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Aditi_Gangwar
Microsoft
MicrosoftRoadmap for PDF reader in Microsoft Edge
Update - March 1st, 2021: We've published an updated version of this roadmap. Check out Aditi's update over here, and we encourage you to continue to drop your PDF reader feedback into the comments o...
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.
vygadekaMicrosoft
MicrosoftGordon770 understood. Thanks for the details. We are going to bring back the functionality to turn off inking by touch. Stay tuned.
Please bring back full pen, touch and mouse input separation, or at least add settings to enable this configuration: touch should always pan or select text, as it does on websites, mouse should always select text, as it does on websites, and pen should always ink - and I don't want to have to press a button first to enter inking mode, the pen should just ink.
The Windows 8 Reader app is the only program I ever used that behaved this way (not that I didn't try to find others), and I loved that. Then it was replaced with Edge Legacy, which never distinguished pen and mouse, and now Edge Legacy has been replaced with a version that doesn't distinguish pen, touch and mouse at all. Your PDF reader is getting worse in many respects with each new version.
- I used to annotate all my MBA and work files with a pen switching from highlight to ink whenever needed. This was a great feature on Edge.
I think Ink as a default is a great start but please enable highlight with the pen
Both are usefull
