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Add pdf editing mode
Apprantly, Microsoft Edge (old one) was my pdf reader/editor. It had great features such as adding notes, drawing on it. However, this chronium version do not have those. I really hope Microsoft adds these features back. Also, I wish you can add text boxes on pdf.
(P.S scrolling on chronium edge is laggy and not smooth at all!)
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Try to edit pdf text with a free https://www.compdf.com/demo/webviewer.
PDF markup is the only reason I use the old Edge browser. Looking forward to it being added to Chrome Edge.
DPSalphav wrote:Apprantly, Microsoft Edge (old one) was my pdf reader/editor. It had great features such as adding notes, drawing on it. However, this chronium version do not have those. I really hope Microsoft adds these features back. Also, I wish you can add text boxes on pdf.
(P.S scrolling on chronium edge is laggy and not smooth at all!)
I concur, Microsoft, please add in an updated version if you could in the next following Edge updates
- perhaps call it Markup, and please be sure to include the following
- PDF editing/viewing
- PPT editing/viewing
- MSOffice docs editing/viewing
- Surface Stylus Support
- Surface Dial Support
- Page Indexing
- and obviously, quick-save for exporting/sharing
- +1 for the PDF editing tools. Edge has always been my go to PDF editor. This would be a deal breaker without these tools.
DPSalphav I'm with you and the others on this one. In my view, the current Edge is boss over any PDF tool in my arsenal! Combined with OneNote and the reading 'voice/speech' ability nothing is more useful for real productivity on a browser. I use it for my varsity work as I'm an online student, marking up PDFs, eBooks, and capturing progress for weekly journals, it's so incredible and invaluable for my business-work and for research, that is when the speech functions just make it a Swiss-army knife for consuming digital data. This time though I wish Microsoft would fuse OneNote and Edge so that there is no switching of modes and multiple actions before one can save the notes and when switching back to browsing, the markup would disappear!? Ideally it should be fluid and should associate with the link automatically so that I don't really need to save anything, the metadata for the markup can sync to OneDrive, and at the flick of one button I'd be able to turn off the markup or bring it back and continue scrolling the document or open other tabs without switching between 'browser' and 'notepad' modes... well, that's how'd imagine this better or easier to use and implement.
- Same problem here. No Markup tools, and jerky scrolling on Canary 134
davequail I am not too sure of the cause of mouse jerkiness, but if you're a Windows 10 OS Insider too, I think its emanating from the recent Windows build updates. My reasoning is based on the fact that I experience this behavior across all applications, not only the Edge preview application... I can bet five bucks its the Windows OS (Insider builds) updates.
- Yes I am a Windows Insider as well. You could very well be correct.
- Low prio for me.
- PDF editing was one of the cool features in the original Edge...this feature needs to arrive in Edge chromium
vygadekaMicrosoft
Thanks everyone for the feedback. We are working on making the PDF scrolling experience as snappy as it is in current version and also on getting some of the cool editing features back. Please stay tuned. Till then current version of Microsoft Edge on your machine can be your go-to PDF reader.
