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Roadmap for PDF reader in Microsoft Edge
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.
tfeyq 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.
- Gordon770Jul 23, 2020Copper Contributor
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.