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Add pdf editing mode
Thank you DPSalphav for your feedback. We are looking at what features are most popular for our PDF support. We are also getting feedback on the usability of our controls. Can you tell me more about the problems that you are seeing with scrolling?
Thanks,
Elliot
Elliot Kirk Highlighting was a great feature in this too, but I always wished it had a "free-hand" option for documents that were older/scanned for highlighting. Text-select highlighting was great. And I second the epub function (I'll harp on this anywhere I can).
Another feature that was important was in-line definitions. The old functionality of these features was perfect and a direct port of sorts would be super useful.
Elliot Kirk As a heavy user of pdf/epub reader mode of current branch of Edge, I'm not very happy that the insider build released can only do just a few tings. It can't take notes on PDF, it can't highlight selected words, it even can't open epub files anymore without using extensions. Although I know native chrome behaves just like this, I want to say what we are building is EDGE but not another chrome, if it can't do something chrome is unable to do, few people will like it.
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Elliot
- Elliot_Kirk
It has partly got to do with how EdgeHTML/Spartan draws executes pdf/websites in one go vs how EdgeChromium views documents/html.
There has also always been a rather large problem with Chromium with the lack of utilisation of GPU acceleration for mobile devices with switchable graphics . i.e. iGPU (Intel HD 3000/4xxx) + dGPU (ATI/AMD 5xxx /6xxx etc).
Chromium keeps a "blacklist" of a lot of devices and automatically switches GPU acceleration off.
Whilst Chromium does indeed see that a switchable graphics solution is being used it however is not able to utilise the dGPU at all. via edge://gpu
If reports are needed I would be happy to assist. Basically, the scrolling (regardless of mouse scroll, touchpad and touch) is choppy, only when reading pdf files
I've also attached a demonstration video. Have a look
DPSalphav I thought since I had bought a new mouse that it was defective. I scroll up it scrolls down, I scroll down it scrolls up, recently, one left click equals about ten clicks and opens multiple windows. Some clicks just highlight everything on the screen and I'd need to click with my body and soul to get it to be precise. Even highlighting text is affected. It takes maybe about five attempts or so to highlight a portion of text correctly. There is something in the update that messed up the mouse's smoothness or fine control. My build remained the same despite the looping seemingly successful updates. I currently stopped the updates by setting my LAN to 'Set as metered' or it would have gone on and on till my data was depleted again. So now am waiting for a working solution to avail from Microsoft. Poor Manhattan mouse manufacturer cause I had to rant the way my mouse just started to misbehave recently, they promised to replace the mouse, but I now think that maybe it's actually the updates... will test tomorrow on another stable PC later and confirm.
