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Edge pdf text addition = massive file size increase
As of today, when I add just a small amount of text (20-30 characters) to a pdf and save, the file size increases from 66KB to 55,000KB ... never happened before. I've reported to Microsoft but they ...
Possibly the edge experimental version, try searching "edge://flags" in the URL of edge >> Search "PDF" >> Disable "New PDF Viewer". See if that works
Not truly a “fix”. I mean, it works, but the old editor has worse issues, among which:
- if you don’t put new lines manually in comments, text boxes stretch to full-page-width every time you save and re-open a pdf
- similar to the above, sometimes the highlighter decides to become full-page-width as well, and that’s not great for two-column documents
- the view lags when you scroll “slightly” fast
So, be wary. But it’s not like we have a better option…