The next screenshot shows a Read aloud example. It also helps auditory learners focus on the content, which makes learning much easier. Read aloud for PDF adds the convenience of listening to PDF content while carrying out other tasks that may be important to users. The next screenshot shows a note getting added to highlighted text. Users can hover over that icon to preview the comment or click on it to open and edit the note. They can type the comment and then click the check mark to save the comment.Īfter a note is added, the selected text will be highlighted, and a comment icon will appear to indicate the comment.

Selecting the Add Comment option in the menu will open a text box where users can add their comments. Users can add a note by selecting the piece of text they wish to add a note for and invoking the right-click context menu. While reading a PDF file, text notes can be added to text in the file to jot down thoughts for easy reference later. The next screenshot shows the highlight options that are available. Highlights can also be created using a pen, or keyboard. To create a highlight, the user simply needs to select the text, right-click on it, select highlights in the menu and choose the desired color. PDF reader in Microsoft Edge comes with support for adding and editing highlights. The next screenshot shows how a user can add inking to a pdf page. In addition to inking PDF files as needed, you can use color and stroke width to bring attention to different parts of the PDF file. This capability is now available in Microsoft Edge. Inking on PDF files comes in handy to take quick notes for easy reference, sign, or fill out PDF forms. The next screenshot shows the popup menu for turning on Caret mode browsing. This ability lets users easily create elements as highlights, or interact with elements as links, form fields with the keyboard. The caret can also be used to navigate through the file, or to select text by pressing Shift while moving the cursor. When caret browsing is active and the focus is on the content, users will see a blinking cursor in the PDF file. When a user presses F7 again, caret browsing is turned off. If enabled, caret browsing is available for any content opened in the browser, be it PDF files or web pages. If a user presses the F7 key anywhere in the browser, they're asked if caret browsing should be turned on. The two page view is shown in the next screenshot.Ĭaret browsing is available for PDF files opened in Microsoft Edge, which means that users can interact with PDF files using the keyboard. To change how the PDF document is being viewed, users can click the Page View button in the PDF toolbar and then choose either view they want to use. Users can change the layout of a document from a single page view to two pages that are displayed side by side. Microsoft Edge supports different views for PDF documents in our Dev and Canary channels. The next screenshot shows the navigation pane for an open document. The pane stays open for as long as needed and can be closed when the user wants to go back to reading the document. The user can then click any of the labels in the pane to navigate to that section of the document. When a user clicks the Table of contents icon, a navigation pane that shows a list of the labeled sections and subsections in the PDF document is shown. Table of contents lets users easily navigate through PDF documents that have a table of contents. The next screenshot shows the PDF reader toolbar. This section gives an overview of some important functions. They can be accessed through a pin-able toolbar at the top of PDF content. The PDF reader, built into Microsoft Edge, comes with the basic reading and navigation features, as Zoom, Rotate, Fit to page/width, jump to page, and search, among others.

Documentation related to Accessibility scenarios that currently aren't supported can be found on the Microsoft Accessibility Conformance Reports blog.XML Forms Architecture (XFA), is a legacy format of forms that isn't supported in Microsoft Edge.Note the following constraints for the current PDF reader: View Information Rights Management (IRM) protected files View Microsoft Purview Information Protection protected files across business tenants

View Microsoft Purview Information Protection protected files in the same business tenant View and print local, online, and embedded PDF files The following table shows which channels and versions of Microsoft Edge support each PDF reader feature. This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later.

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