Last year we took a look at a sweet PDF reader called PDF-XChange Viewer. One of my favorite things that it includes is a tabbed system for managing multiple PDF’s. It seems like everything is getting tabs these days, and there’s no doubt that they fit very well into a PDF reader. It sure beats having ten different windows open and trying to switch between them all, doesn’t it?
Our fan favorite Foxit PDF reader is jumping on the tab bandwagon as well! The newest version that was just released includes the tab system seen in the screenshot above. Not only that, but it also lets you create bookmarks for any spot within the document which is especially handy when you’re dealing with extensive PDF’s.
Still want more? Here’s a look at some of the other new features and improvements:
- Multimedia Player Support: Supports many media formats including audio and video. Read multimedia ebooks with Foxit Reader 2.3.
- Callout and Text box Tool: Creates comments in a callout text box or a box. You can also define their appearance as other commenting tools.
- Commenting Text Tool: Enables users to add most types of text edits by right-clicking on the selected text, including highlight, strikeout, underline, squiggly and replacement. You can also use the Commenting Text Tool to add bookmarks for PDF files.
- Rulers and Guides: Provides horizontal and vertical ruler guides to help users align and position objects on the page. Right-clicking on the ruler enables you to change the unit of measurement.
- Magnifier: Magnifies areas of the PDF files easily as you work on Foxit Reader.
- Automatic Scrolling: Allows users to view documents without using mouse actions or keystrokes.
- Optimized Rendering: Supports progressive rendering and significantly reduces the response time from the user interface events.
- Improved Link Tools: Allows users to add actions to links, such as go to a page view, open or execute a file, open a web link, etc.
- Improved Snapshot: Enables users to print the selected area in Foxit Reader by simply selecting the Print option from the context menu.
- Search Enhancement: Allows users to float, move and resize the Full Foxit Search box.
- Better Annotation control: Groups drawing markups to help users operate objects collectively, and allows users to move annotations through pages.
- Streamlined UI: A completely redesigned UI with a new look and feel makes Foxit Reader more intuitive than ever before.
I would say that this is actually a pretty big upgrade for Foxit, and I definitely recommend grabbing the new version. Remember, you can download the ZIP version if you want to run it without performing an installation.
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Wonderful!
Sometimes I generate lots of PDFs in sequence, this is very handy.
One more thing: They created a ‘firefox like’ search window (not floating, but attached to the interface). I really love this feature. Its annoying that floating thing in the middle of the document.
Very nice.
It’s kinda surprising to me that they included so many nice features and yet it didn’t get much of a version bump. To me this this felt more like a 3.0 release.
There’s a great fashion concerning a systematic opposition to all “institutionalized” software, and a quest as much for their alternatives. Now this is just fine when the alternative is worth it.
I have Adobe Reader installed, “Adobe Reader Speed Launcher” at boot, I access Adobe Reader in 2-3 seconds and my cpu is only at 1.6MHz …
Foxit is nice, until it requires to install this or that plug-in to enable further view…
All this for 1 or 2 seconds at most? Not worth it in my opinion. Adobe Reader is complete, it’s just OK!
Surely Transcontinental means Ghz….
1.6MHz like good old CP/M
Yesterday, CP you see I did love you so, now it seams as if no one’s to stay, oh! I believe in the relay …
We are on Ghz, not many, but confirmed
The “Best Viewer” is actually PDF-Xchange Viewer, by Tracker Software. It loads just slightly slower than Foxit, but it has a much nicer interface and more features, PLUS it lets you add text to PDF documents and save them, for free, unlike Foxit, which makes you buy the “Pro Pack” before you can save altered PDF documents. I’ve compared them and I’m sticking with PDF-Xchange Viewer.
As for Adobe’s reader, I canned that ages ago. It loads slowly and fills up your hard disk and registry with a bunch of junk. Ugh!
Personally I don’t like having the “speed launcher” installed. All that pretty much does is keep Adobe Reader minimized out of sight. It’s essentially running in the background.
Ha… I didn’t even notice that at first. If he gets Adobe Reader to startup in 2 seconds on a 1.6MHz machine I would be thoroughly impressed.
I do love PDF-Xchange Viewer, but one of my favorite things it had was tabs and now Foxit has those. I don’t really add notes all that often, and I do believe that Foxit will let you but it will add some sort of watermark to the document.