Foxit Reader just got perfect in my opinion. You may think that I’m crazy for thinking that it wasn’t perfect before, but one thing that always bothered me was the poor text selection. Before to copy and paste text from a PDF you had to draw a box around the text that you wanted. It was nothing like what Acrobat does for selecting text, and it was far from what people are accustomed to when selecting text in a word processor.
Now, however, that has all changed. Foxit Reader 2.2 has a greatly improved text selection feature. With it you can highlight text line-by-line which is incredibly handy when working with multi-column layouts. If the text that you’re highlighting gets close to the bottom of the page Foxit will automatically begin scrolling for you, too!
The other good news is that the improved text selection is just one of the many new features in Foxit Reader 2.2:
- Capture words via mouse: If you are using a dictionary software, you may want to use your mouse to capture words inside a PDF file and have them translated. You can turn on this feature by checking “Screen word-capturing” option under Edit>Preferences>General.
- Advanced PDF Search: Now you can search a string either in a single PDF file or in multiple PDF files under a specified folder. When the search finishes, all occurrences will be listed in a tree view.
- Minimize Foxit Reader to the system tray: You now can save space on your task bar by minimizing the Foxit Reader to system tray. This feature can be turned on by checking “Minimize to system tray” option under Edit>Preferences>General.
- Work with friendly bookmarks: Now when you navigate through the PDF document, the highlighted bookmark item will automatically be kept in sync with the current page being displayed. And you can click on a handle to hide or show the bookmark panel.
- View PDF page size: Now the actual size of each PDF page is displayed on the status bar.
- Enjoy other improved features: You will enjoy many other improved features, including:
- Well-organized toolbars
- Better command line support
- Enhanced support for eastern Asian languages
- Many bug fixes
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It might be the best (and smallest) reader but it’s still not the best app to print from…
I have just started using Foxit Reader and for the most part I like it, especially the short load time. The one thing I find missing, that I use alot in Adobe Reader is the ability to check all the document permissions (print, annotate, view only, encryption, etc.) in one convenient place. I create a lot of PDF files to send to clients that require encryption and change restrictions and like to make sure that the permissions are what they should be. Perhaps I am missing this, or they have a plugin for it?
I’ve printed quite a bit with Foxit before, but never had any issues.
Had Switched Over from adobe acrobat reader, a long time back and have never looked back since. excellent piece of software . and now i see it keeps getting better.
I’m not afraid to admit that I have a bit of a man crush on Foxit Reader. Thanks for the heads up on this update!!
Lets just hope you never have to breakup.
I repeat: PDF X Viewer is still the best.
I just went and checked that out, but it didn’t seem to have many features.
Is there a free PDF Typewriter that allows you to type in text ontop of the PDF other then Adobe Acrobat Professional?
That’s normally requires PDF editing capabilities, and I’ve yet to see a free program that offers it.
i think Foxit is the best PDF reader on the planet… since the application is small and load very fast
The one thing Foxit has always sucked at is printing USPS labels. Today I went to print 6 labels. The first 2 printed OK, then the rest of the labels are missing bar codes. It pulls stuff like that. I really want it to be better, but it just is terrible at printing technical documents - even to a Postscript printer.
Sometimes it won’t print small annotations on technical drawings, it’ll just print them as solid blocks.
As the first post said, this is NOT a good app to print from.
I actually use this to print USPS labels as well, and haven’t had a problem. Granted we normally don’t do several at a time, but I would have expected to see a problem like this at least once with the dozens of documents and stuff we’ve printed from Foxit.
Great tip. So far haven’t used it much, but speed improvement is nice!
Hey, just curious, can it be used w/in browser?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tool that can do that, but it’s actually better to not have it open in the browser. Otherwise it can cause your browser’s memory usage to skyrocket. At least that’s what would happen with Acrobat a lot of the times.
Yeah, ur probably right
It would be perfect if we could click links inside a pdf document.
Until now only Acrobat Reader can do that.
Maybe this is the price we have to pay for the speed of Foxy Reader.