![]() Many people already use a subscription service like DocuSign to send a validated signature over the Internet. While you can use Windows 10’s inking capabilities to sign a PDF via the Edge browser, it’s still a bit vague where such markings fit into the digital signature realm. If you’ve ever had to fill out a PDF, print it, sign it with a pen, and then scan and email it, you know why digital signatures are so much more convenient. Edge, Windows Ink, and digital signatures in PDFs And that’s where Edge’s new PDF capabilities become even more interesting. With a pen or a finger, you can draw whatever you’d like on a PDF form-even ink your signature. Just as in Office documents, Cortana is ready to jump in and assist.īut let’s jump back to one of the more powerful capabilities within Edge’s markup tools: inking. That pulls up the right-hand sidebar where Cortana can provide you with definitions, shopping advice, and more. Of course, once you highlight a word, you can ask Cortana about it, too. Finally, Sticky Notes have become truly useful! Highlight a word or phrase, right-click, select the Note icon when the toolbar pops up, and you can annotate the PDF with a Sticky Note that collapses into a small rectangular icon when closed. I’ve always looked down my nose at Sticky Notes, simply because they squat obstinately on your desktop, refusing to really do anything until you banish them. You can automatically highlight a word in whatever color you choose (no inking required) add a Sticky Note, or look up the word using Cortana.įinally, Sticky Notes lives up to its promise. There’s even more cool markup tools to Edge’s PDF capabilities, which will come to light when you highlight and right-click a word on a PDF. If you have a pen, you can write, draw, or highlight text on the PDF document, or a dedicated button allows you to toggle finger-writing capabilities. That icon appears to the upper right, within the browser itself, right next to the Hub icon that stores your Favorites bookmarks and more. ![]() Just as with a webpage, you can unlock the markup capabilities by tapping the “pen” (otherwise known as the “Add Notes” icon) within the browser. (Adding text outside of a field doesn’t seem to be an option, however.) If you lack a pen, you can use a finger. Microsoft’s markup tools within Edge allow you to draw, highlight, or otherwise annotate a document. In the Fall Creators Update, however, Microsoft has extended markup capabilities to PDF files as well. Technically, you’ve been able to mark up a webpage ever since Windows Ink capabilities were introduced more than a year ago. The ability to annotate or mark up a PDF with a digital pen is probably the most subtle yet potent feature of Edge’s new PDF capabilities. One area it could improve, though, is beginning the narration at a user-indicated location, rather than beginning at the top of the document and then going line-by-line down the page. As it does with its ebook capabilities, Microsoft’s Edge browser offers the ability to read the PDF aloud. In assistive technologies, though, Edge redeems itself. Microsoft’s narrator can read a PDF document aloud, something rival browsers can’t do. Mozilla’s browser offers a wealth of options to format the PDF to the proper size on your screen, and also includes a sidebar with outline/table-of-contents options, plus any attachments that the PDF includes. If you’re looking for a browser with superior PDF manipulation, it’s here that Firefox climbs to the top. Unfortunately, using Bing and Google, I couldn’t find a single example of a PDF available on the Web with a defined table of contents. In this example, Edge merely opens it as a generic PDF. ![]() Keep in mind, though, that the PDF has to be specially formatted to define a table of contents for that sidebar to open. Microsoft also touts its ability to open a separate table-of-contents sidebar next to the main PDF page, allowing you to navigate, step-by-step, through a document. Microsoft offers a small set of tools within Edge to lay out a document with either one or two pages visible. Edge goes further, however, offering you the choice of using your screen to display two PDF pages right next to each other. Other browsers, such as Chrome, simply allow you to fit the document to the page and rotate it-which Edge does as well. A series of icons to the upper right indicate what Edge allows you to do with a document: fit it to the available screen, zoom in and out, rotate it, and more. Tap a PDF within Edge, and a small toolbar slides down from the top of the page, revealing Edge’s document manipulation capabilities. PDF layout and document manipulation in Edge
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