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vygadeka
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Nov 16, 2020

PDF note-taking enhanced with support for text comments

    Greetings Insiders,   The ability to add text comments on PDF documents is one of the features we provided for the PDF reader in legacy Microsoft Edge. We have heard feedback that some of y...
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Anonymous
Nov 18, 2020

HotCakeX 

I think in the table of contents of PDFs, there should be indications so we can see which pages contain notes/comments.

That's a great suggestion! I don't know what the feasibility of that would be (not all PDFs support having a ToC,) but I could definitely see the value in that functionality.

 

Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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Reza_Ameri-Archived
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Nov 19, 2020

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The indicator for notes could be in scroll bar , like it highlight areas where there is comment in scroll bar and user quickly move to them and also ability to click next/prev comments (like Microsoft Word comment)

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    hussain5416
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 19, 2020
    "highlight areas (when there is a comment) in scroll bar" That UI looks better than in TOC.
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    Anonymous
    Nov 19, 2020

    Reza_Ameri-Archived Are you looking for a similar UI to when you use the "Ctrl+F" functionality within Microsoft Edge?

     

    Fawkes (they/them)
    Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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      Reza_Ameri-Archived
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      Nov 20, 2020

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      Yes, you are right.

      However, we should consider it should work in a way to avoid conflict , let say we have documents with notes and we also want to find text like you mentioned. Probably, there should be different colors or different look and feel , so people would know which one is note and which one is search.

       

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      cyrribrae
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      Nov 20, 2020
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      I think I like this better than (or in addition to) TOC (and in addition to a comments pane.. but adding UI elements probably not preferred). Seeing at a glance from anywhere in the document where there are comments (and who made them/what they're for, if you can make the highlight color coded to the color of the highlight) is definitely more useful to me than simply knowing that there are comments somewhere within a general section of the entire PDF.

      Of course, it could clash with Ctrl+F functionality if it's just the exact same UI, so some differentiation would be needed.
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        Pete_FFC
        Iron Contributor
        Dec 01, 2020

        cyrribraeYes, I think it would be useful to have an indicator in the TOC of which pages in the document have comments on them. Maybe just a standard comment icon (no colour necessary). It makes sense to me because the TOC would then give me a more informative overview of the document.

         

        The ability for CTRL+F search within the document to also search within comments would be extremely useful too. 

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