2. Foxit Pdf Reader

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Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and creator with a rich feature set. Whether you're a consumer, business, government agency, or educational organization, you need to read, create, sign, and annotate (comment on) PDF documents and fill out PDF forms. Foxit Reader is a feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, sign, and print any PDF file. Foxit Reader is the only high volume PDF reader providing a complete PDF creation solution, providing the power of PDF creation to every desktop. Foxit Reader comes equipped with comprehensive protection against security vulnerabilities, keeping your system and company safe. Note that ConnectedPDF can not be used portably due to it requiring a locally-installed service.

I'm using foxit reader on Ubuntu 16.04, but the font size for menus, toolbar, etc. is so incredibly small that I have to actually move closer and squint to read it. In the preferences, there is a section where I can change the font size to 13, 14, or 15, but even 15 is hard to read.

I found I had this problem with control and menu text being very small compared to other applications in Gnome under Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS when the Settings Screen Display Fractional Settings are set to off whilst Scale is at 200%.

But when I turn Fractional Settings ON then the Foxit Reader menu display conforms to the size of the other apps I use such as Emacs, Brave,Terminal, File Manager. As I use a laptop with 2880x1800 16:10 resolution I tend to set Scale to 200% as it gives a more comfortable display font size for my usage.

But Foxit Reader needs me to turn ON via the slider option Fractional Scaling to see the Foxit Reader Menus and Control dialogues at the expected size. If fractional scaling is OFF the menu and control dialogues are still displayed at the 100% size rather than 200%. Presumably the code for Foxit Reader is not taking the Gnome / Scale settings into account.

However, somehow FoxitReader does not support shortcut keys for any comment tools. This is quite inconvenience for me, especially when I have to use the trackpad of my laptop to select the tool first.

I used this specifically to set the highlight tool. The section to find the highlight tool option is not intuitive so if your interested in setting the highlight shortcut just navigate to the comment section.

The answer provided by user Adiii is sufficient above.I would like to add,the default option to highlight on foxit linux is ctrl + Hthat option is occupied on windows for entering reading mode, since u would be highlighting more than entering the reading mode, assining alt+H to reading mode and assigning ctrl + H to highlight is the prudent choice.

I had to replace the hard drive on my laptop a few months ago, meaning a re-install of Firefox. PDFs used to open for me in Foxit Reader, which I really liked. Now everything opens in a black page and usually I have to do a lot of fiddling to get anything to print properly; with the Foxit Reader I never had these issues. Wondering if I can get it back.

This is something you can change from your options menu, in the upper right click the button with three horizontal lines and select options. From there make sure you are under the General category on the left and then scroll down to the applications section. In this section you can chose the default action for opening file types, click on portable document format (.pdf) and if foxit is installed on the computer you should have it listed here. Once you change that foxit should pop up for you again.

that was my first step. Foxit Reader isn't listed as an option, that's why I wondered where it was. I have never installed it myself; it just always seemed to be there. Searches of Firefox show no mention of it anywhere.

Foxit isn't a firefox software and install problem you should direct that to foxit support. Also could be a 32 bit to 64 bit firefox install that could also remove previous unverified addons from running on the new install.

I replaced my Adobe Reader with the free version PDF XChange Viewer [PDFXCview.exe]. Anyone making monies with PDFs probably will want the paid-for version.
For my Firefox, I added Shumway, but did not replace Flash Player or Shockwave because many websites still use them, hence I continue to update those two Adobe products.

The other one that caused me problems was that PDFs that used the more advanced features of Adobe, like tables and even worse, were not supported in Foxit and the layout would be wrong, or even an error message saying it could not cope with parts of the documents.

Sorry but the article in November 2010 by TweakHound is more than 4 years old and refers to an earlier version of Foxit Reader which did indeed include the ASK Toolbar which also changed your Search and Home pages.

