Roadmap for PDF reader in Microsoft Edge

Aditi_Gangwar  Last week I migrated entirely from using the PDF reader from old Edge to the new. I have increasingly been relying on the PDF reader in Edge and have abandoned three other PDF readers installed on my system. One of my wish is the ability for the PDF reader to handle georeferenced map objects such as exists in Adobe reader. I understand that I may be a minority with this wish but a wish is just a wish.

You are doing a great job.

Aditi_Gangwar   there is no option to send pdf as outlook email (attached pdf to outlook )

Aditi_Gangwar    some pdf file saved as html not pdf like oracle bi publisher reports

if possible to give us option to use adobe reader in EDGE browser like IE

Aditi_Gangwar,

For inking in .pdfs, please bring over more of the tools in the Windows inking toolsets.  For example, the ruler, protractor, lasso tool, etc.

Thanks,

-Robert

你好，为了实现PDF页面的大声朗读，我下载了Microsoft Edge Beta版，而我的朗读体验却十分糟糕，具体有以下几点：

1.在朗读时，先跳到文末朗读页码；

2.在使用朗读功能时，屏幕上方的暂停键或上/下一段都无法使用，必须在页面右键单击才可以实现暂停，（或者，直接关掉朗读功能也可以实现）；

3.在使用朗读功能时，朗读效果，会卡，会出现声音和凸显的字完全不一样的情况。哦，简直无法想象；

4.在使用朗读功能时，无法使用绘制功能，这对于每一次做笔记都意味着需要关闭一次朗读功能；

5.在使用朗读功能时，PDF页面会全部变灰色，而正在读的内容是一个黑色，没有丝毫舒适感；

6.如果PDF可以沉浸式阅读就更完美了。

另外提一点，网页的共享，可以增加QQ好友，QQ空间等一系列方向吗，目前只可以对联系人共享，或者是通过蓝牙/WLAN实现。

Aditi_Gangwar   What about support for attachments within PDF files?

Aditi_Gangwar 

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. 

Aditi_Gangwar 

Thank you to the whole Edge team for their work towards the ultimate modern browser. The rate of development since moving to Chromium has been impressive.

The only reason I still have old Edge on my machines is for PDF support. I use my Surface Pro and Surface Pen for making notes in PDF documents and the new Edge is not yet meeting my needs. 

In particular the new Edge is missing:

1.  Disabling Continuous Scrolling - I want to be able to swipe once to get to the next page and not have to manually position each page.

2. Disabling finger ink input - I want to be able to use my finger to scroll and use the pen to write.

I see that disabling ink is on the road map, but I don't see an option for disabling continuous scrolling. Please add this to the list so I can get rid of the old Edge and move entirely to new Edge.

Thanks again for all of your efforts and for this opportunity to give feedback.

Aditi_Gangwar A bit disappointed that plans for including the view pages side-by-side option and an option to disable continuous scrolling are missing.