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Update:
The date for commercial rollout for embedding the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine into the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader has been moved to Mid-Summer.
The date for the removal of the current engine for the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader will be delayed to no sooner than early 2025…
* Using Adobe in Edge is the last nail in Edge’s coffin.
“Microsoft is now rolling out the new Adobe Acrobat PDF experience to regular Edge users. You can speed things up by navigating to the edge://flags page and enabling the “New PDF Viewer” flag.
Consumer devices have had the improved Edge PDF viewer for more than a year, without requiring any enablement flag (as shown in Neowin’s table but not clarified in the article). This recent news only affects managed devices.
Note that turning it on will also place an “Edit with Adobe” ad promoting the Adobe Acrobat subscription ($15.59 per month when paid annually) and its features like editing PDF, merging files, adding items, and more….
It’s an “Edit with Acrobat” … menu option at top right; not an ad, as you never see it unless you go looking for it:
* Using Adobe in Edge is the last nail in Edge’s coffin.
Edge has more desktop users than Firefox or Safari etc.:
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide
With the change to the use of the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine in the built-in Microsoft Edge PDF reader, you can expect additional benefits at no extra cost, such as higher fidelity for more accurate colors and graphics, improved performance, strong security for PDF handling, and greater accessibility—including better text selection and read-aloud narration. The built-in Microsoft Edge PDF solution with the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine will have full feature parity with the legacy Microsoft Edge PDF solution. No functionality will be lost. We will continue to add free features to the built-in Microsoft Edge PDF reader in the future.
What’s changing with Adobe Acrobat PDF capabilities in Microsoft Edge
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