Description: “The PDF View setting” isn’t working. The setting is meant to toggle whether Edge saves the page of PDF document which user has closed or not. If disabled, Edge still saves the page of the PDF and opens it from where the user left it when it should open it from the start. If enabled, it works as expected.
Environment:
OS: Windows 10
Browser versions: all current channels
Tested with both, the legacy PDF viewer and the new one by Adobe.
Steps to reproduce:
Prerequisite: have the setting disabled
1. Open a multipage PDF document
2. Scroll down to arbitrary page X
3. Close the PDF document
4. Open up a PDF document with same name, or same PDF document
5. The document opens from page X when it should open from page 1.
Other details: The feature apparently uses the file name as the identifier on what is a unique/same PDF document. This causes issues in environments where a generated PDF document always has the same name, even though it is a new unique document. I’d hope that the Edge team would come up with more robust system of detecting whether it is the same PDF document or not. With limited testing I determined that the Group Policy “RestorePDFView” works as expected but it is enforced, so users cant opt out of that behaviour.
Is there a workaround for this? I haven't found one. I guess this is up to the Edge PDF viewer team to fix?
Hi, thanks for reporting this. The feature is aware of this issue and is currently working on a fix. At this time, I don't know of a workaround, but it seems the patch should be released soon.
