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Vyankatesh_Gadekar
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Aug 27, 2020

Highlighter tool for PDFs: Now with pen support

  Greetings, Microsoft Edge Insiders!   We’ve heard that being able to highlight content in PDFs is important to you, so we rolled out highlighter support in Microsoft Edge version 85. Now, we’...
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ajasnz
Brass Contributor
Aug 28, 2020

Looks good! Just a couple of notes,

The highlighting appears a bit blocky (see picture), is there any fix planned for this?

Also when erasing there should be a toggle for erasing all highlighting done in that action (current default) or only unhighlighting one word at a time.

 

  • Neil_Hunter's avatar
    Neil_Hunter
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 29, 2020

    ajasnz I am in agreement here. The original highlighting function in the Microsoft search browser was much better than current state.

     

    This was the primary reason I favored MS over Google.

     

    Since this has function has been disabled, I have mostly stopped using the MS product.

     

    I am happy to see improvements on the way.

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    Vyankatesh_Gadekar
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    Aug 30, 2020

    ajasnz yes the fix for the blocky highlights is underway to make the experience a little better. Please stay tuned !! Eraser functionality for erasing the highlights letter by letter is in the roadmap for sure. Thanks for the feedback.