Microsoft and Adobe have reached a partnership to integrate the Adobe Acrobat PDF rendering engine directly into the Edge browser, replacing the existing PDF engine.
This new PDF engine will be included in the new version of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 and Windows 11, which will be available starting in March 2023.
In today’s announcement, Adobe wrote: “Together, the two companies are enhancing the PDF experience and value users expect in Microsoft Edge by powering the built-in PDF reader with Adobe Acrobat’s PDF rendering engine. This will give users a unique PDF experience that includes richer rendering for more accurate color and graphics, improved performance, robust security for PDF processing, and greater accessibility – including better text selection and read-aloud narration. These features will continue to be available for free.”
The announcement reminds that Microsoft will discontinue using the existing Microsoft Edge PDF engine one year after the release of the new version, which is March 2024.
Users who want more advanced PDF features, such as the ability to edit text and images, convert PDF to other file formats, and merge files, can purchase an Acrobat subscription to achieve these features on Microsoft Edge through a browser plug-in.
