Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
by coffeeling on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:01PM
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OneNote's PDF support isn't really for PDFs, though. It just literally prints the PDF as images onto a OneNote page and OCRs it. Makes for a really heavy page and none of the normal PDF amenities like doing highlighting within the file itself.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
by InitialLastName on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:51PM
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It's strange how inconsistent Microsoft's PDF support is... Edge is essentially the best-in-class PDF markup app on Windows, but OneNote PDF support is soul-crushingly rudimentary.
I guess expecting consistency from the org with 3+ mutually incompatible video call apps and 5 volume control panels was always a fool's errand, though.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
by wiennat on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:24AM
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I guess it is because Edge is using the one that comes with Chrome while OneNote has its own implementation.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
by juki on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:50AM
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> I guess it is because Edge is using the one that comes with Chrome
Is it? As far as I can tell, Chrome just has a plain PDF viewer with none of the annotation/highlighting/commenting/read-aloud features that Edge has.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
by InitialLastName on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:41AM
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No, the Edge PDF viewer has a much larger feature set than the Chrome viewer (although, I think sometimes for reasons I can't place PDFs opened with Edge do end up using the Chrome viewer instead of the Edge native viewer).