description is added twice inside. You are changing a button in one form (the AcroForm part), but not in the other (the XFA form) and that leads to inconsistencies.
XFA has been deprecated in PDF 2.0 because there weren't many vendors supporting that technology. It's kind of frustrating to be confronted with forms that use deprecated technology.
My suggestion: I would remove the XFA part. See the FAQ entry "Is it safe to remove XFA?" iText 5 / iText 7
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Xpages PDF creation using the XMLWorker class

Using SSJS I've successfully created a PDF using the simple HTML parser that comes with iText but the simple HTML parser doesn't respect CSS and is very limited. I downloaded the XMLWorker class from the iText site and have tried to use that instead but my knowledge of working out how to call Java packages is too limited. All the examples I can find use Java and refer to the classes directly, eg.
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Rob,
seriously, don't try to do that in SSJS. iText is all Java, if you try to mangle with it in a different language it will stress you out. Create a wrapper class that has a method that takes an OutputStream and whatever data (Document, View etc) you need. Obtain the OutputStream in your SSJS and call the function. Look for the XAgent XSnippet on OpenNTF and my blog series (the last two are missing - bear with me) on PDF creation.
One word of caution: iText is GPL, so you either GPL your software too, buy a commercial iText license or look for alternatives like Apache PDFBox or Apache FOP. Ah the second caution: HTML to PDF is a Pita. You could look at a commercial tool like e.g. from Swing software (or change your approach)

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I'm trying to generate a .pdf file using mPDF in a Zend Framework application, from the output of the action.
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%PDF-1.4
%âãÃÓ
Sometimes PHP error notices are found at the top of the file.
Source : mpdf forum IanBack's answer

QBO Queries and SpecifyOperatorOption

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