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MicrosoftRoadmap for PDF reader in Microsoft Edge
Hello Aditi_Gangwar
MS Edge doesnt recognize active pen on Surface devices. It would be fine to INK with pen and scrolling with fingers like in MS Whiteboard.
Thanks!
Filip
Filip Paďourek What's shocking is that on a Microsoft computer (Surface Book 2) using a Microsoft Pen, inking with Edge is unusable. The most natural use of a pen -- to mark up a document -- and NOTHING on the roadmap mentions making Edge work with a pen. I tried the newly touted highlighting feature using a pen. Nothing happens. Out of frustration, I tried a double-tap, and some random bit of the document was selected (I think closer to where I had my hand than where the tip of the pen was). No joy there. Tried dragging the pen again -- nothing.
I think Filip Paďourek was admirably polite -- the lack of pen support on a pen-enabled Microsoft machine boggles the mind.
vygadekatfeyq highlighter support for Pen is coming pretty soon (Edge version 86). We are also working on fixing some of the ink quality issues. I hope that would solve some of these concerns with supporting Pen as good as the previous version of Edge.
vygadeka This is great news. The other thing that would be wonderful is if scrolling with your finger was fixed. Currently you can't turn off ink-with-finger. And scrolling is with two fingers only, which also does document zoom - which makes a mess of working in a multipage document. If that and the ink quality issues were fixed, I would stop using the old Edge for editing my PDF's.
- vygadeka
Filip Paďourek it is currently in the backlog to add a manual switch to turn on/off inking with touch. Currently, we have enabled panning/scrolling/zooming with two fingers while inking. You can also use the margins to scroll. Let me know if that helps.
-Vyankatesh Gadekar
Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
vygadeka Thanks! While this works, it is not optimal - as you often end up changing the zoom as it is rather difficult to keep your fingers the same separation. The old Edge allows single finger scroll, which means that you can move quickly through documents in a way that is not possible with the new edge. Actually, this is the only reason I keep using the old edge for PDF mark up.
I am often reading research PDF's and marking them up. Length is 20-200 pages. I need to be able to quickly read through them, sometimes stopping for a careful read of 3 or 4 pages. And then resume scanning.
When I have my pen I pretty much *never* use my finger to ink.
