Chinese characters disappear when editing a pdf file on Microsoft Edge

Anonymous
2022-03-15T14:09:02+00:00

Can someone help me with this.

I want to edit a pdf file on Microsoft Edge. It was fine with the English language; but I can't type Chinese characters, like they just disappear.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-07-13T10:49:35+00:00

    I have a solution that consistently works for me. Apparently, Microsoft is partnering with Adobe to bring an "improved" PDF editor, which is apparently just the old one but with fixes and optimisations. One of those fixes seems to be this very issue.

    All you have to do is enable the flag: #edge-new-pdf-viewer

    To do so, paste this in your address bar: edge://flags/#edge-new-pdf-viewer

    Then, restart. Chinese/unicode rendering fixes seem to have been added only to the new PDF viewer in the latest update. After doing this, I experienced absolutely no problems trying to annotate Chinese characters.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-13T10:58:41+00:00

    Thanks for sharing! I just tried and it worked for me. Finally!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-14T00:12:40+00:00

    Just tried, it worked! Great thanks!

    You make my day!

    Though the solution is still not perfect, when the PDF with Chinese comment added sent to others, if they click on the Chinese character comment, the text will be gone again. Afterall, we cannot ask everyone receives the PDF to have the flag enabled on his/her Edge browser.

    I really think Microsoft should fix the issue via Edge upgrade.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-16T02:24:58+00:00

    Sadly, it's still not working when I add text with Windows Greek Polytonic keyboard :(
    I enabled the new pdf viewer, but add text windows are only visible when I'm adding text. They disappear when I click out of them.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-24T02:51:04+00:00

    it work wonders for me. thank you

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