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Elliot Kirk
Nov 19, 2019Former Employee
PDF Inking on Microsoft Edge
Using a digital pen or touch to write directly on PDF files has been one of the top feature asks from Microsoft Edge insiders. We are pleased to announce that inking mode for PDF files has rolled out...
smithy_dll
Nov 26, 2019Copper Contributor
This is not even basic, now the third PDF reader Microsoft are launching Since Windows 8. It took until 1803 to get basic features in the Spartan Edge PDF reader.
List of issues:
Cannot select ink colour
Cannot select ink stroke width
Cannot use surface pen eraser, a device Microsoft charges $130 for
Cannot turn off responding touch ink and only use the pen
There are no highlighter pens like OneNote
Ink colour is low res while pen is down
Ink stroke lags pen position, doesn't appear to use Windows Ink
Other issues:
Cannot turn continuous scrolling off for touch screen left-right swiping between pages.
Cannot scrub through pages using touch screen.
List of issues:
Cannot select ink colour
Cannot select ink stroke width
Cannot use surface pen eraser, a device Microsoft charges $130 for
Cannot turn off responding touch ink and only use the pen
There are no highlighter pens like OneNote
Ink colour is low res while pen is down
Ink stroke lags pen position, doesn't appear to use Windows Ink
Other issues:
Cannot turn continuous scrolling off for touch screen left-right swiping between pages.
Cannot scrub through pages using touch screen.