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Roadmap for PDF reader in Microsoft Edge
Hello, and thanks for all the work. The PDF is becoming more and more useful. Here go my suggestions:
Links and navigation
When you dive into a link inside a PDF you are transported to a very different place, and there is no way to go back to where you were. Edge's navigation arrows don't work within a PDF document. This seriously derails your train of thought when you're reading documentation.
Some obvious back-forth navigation options should be offered (if they exist, I haven't found them). I think Edge's navigation arrows would do just fine. Like in any web page, click "back" until you exit the site, or "forward" if you want, or right-click into history.
PDFs in collections
You can star as a favorite a local file opened by PDF reader, but you cannot add it to a collection.
White space around text
When you are reading a document on a PDF reader, generally you don't care about page composition. Page breaks, columns and margins are nuisances.
- The zoom to page/width button should also cycle through "zoom to visible". When zoomed to visible, not only left/right margins, but also up/down should be shaved off, and the separation between pages reduced to give the document more continuity.
- I know there is no failproof way to reflow text in a PDF, but maybe column detection is not that complicated, and the "zoom to visible" setting could snake on pages with columns.
- I would be very grateful if EPUB reader was resurrected, but hey.
Icons
Really, how many current users have ever seen a 3.5" floppy disk? I almost feel insulted when I recognize the disk+pen icon as "save as" (only I don't, because it brings back fond memories of my Amiga 500, over 30 years ago).
Separate Application
As a system PDF file reader, it would be nice if the PDF reader opened in its dedicated window. The PDF reader should be accessible as a PWA, and maybe given a File-Open option with history.
Thanks for reading.
I noticed that scrolling change behaviour in Edge if you use Page Up/Page Down. Then you will have Single Page View. Change back to scroll by hitting the spacebar or SHIFT+spacebar