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If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

by llampx 7y ago

iamaelephant 7y ago
None of the touch scrolling or gestures are as smooth as the old Edge, it's a real shame.
microtheo 7y ago
You're not wrong, but it is much faster than old edge and just as nicely integrated with touch. I say it's a big upgrade! :)
iotku 7y ago
Yeah, I threw a sizeable PDF (800MB textbook) at it and it's choking pretty hard compared to old Edge to the point where it's barely usable. Not a deal breaker for me because I don't have a touch screen and use an external PDF reader (sumatraPDF), but if I was using edge for heavy PDFs I would be rather disappointed Seems fine for PDFs that are a bit less extreme, but nowhere near as smooth as old edge.
- jandrese 7y ago
  That's a problem the Firefox PDF viewer frequently suffers from as well. Give it a big complex PDF and it can choke very hard on stuff that Acrobat reader or xpdf open in under a second.
- chirau 7y ago
  800MB textbook??? What kind of textbook is that and how many pages does it have? Or page dimension/image resolution??? That is a very very large size for a pdf.
  - iotku 7y ago
    It's certainly not a typical PDF, but it's 1400 page physics textbook which seem to all be excessively large and unoptimized. Originally it was completely uncroped, and OCRing it seems to have grown it even larger. Not too familiar with details with PDFs but I suspect it's just a huge DPI render (maybe designed to go towards being printed) that could probably be reduced significantly if it was designed for normal consumption. All things considered it's amazing it works at all, but old Edge handled it a lot smoother.
wlesieutre 7y ago
Extra sad because Microsoft briefly had their own PDF program (Reader) in Windows 8, but removed it in favor of making Edge the default program for opening PDFs.
- progfix 7y ago
  Yeah, it was briefly on Windows 10 as well, it was my favourite PDF reader and now it's gone. Good job Microsoft.
  - agumonkey 7y ago
    Imagine if everything that was shelved due to marketing policies were compiled into a disc.
    - gpvos 7y ago
      And opensourced.
      - olyjohn 7y ago
        Microsoft <3 Open Source. I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
  - balls187 7y ago
    Is this what you are referring to? https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5 https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5
- balls187 7y ago
  Are you sure it's gone? I just checked the Microsoft App Store and Reader is available. https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5 https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5 Funny because with Windows Ink, I loved Edge's PDF abilities. Made my life so much easier.
  - 7y ago
dtrailin 7y ago
I think generally scrolling is less smooth than in the old edge. That was one thing they got right and hopefully we'll see improvements in this area upstream in chromium.
- The_rationalist 7y ago
  They are working on it.
spookyuser 7y ago
I am so sad about the fact that Edge can no longer read epubs and seems to have (so far) sub par pdf reading. It's been my go to pdf reader for a while now and I love the way it scrolls. It is so smooth - just like preview on a mac. I haven't found anything else that comes close to edge for the smoothness of its pdf reading on windows, so I will definitely be holding out on this update for as long as I can. I don't really need two chromium based browsers on my PC anyway.
- scrollaway 7y ago
  Epubs should really be readable by web browsers. They're HTML, essentially.
- endothrowho333 7y ago
  Have you found any good ePub reader? Zathura and Calibre are insanely bloated. FBreader is just no. Emacs works, but has similar functionality to FBreader.
  - spookyuser 7y ago
    Yeah it's amazing how incredible Calibre is at organising books but terrible it is at displaying them. As a matter of fact though, I think I have found a very good epub reader which I don't see mentioned very much called Cover. It is ridiculously smooth at displaying epubs, maybe even more so than edge. I was reading an epub with tons of images and I could swipe left and right between pages multiple times without waiting a second for reflow, almost felt like swiping a pdf. Whereas on all those other apps the book was blurred and did not scale how I would expect it to, to fill the screen. On cover everything is displayed how I think it should be displayed without changing anything. So yeah, cover A+ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/cover-comic-reader/9wzdncrfj9w7 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/cover-comic-reader/9wzdncr...
    - rym_ 7y ago
      Agreed at Calibre! Ihave the same qualms with EPUBReader in FF, it does not get close to what edge was capable of. I'll take a look at cover at home as I sadly cannot install it at work.

