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Charolette Antosh

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:16:57 PM8/3/24

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I am not a Foxit user, and I might misunderstand something when trying to download and install their print-to-PDF solution yesterday, but it seems to me that their current version of free PDF reader does not provide a PDF printer; so I ended up installing a trial version of the Editor to be able to test things.

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.

Since upgrading to EverNote 10 (currently 10.10.5.7 build 2171) I can no longer save a pdf from FoxIt to Evernote. This capability was working prior to upgrading from Evernote 6 to Evernote 10. I am on FoxIt 10.1.1.36576. Opening a pdf note from EverNote uses FoxIt (default pdf reader), and any edits are saved back to the original note. Any advice on how to restore this FoxIt function? Thanks.

Same exact thing is happening to me since updating to Evernote 10. I had Foxit version 8.3.0.14878 and thought it might be fixed by updating to the latest version of Foxit, so I downloaded latest available from the website. That's Foxit version 10.1.1.37576. That didn't seem to do anything and Evernote is still greyed out. I use this feature all the time so I'm really hoping there's a way to restore this functionality.

Ok, so here's my solution for now. My understanding from reading various posts in the forums is that Evernote 10 is missing a lot functionality that the earlier version had. Really too bad, but that's where we are. I'm guessing that the functionality I'm looking for here is one of the things that is missing. At the moment, I've installed a legacy version of Evernote along with Evernote 10, which can apparently run side by side on the same machine. That lets me use the features I miss having for now. Hopefully things will be updated soon. Hope this is helpful to others!

I have installed Foxit Reader in Fedora, using wine. I found a foxit Linux version, but it is not like the windows version, because there are many things that cannot be done, compared to the Windows version of Foxit.

I want to know if there are any PDF readers in Linux that will give me all the features I listed above. Possible dependencies on a certain desktop (KDE, LXDE etc.) are not an issue, as I have them all installed.

Tried Master PDF Editor? Though it's not open source (only noticed the tag months after first answering), and it looks like it uses a mostly paid-only model except for Linux that still has a "Free for non-commercial use" version (hidden on their website very well, after the "download for Linux" link) it's still the best PDF editor for Linux I've found.

(For Windows & Mac there's a "demo version [that] allows you to try all features of Master PDF Editor.There is no limitation except for the addition of a watermark on output file." But often with linux it comes down to I'll take what I can get, using either foss, freeware, trial, paid, other, WINE, or another OS in a virtual PC - generally preferred in that order).

The paid version is available with the full feature set (the above is not complete), while the Linux free version for non-commercial use (for example personal / educational use) has the following features locked:

I have a couple of large pdfs, more than 100MBytes in size that will not open in Acrobat Reader DC
Version: 21.1.20155.433178 or Foxit Reader. They both open fine in Edge/Chrome browsers.
Acrobat reader intially reports "file is damaged but is being repaired" after open, then after a while reports file is damaged and cannot be repaired. Other but smaller files seem ok in both Readers.

Is this a behavior with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check. If the file is stored on a shared network drive, please download it to your computer first and then try to open it and check.

We see that you are using quite an old version of Acrobat Reader DC application, a new release is now available for version 21.07.20091. Please try to update the application form the help menu and reboot the computer once and see if that helps.

I am limited in terms of later versions that can be installed by my corporate IT team, they provide versions sometime after the release from Adobe after they have been checked out by our IT dept. I am now running 21.5.20058.441104 which still has this issue.

One other thing you may need to do after you open Foxit Tools and tick the two boxes, is to open Firefox, go to: Tools>Options>Applications. Scroll down to PDF Document under Content Type. Go across to Action, click the arrow to open the dropdown menu and select: Use Foxit Reader.

I finally figured out a solution--- open Foxit Reader manually, got to Tools, then Preferences, then Internet- "Web Browser Options " check the box "Display PDF in Browser". FWIW I also checked the box "Show download file dialogue". This solved my problem where the pdf's quit opening and just displayed a blank tab. I don't what changed or why as the pdf's opened before doing the update of 3.6.10 to 3.6.11. go figure.....oh I'm using foxit reader 4.2.0.0928hope this helps someone elseR.

Another thing that might help FF 4.0.1 users: In FF Tools/ options/ applications , don't set the "FDF file" contents type to be Foxit like I did. It looks like PDF, but actually starts with F as in Firefox. You want the one near the top that expands to "Adobe Acrobat Document (application/pdf)" when you do a mouse rollover.

for quite a bunch of PDF files with mixed and somewhat complex content I've tried several tools out the, that can convert PDF to TEXT. Those that are command line capable like PDFtoTEXT.EXE unfortunately are 1.) slow and 2.) the resulting TXT files are not presenting proper content.

Best results I got so far using the Foxit Reader: Fast and reliably creates correct content in the resulting TXT files, but Foxit Reader is not command line capable in a manner to use it for batch processing.

So I wrote this script (ugly: Using a lot of send() commands, as ControlClick() to the appropriate control-IDs doesn't seem to work), and I would like to ask here, if someone has either done a better automation for Foxit Reader already, or maybe there is a good alternative approach to convert PDF to TXT files?

What about converting the PDF to a simple image (png/bmp/jpg), then using a more specific OCR program to read the images? It gives you the flexibility of not looking for a PDF specific OCR program, and you can try something like

or any other CLI OCR. An added benefit of converting to an image is that you can then also do some modifications to the image, to improve the potential clarity of the text if the PDF isn't computer generated (such as it was created from a scanned document).

If you want to use the stand-alone executables (pdftopng for example) with your application, you're free to do so. (To comply with the GPL, you'll need to distribute the Xpdf documentation along with the pdftopng executable - see the Xpdf README file for details.)