Firefox now supports adding images in PDF documents

After adding the PDF Editing feature, Mozilla is now working on making it fully functional. Firefox now supports inserting images into a PDF file. The company is targeting this feature for Firefox 117.

Most web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, come with a built-in PDF Viewer to view PDFs. However, the PDF Viewer is not a full PDF Editor, so you need to rely on third-party PDF tools available online.

Mozilla continues to improve Firefox’s built-in PDF Viewer, PDF.js. The improvements it adds can be small or significant. Recently, we reported Firefox has received the ability to write text and make annotations in PDFs. The company is now working on importing images as signatures into a PDF.

Picture added to a PDF in Firefox via PDF.JS

Here’s how to add an image to a PDF on Firefox

  1. Launch Firefox
  2. Open a PDF file by dragging and dropping it from your device or web
  3. On the toolbar, click on the “Add an image” option (Picture icon) that appears next to the Save icon
    add an image toolbar option
  4. Try to draw in the empty area where you want to add a picture with the cursor. When a square appears with a spinning circle inside with dialog to select the file, navigate to the image location and add it.
  5. Resize the image and save changes to the document.
  6. In this way, you can add multiple images to a PDF.

You can able to control the feature by changing “pdfjs.enableStampEditor” pref in configuration Editor.

What’s your take on this? Have you found Firefox’s new “adding image PDF editing” feature useful? Let us know in the comments below.

Final words: Firefox’s built-in PDF Editor is getting better. Starting Firefox 117, you can add images to PDF files in Firefox.

More on Firefox PDF features:

Firefox PDF Viewer gets a new User Interface and Form Filling Support

Mozilla Firefox can now open XFA PDFs

Firefox lets you open PDFs with System Viewer

New Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in App Mode in Firefox

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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