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My girlfriend wants to watch a video on Netflix and have the PDF viewer open to read knitting patterns while she watches.

Oops, can't do that! The PDF viewer is fullscreen-only.

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Is that definitely right? Most metro apps should snap to 1/3 or 2/3 width allowing two apps side-by-side.

Edit: OK, so apparently you can[1] snap the default pdf viewer, but I can see it's not going to be a very nice experience having either a video or the pdf viewer occupying 1/3rd of the screen.

[1] http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/17670-how-snap-pd...

Set the default PDF viewer to Chrome, it renders well enough and is pretty quick. Also make sure to set most media default viewers to alternatives, like images, videos, and anything else that could trigger the default metro viewers.

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