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Strip the old version of Edge's PDF reader into a standalone PDF reading application
As a professional user of PDF in my design work, I would prefer to see PDF reading go away completely in Edge or as a substitute. I have frequent problems with clients who use MacOS Preview or Edge (or any of a dozen 3rd Party readers) and freak out because the PDF we sent them "doesn't look right" (e.g., missing characters, missing objects, transparent overlays missing or opaque). These viewers only support a subset of the PDF standard, which works okay for simple text but falls apart on press-grade files or important accessibility standards.
Fortunately, Windows updates no longer override Acrobat or Adobe Reader as defaults for PDF, which was loudly complained about by designers and other professional PDF users. The Edge PDF reader is a handy convenience, but it doesn't substitute for the real thing.
- Do you have any examples of those files? Deleted
- Yes,
https://helpx.adobe.com/livecycle/kb/xfa-forms-firefox-chrome.html
XFA file are not supported either, also I heard that .epub files aren't either. It would be good to just have a seperate app for PDF"S with all the features and optimzed. Edge is just a brwoser to get it done but PDF reader would be much hopeful- I think XFA could be implemented in Edge if people ask for it and they see there is a need for it from users, even though it's a proprietary architecture, it's implemented in free PDF readers, so shouldn't be a problem in terms of licensing I assume.
