Apr 08 2019 09:43 AM - edited Apr 08 2019 09:46 AM
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!)
Apr 08 2019 09:47 AM
Apr 08 2019 10:14 AM
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
Apr 08 2019 10:23 AM
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
Apr 08 2019 10:31 AM
Apr 08 2019 11:28 AM
@DPSalphav yes your observation is right. PDF scrolling is not as great as it is on current Microsoft Edge. We are working on making the PDF experience more fluid.
Apr 09 2019 01:07 AM
@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.
Apr 09 2019 10:25 AM
@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.
Apr 09 2019 03:12 PM
Apr 09 2019 03:56 PM
Apr 09 2019 09:15 PM
Thanks everyone for the feedback. We are working on making the PDF scrolling experience as snappy as it is in current version and also on getting some of the cool editing features back. Please stay tuned. Till then current version of Microsoft Edge on your machine can be your go-to PDF reader.
Apr 21 2019 01:40 AM
Apr 24 2019 01:12 AM
@DPSalphav +1 from me on the PDF editing tools. I love this feature in the current Edge browser!
May 08 2019 06:00 AM
@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.
May 08 2019 06:37 AM
May 08 2019 06:56 AM
@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.