Foxitis dedicated to improving the performance of Foxit PDF Editor and providing users with bestexperience in viewing, editing, creating, organizing and securing PDF documents. This page listsrecent updates and issue fixes to our software.
AI-powered customer support tool that utilizes natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to understand user queries and respond with answers. This is particularly useful for assisting users in using a specific function or performing certain tasks in Foxit PDF Editor by providing step-by-step instructions based on Foxit resources, such as Foxit Knowledge Base.
Thicken the title bar (sits at the top of the window) and adjust the positions of the items (such as the Search box and File Name) displayed on it, to provide a familiar and intuitive user interface similar to the style of Microsoft 365.
Change the appearance styles for markup comments easily with more customizable default colors from the redesigned intuitive styles in the Format tab in the right panel. Configure shortcut keys to add or modify comments.
Redesign the handy Mini toolbar (When you select a text markup comment, the Mini toolbar floats right above the comment.), and provide an option to disable/hide the Mini toolbar after the comment creation.
Upon adding a text markup comment, you can quickly enter text for its popup note via the Comment panel (only if the panel is already open) in the navigation pane. And adjust the text markup area after you add the markup in the document.
Offer improved user interface for better usability with new fonts, distinct colors for icons and backgrounds, and more, and better software accessibility for users using keyboard controls and screen readers.
Provide a handy and easy-to-use calculator for users like accountants and tax preparers to do calculations and add electronic calculator tapes to PDFs as annotations, the same way they did on paper. (Pro only)
Merge two PDFs by interleaving pages, a useful feature especially when you need to combine two PDFs (scanned from a double-side-printed document), one PDF with all odd pages and the other with all even pages.
Various enhancements in SharePoint integration. For example, when saving a PDF document in a SharePoint library that is configured with Content Types, enable users to change the document content type, and access and edit the metadata related to content type.
Offers more text patterns (like IBAN and Driving License Number) and countries in the Search panel. Allow users to search and redact partial words/characters (i.e., part of the whole words/characters you search).
Redesign the workflow of Combine Files and allow you to rearrange documents/pages in a preview pane before combining. You can expand each file to select desired pages (delete pages you do not need), and adjust page/document order by dragging and dropping.
Foxit Update Server (a separately orderable cloud-based service) provides IT the ability to better manage and automate the software upgrade process and to ensure users upgrade to the exact release that IT has tested, without having to access an external server.
New form field support includes barcode, date, and image form fields. Support for using an external JavaScript editor, as well as JavaScript functions for page numbering/transitions, search/indexing, web links, and more.
Fill & Sign provides a convenient workflow of filling flat forms (i.e. non-interactive) and quick signing by typing or drawing your signature, or using an image. With the Fill & Sign tools, you can add text and other symbols anywhere on a flat form.
Use virtual printer, Office add-ins, etc., to create US Patent and Trademark Office compatible PDF documents. Sets defaults for properties like page size, fonts, etc. per requirements to submit to the USPTO.
The feature is helpful for enterprises to classify and protect documents by applying labels that are configured by administrators with protection settings such as which people can read and use protected documents. (Business Only)
Support proximity searching, which searches for two or more words that are separated by no more than a certain number of words. The feature is useful when you are looking for concepts that might be expressed by multiple different phrases.
Create a batch XML file (a text file that contains a list of platform-dependent catalog index file paths and flags) with Notepad and use a scheduling application such as Windows Task Scheduler to schedule when and how often to automatically update a full-text index.
Provide an option to allow you not to change long PDF filenames to MS-DOS filenames as you prepare documents for indexing, and more options to specify advanced criteria such as custom document properties to be indexed.
Customize a profile that specifies the text strings you want to search and redact, and apply that profile to documents, which improves the productivity of your document workflows that require the same protection. (Business Only)
The Standards panel icon automatically appears on the left side of the navigation pane when you open a PDF that is compliant with a standard, giving you a quick way to view the standards information of the PDF.
