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!)

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.

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.

PDF editing was one of the cool features in the original Edge...this feature needs to arrive in Edge chromium

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.

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Elliot Kirk
Silver Contributor
Apr 08, 2019
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
- rsfarris
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 09, 2019
  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
    Silver Contributor
    Apr 09, 2019
    Thank you rsfarris for this feedback. I will let the PDF team know. vygadeka, you are still following this thread, right?
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  Apr 09, 2019
  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.
  - Elliot Kirk
    Silver Contributor
    Apr 09, 2019
    Deleted Thank you for your feedback.
    
    Elliot
- VonCrisp
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 08, 2019
  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.
felipecarboneri
Brass Contributor
Apr 08, 2019
I have this problem too @DPSSalphav.
- DPSalphav
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 08, 2019
  felipecarboneri
  legit 5 fps when scrolling
  felipecarboneri wrote:
  I have this problem too @DPSSalphav.

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