Microsoft Edge Legacy isn’t dead yet, though the new Microsoft Edge rolled out to Windows 10 users via Windows Update. There is one more reason to ditch old Edge as it has a lot of PDF handling issues. Microsoft confirmed the PDF issues in the Edge Legacy, provided some workarounds, and also suggests users to use the new Edge to avoid issues.
PDF handling issues in Microsoft Edge Legacy
1.First and foremost, Edge Legacy can’t open a PDF file by saying “This PDF is corrupted”.
This error happens when
- a file sent as PDF from the server has HTML content
- you open an incompletely downloaded PDF file
2. PDF is empty: You’ll see the “Nothing to see here Oops! looks like this PDF is empty” when a PDF file without content served from a Host.
3. PDFs encrypted with AES256 will not open with Edge Legacy. Microsoft recommends using the new Edge to open such PDF files.
4. PDFs opened from USB disks/external devices fail to open in Edge Legacy. This is a known issue, you should be using new Edge in such cases also.
Yep! Ede Legacy is the best PDF Viewer Microsoft produced so far, but Microsoft has already ported most of the PDF features such as Two Page view, digital signatures, Read aloud, Smooth Scrolling, text comments, Table of Contents, and more to the new Edge.
Which PDF feature according to you new Edge lacks when compared with the old Edge? Let us know in the comments below.
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