I am currently recommending the Foxit reader to all of my clients who do not have heavy PDF processing needs. The simple reason: Foxit Reader includes the Foxit PDF Printer as part of its install, and this is a perfectly capable PDF generator for anyone needing a basic PDF printer.

The beauty of the portable versions is you can move that self-contained folder from your desktop to anywhere you want without having to change any configuration settings. Move it to a flash drive or external drive and it launches the same way: just open the folder and double-click the exe. (For convenience, you can create shortcuts to the various apps and put them on your desktop, if you wish.)

I use a number of PDF tools all under the Protable Apps umbrella. But previous poster pointed out that you do not even need the suite although I find it useful for a flash drive based install as it also is able to look for updates.

With respects to PDF I use: SumatraPDF (leightweight display), Foxit Reader, Diff PDF (Comparison), PDF X-Change Viewer (edit, esp. connotate and comment files), PDF TK Builder (merging, watermarking etc.). I also use FreePDF for print-to-PDF purposes, note that this needs a local install as it creates a virtual printer device. Most of these since WINXP, currently all on Win7 Prof. 64-bit and Win 8.1 Prof. 64 bit respectively.

I have not come across any single file that none of those tools could open or display and am able to do a medium level of file and content manipulation for personal matters. My company also has freePDF licensed on their devices.
For security reasons I turn of JavaScript and the like wherever possible.

I use Foxit (free) nearly everyday for all my PDF needs including scanning into PDF format. I removed Adobe Reader at least 8 years ago and have never had a single problem reading a PDF document whether on XP, Win7, or Win8.

Today I disabled JavaScript in my Foxit Reader settings because I hope to gain better security against malware embedded in PDF books I read.As some sort of simple check I tried to open a PDF with fill-in forms and see what happens when I try to fill-in some of the fields and check some checkboxes. Everytime I checked a checkbox, a window opened, saying that JS is disabled and was used for some features in the document. It then gives me the possibilities to add the file to a privileged location or to enable JS again. However, if I just click "Cancel" or simply close this window, the checkbox remains checked and I can simply save the changes.

So my question(s) would be: Based on this experience, is disabling JS in Foxit doing any good and what would be other good solutions for opening PDF files safely?I read about dedicated virtual machines or using Firefox with disabled JS. Would these be secure? The first one seems very unconvenient, since I use my laptop mainly for university and being able to open textbooks comfortably would be good. Then again, keeping my passwords, financial account etc. safe is a priority over convenience.

To be as secure as possible, you could run a VM with Linux and an open source PDF reader of your choice. Turn of the network access of that VM. You can share the PDFs through a shared folder with the host OS. You should not open the files on the host OS. This way a malicious PDF can not steal information and send it directly to a server. To infect your system, a chain of exploits would be needed to execute code, break out of the VM and execute Code on the host. It is not impossible but quite hard and depends on many unknown variables such as the uses linux, the reader, the VM technology and the host OS.

I studied this question a bit. I can say there is no way for a PDF to run malware by itself. The PDF is just bytes in a certain format. There is a very few amount of security risks if not none in the applications used to open PDFs. I would not use Firefox but Adobe to open PDF files. Firefox simply didn't implement the whole PDF specification. I use Firefox because it is open source but not for PDFs (unless you are on Linux).

Where it becomes a security risk is the icon. We are so used to the icons that we see that you will often launch a PDF without looking at the extension or info about the file. If the file is an executable, nothing prevents someone from specifying a PDF icon to an executable and mimick a PDF. This is how I would do it myself. So I would simply tcheck the PDF before opening it.

When you launch software on Windows or Linux, the OS tcheks the extension of the file and uses the default app this extension is associated to. It then puts the file path onto the stack of the new process which the app uses to parse the file. Unless there is a problem in the app used to launch the PDF or the PDF is an exe with a fake icon, I doubt it can do any harm.

I'm not saying it isn't a security risk to download stuff on Internet. But I think among the most secure files are the PDFs especially if they come from trusted sources like a teacher. I would not call a classmate a trusted source though.

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