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Microsoft Edge PDF editor textbox zooms in a crops text when editing text

Sam Taylor 5 Reputation points
2025-12-08T11:09:39.55+00:00

We will annotate PDFs with textboxes and when opening a textbox to amend the text when deselecting the textbox the text is then zoomed in and cropped. When entering the textbox again it says that the text is the same size as before, however every time the text box is selected and deselected it zooms in further.

Photo before:

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Photo after clicking text box once:

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Photo after clicking text box twice:

Edge issue - after photo x2.png

I have tried amending the flags per the following comments on another post without success:

Type edge://flags in the address bar and press Enter. Search for the edge-new-pdf-viewer flag, then set it to Disabled. You'll be prompted to restart the browser

Edge is on the most recent version. The issue has only arisen as of today 08/12/2025 and was functioning up to 05/12/2025.

Has anyone come across this?

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 11
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  1. Paulo GM 56,785 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-12-08T11:58:04.5+00:00

    Hi,

    This appears to be a bug, as other users have reported the same issue. Since you’ve already disabled edge-new-pdf-viewer and it didn’t resolve the problem, the best step for now is to report it by pressing Alt + Shift + I. There aren’t any other workarounds at the moment for the stable version, but you can consider checking Edge Beta or Canary to see if the problem is fixed in those versions of Edge as a temporary workaround.

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  3. Denis De La Durantaye 0 Reputation points
    2025-12-10T23:06:59.21+00:00

    would be nice if you ended DEI and hired competent peoples so that you would not push broken buged mess onto end user like this all the time. you're just about to obliterate your enterprise with the monstrosity you call edge, windows 11 and microsoft 365. please PUSH A FIX TO EDGE TO FIX THIS. by whitch i mean; CAN YOU ELEVATE THIS TO THE RELEVANT TEAM THAT DEAL WITH EDGE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE?

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