Microsoft details its roadmap for the PDF reader in Edge

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Today, Microsoft published an update to its roadmap for the PDF reader in its Edge browser. Edge already does more for PDFs than most other browsers, offering a wide array of inking and editing capabilities, but there's more on the way. First, the company outlined the features that are most requested:

• Fill PDF forms
  
• Ink on PDF files with colors and stroke width of your choice
  
• Create highlights to [draw] attention to different parts of the file
  
• View PDFs in Dark mode
  
• Open Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Information Rights Management (IRM) protected PDF and view permissions
  
• Accessibility support including keyboard accessibility, screen reader support, and capability to view PDFs in high contrast mode
  
• Read Aloud (available in Canary)
  

Of course, with those being the top-requested features, that doesn't necessary mean that the team is working on them. One of the things that it's working on, and has been for a long time, is smooth scrolling. This is something that was available in Edge Legacy and was promised for Edge Chromium since the beginning.
 
The team is also working on supporting a table of contents, which can be used to view and navigate through a PDF. In the editing department, there's going to be a highlight mode that you can use by selecting text to highlight it, and you'll be able to add text notes to a PDF file. Support for digital signatures is on the way as well.

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