PDF index creation and searching
Create a full-text index for a PDF file or a catalog (a specific group of PDFs) and search that index using Advanced Search, which can greatly speed up searches in PDF files.
Viewing Article in PDF
Define a navigational path (or an article thread) for articles that arrange text content in multiple columns and pages, so that users can skim through the PDF like in a print newspaper or magazine, focusing on a specific article and ignoring the rest.
Add an option to set the current size of the signature as default when placing a signature with the PDF Sign feature and the ability to place a signature or stamp by simply dragging a rectangle and filling in with the selected signature or stamp proportionally.
For a PDF digitally signed several times, with the capability to view each signed version of the PDF, you can also view the changes made to each signed version, and compare a signed version to the current version you have.
Provide more options to display table cells when editing table cell properties (Business only)
While editing table cell properties in Touch Up Reading Order mode, you can choose to display like element in a single box, show table cells, and highlight data cells with missing header relationship.
Export comments in PDF files to Word
For PDF files which are created from Microsoft Word documents, Foxit PhantomPDF allows users to export comments in PDF files to revise the original Word documents.
Check certificate revocation status
Perform a revocation checking that determines whether the certificate that is used to digitally sign a PDF document has been revoked while validating a digital signature.
Save the created PDF to iManage Work from Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Visio
When creating a PDF from Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Visio, enable users to save the created PDF to iManage Work directly for streamlined PDF document management.
Integrate Egnyte and OpenText Documentum
Integrate Egnyte service to help users read, modify and save PDF files in Egnyte. Read, check in, check out, and save PDF files in OpenText Documentum from within Foxit PhantomPDF.
Accessibility Features
Evaluates the accessibility of PDFs and fixes accessibility issues in PDFs to make it easier for users with disabilities to use PDFs, with or without screen readers or other assistive software/hardware.
Provides powerful tools and panels to tag PDFs, set alternate text, touch up reading order, and more to make PDFs accessible. (Business Only)
Supports accessible reading and navigation by setting accessibility preferences that control the document display and reading order, using keyboard shortcuts, and reading PDFs in reflow view.
Exports PDF to accessible text that can be converted to a form that vision-impaired users can use.
Integration with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Provides interfaces to allow users to use VBA scripts to have PhantomPDF work with Microsoft Office, including PDF conversion from Excel, PDF form filling, OCR, and more.
Layer editing
Supports the ability to import, merge, flatten, reorder, and delete layers in PDF documents. (Business Edition)
Supports the ability to reorder and delete layers in PDF documents. (Standard Edition)
Microsoft Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support
Enables users to add protection to PDFs with WIP system that helps to protect against accidental data leak on enterprise-owned devices and personal devices.
Improved installation and activation
Allows users to disable the Foxit PDF creator plugin in IE/Chrome/Firefox during installation, and activate Foxit PhantomPDF with activation code via command line.
PDF creation enhancements
Allows users to add Excel sheet names or PowerPoint slide titles as PDF bookmarks in the created PDF.
Enables users to order files by bates numbering when combining multiple PDFs into a single PDF file.
Addressed a potential issue where when the application is not running in Safe-Reading-mode, it could be exposed to command injection vulnerability with abusing the app.launchURL JavaScript call to execute a local program. (ZDI-CAN-4724)
Addressed a potential issue where when the application is not running in Safe-Reading-Mode, it could be exposed to an Arbitrary File Write vulnerability with abusing the this.saveAs function call to drop a file to the local file system. (ZDI-CAN-4518)
Addressed a potential issue where when the application is not running in Safe-Reading-Mode, it could be exposed to an Arbitrary Write vulnerability with abusing the createDataObject function call to create arbitrary executable file in the local file system.
Addressed a potential issue where when the application is not running in Safe-Reading-Mode, it could be exposed to command injection vulnerability with abusing the xfa.host.gotoURL function call to open arbitrary executable file. (ZDI-CAN-5030)
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