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fahad730
Copper Contributor
Dec 19, 2019

PDF functionality in Edge

There is no way to highlight text, edit or make new notes. Definitely wanna see those features.
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vygadeka
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Jan 14, 2020

fahad730 yes highlight text capability is available in Canary and Dev builds by default and behind flag for Beta and Stable. Inking on PDF files is fully available. Please give it a try and let us know your thoughts. 

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    fahad730
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 14, 2020
    What about notes?
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      Neon01
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      Jan 15, 2020

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      Hello Fawkes,

       

      in addition to really missed features, where has the good old "open pdf with your standard viewer" functionality from Classic Edge gone? 

      I know I can activate the "always open pdf externally" option on content settings, but then the file is only saved to the downloads folder (instead of cache) and I have to open it manually. 

       

      I would love to see the pdf file going to the browser cache instead (like when using the built-in pdf viewer, so I don't have to delete it afterwards from the downloads folder manually) and then open automatically with my standard viewer. 

       

      Is there anything like this planned or, if not, could you please forward this to the developer team? 

       

      Thanks and best regards

       

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      vygadeka
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      Jan 15, 2020

      fahad730 If you are talking about text notes, yes, that is also planned in the PDF reader roadmap.