If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

by llampx 7y ago

If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

iamaelephant 7y ago

None of the touch scrolling or gestures are as smooth as the old Edge, it's a real shame.

microtheo 7y ago

You're not wrong, but it is much faster than old edge and just as nicely integrated with touch. I say it's a big upgrade! :)

iotku 7y ago

Yeah, I threw a sizeable PDF (800MB textbook) at it and it's choking pretty hard compared to old Edge to the point where it's barely usable. Not a deal breaker for me because I don't have a touch screen and use an external PDF reader (sumatraPDF), but if I was using edge for heavy PDFs I would be rather disappointed Seems fine for PDFs that are a bit less extreme, but nowhere near as smooth as old edge.

jandrese 7y ago
That's a problem the Firefox PDF viewer frequently suffers from as well. Give it a big complex PDF and it can choke very hard on stuff that Acrobat reader or xpdf open in under a second.
chirau 7y ago
800MB textbook??? What kind of textbook is that and how many pages does it have? Or page dimension/image resolution??? That is a very very large size for a pdf.
- iotku 7y ago
  It's certainly not a typical PDF, but it's 1400 page physics textbook which seem to all be excessively large and unoptimized. Originally it was completely uncroped, and OCRing it seems to have grown it even larger. Not too familiar with details with PDFs but I suspect it's just a huge DPI render (maybe designed to go towards being printed) that could probably be reduced significantly if it was designed for normal consumption. All things considered it's amazing it works at all, but old Edge handled it a lot smoother.

wlesieutre 7y ago

Extra sad because Microsoft briefly had their own PDF program (Reader) in Windows 8, but removed it in favor of making Edge the default program for opening PDFs.

progfix 7y ago
Yeah, it was briefly on Windows 10 as well, it was my favourite PDF reader and now it's gone. Good job Microsoft.
- agumonkey 7y ago
  Imagine if everything that was shelved due to marketing policies were compiled into a disc.
  - gpvos 7y ago
    And opensourced.
    - olyjohn 7y ago
      Microsoft <3 Open Source. I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
- balls187 7y ago
  Is this what you are referring to? https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5 https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5
balls187 7y ago
Are you sure it's gone? I just checked the Microsoft App Store and Reader is available. https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5 https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFHWG5 Funny because with Windows Ink, I loved Edge's PDF abilities. Made my life so much easier.
- 7y ago

dtrailin 7y ago

I think generally scrolling is less smooth than in the old edge. That was one thing they got right and hopefully we'll see improvements in this area upstream in chromium.

The_rationalist 7y ago
They are working on it.

spookyuser 7y ago

I am so sad about the fact that Edge can no longer read epubs and seems to have (so far) sub par pdf reading. It's been my go to pdf reader for a while now and I love the way it scrolls. It is so smooth - just like preview on a mac. I haven't found anything else that comes close to edge for the smoothness of its pdf reading on windows, so I will definitely be holding out on this update for as long as I can. I don't really need two chromium based browsers on my PC anyway.

scrollaway 7y ago
Epubs should really be readable by web browsers. They're HTML, essentially.
endothrowho333 7y ago
Have you found any good ePub reader? Zathura and Calibre are insanely bloated. FBreader is just no. Emacs works, but has similar functionality to FBreader.
- spookyuser 7y ago
  Yeah it's amazing how incredible Calibre is at organising books but terrible it is at displaying them. As a matter of fact though, I think I have found a very good epub reader which I don't see mentioned very much called Cover. It is ridiculously smooth at displaying epubs, maybe even more so than edge. I was reading an epub with tons of images and I could swipe left and right between pages multiple times without waiting a second for reflow, almost felt like swiping a pdf. Whereas on all those other apps the book was blurred and did not scale how I would expect it to, to fill the screen. On cover everything is displayed how I think it should be displayed without changing anything. So yeah, cover A+ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/cover-comic-reader/9wzdncrfj9w7 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/cover-comic-reader/9wzdncr...
  - rym_ 7y ago
    Agreed at Calibre! Ihave the same qualms with EPUBReader in FF, it does not get close to what edge was capable of. I'll take a look at cover at home as I sadly cannot install it at work.