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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...
I've submitted quite a bit of feedback on this through the browser itself, but the inking experience on PDFs definitely isn't up the same standard as the old Edge or any of the Microsoft applications. There's higher latency, the ink definitely comes out more jagged and less smooth, and it just feels much more cumbersome than say OneNote. Also, the lack of pen sensitivity in this browser makes it feel much less natural.
There's also bugs where I can be writing with my stylus and scrolling fine with my finger, but then sometimes my finger starts inking instead and where I try to scroll, I end up drawing long vertical lines over the PDF.
It's a real shame, because really features like inking are the few things that are and always have been totally unique to Edge.
- I completely agree - especially with regards to annotations. I maintain a copy of Legacy Edge on one of my machines for this reason.
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DRelliot90 wrote:I've submitted quite a bit of feedback on this through the browser itself, but the inking experience on PDFs definitely isn't up the same standard as the old Edge or any of the Microsoft applications. There's higher latency, the ink definitely comes out more jagged and less smooth, and it just feels much more cumbersome than say OneNote. Also, the lack of pen sensitivity in this browser makes it feel much less natural.
There's also bugs where I can be writing with my stylus and scrolling fine with my finger, but then sometimes my finger starts inking instead and where I try to scroll, I end up drawing long vertical lines over the PDF.
It's a real shame, because really features like inking are the few things that are and always have been totally unique to Edge.
Hi,
for the bug you mentioned, they have added a solution, currently available in Canary for some insiders.
HotCakeX Thanks! Whilst that is no doubt useful, I mean that when using a stylus I can ink on a PDF and then without doing anything, I can remove my pen from the screen, scroll down with my finger, and then put the pen to screen again to ink. All without disabling/enabling the ink function, so it's a pretty fluid process.
Sometimes though it's like Edge gets confused and mistakes my finger for the pen, so anything I put to the screen starts to draw.
