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Chrome’s “link to highlight” feature could work for PDFs soon.

A recent Chromium build suggests Chrome could get support for linking directly to highlighted text in PDFs just like you can on a normal webpage, writes code sleuth Leopeva64 in a post that Bleeping Computer spotted.

As a person who has tried too many times to copy links to highlighted text in PDFs only to be disappointed, I’m thrilled.

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