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Aditi_Gangwar
Microsoft
MicrosoftRoadmap for PDF reader in Microsoft Edge
Over the course of last year, we worked hard on building a powerful PDF reader that offers compatibility, reliability, and security for you and your organization.
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Aditi_Gangwar
Great improvements, but I can't understand if collaborative annotation is ever coming to Edge/OneDrive.
I am on Edge 95.0.1020.40 (Mac) and find PDF reading much improved, but integration with OneDrive drives me crazy.
If I open a file from a OneDrive-folder in the Finder, I can annotate, save or "save as..". I would prefer automatic save, but it works, although I cannot really understand what happens if another user comments on the same file at the same moment.
If I open the same file via OneDrive in the browser (which is what I normally do), I have the option of "opening it in the browser", but if I make annotations, I am then asked to save the file with a different name, which defeats the purpose of the integration with OneDrive.
This is not a problem if I work alone (I can use any desktop application), but I often need to do "collaborative annotation" on a PDF with students and colleagues.
Right now, the only half-good solution within OneDrive is converting the PDF to Word and share the new file with "commenting rights", but this solution is sub-optimal because it requires extra work, and it is easy to mess-up the file (although Word has become better and better at doing the conversion).
Or I can share the PDF on Google Drive, which offers a crude PDF viewer, but allows collaborative comments.
For students who have grown up with collaborative writing, collaborative reading/annotation would be a natural extension of their workflow: can we expect that it becomes possible in OneDrive in a foreseeable future?
Thank you in advance and keep up the great work!
Great improvements, but I can't understand if collaborative annotation is ever coming to Edge/OneDrive.
I am on Edge 95.0.1020.40 (Mac) and find PDF reading much improved, but integration with OneDrive drives me crazy.
If I open a file from a OneDrive-folder in the Finder, I can annotate, save or "save as..". I would prefer automatic save, but it works, although I cannot really understand what happens if another user comments on the same file at the same moment.
If I open the same file via OneDrive in the browser (which is what I normally do), I have the option of "opening it in the browser", but if I make annotations, I am then asked to save the file with a different name, which defeats the purpose of the integration with OneDrive.
This is not a problem if I work alone (I can use any desktop application), but I often need to do "collaborative annotation" on a PDF with students and colleagues.
Right now, the only half-good solution within OneDrive is converting the PDF to Word and share the new file with "commenting rights", but this solution is sub-optimal because it requires extra work, and it is easy to mess-up the file (although Word has become better and better at doing the conversion).
Or I can share the PDF on Google Drive, which offers a crude PDF viewer, but allows collaborative comments.
For students who have grown up with collaborative writing, collaborative reading/annotation would be a natural extension of their workflow: can we expect that it becomes possible in OneDrive in a foreseeable future?
Thank you in advance and keep up the great work!
"integration with OneDrive drives me crazy" ... "If I open the same file via OneDrive in the browser ..."
I find the same issue in Windows. Opening a PDF from Office online, I have to "Save As" rather than simply save. No such problem if I opened a local copy in Explorer (syncing with OneDrive).
I find the same issue in Windows. Opening a PDF from Office online, I have to "Save As" rather than simply save. No such problem if I opened a local copy in Explorer (syncing with OneDrive).
