Foxit Reader for desktop Linux

What’s New?

What’s New in Foxit Reader 1.1 for desktop Linux?

The following is a list of exciting new and enhanced features in Foxit Reader 1.1.

New Features:

  • Optimized font display with anti-aliasing feature
    Effectively fix the aliasing issue to optimize the display of fonts.
  • Multi-language UI support
    The user interface can be displayed in English, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, German and French.
  • Font family selection list
    It enables users to display the documents with any kind of fonts in your font family selection list. (Available forChinese/Japanese/Korean font display)
  • History review feature
    When a document is closed, its current state is stored, such as orientation, current page and position, and scaling. The state will be restored once this file is opened again.
  • On-screen dictionary integration
    Automatically connects to a dictionary program you installed and displays the meaning of the words in a pop-up note box while selecting the word in your document.

Enhanced features:

  • Optimized Preference menu
    A new feature is added in the preference menu to display or hide the toolbar while in full screen.
  • Optimized printing window
    It allows the users to print a document using the current view and specify the page number to print.
  • Adding search box in toolbar
    Search box enables the users to specify search options and select past search histories right from the toolbar.
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts
    Users can change the keyboard shortcut of any function with an existing keyboard shortcut.
  • Adding Tooltip
    Tooltip is a brief description of a control's function in a pop-up window when a user hovers the pointer over the control.

Foxit Reader 1.0 for Desktop Linux

  • Add unembedded Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters support
    It can properly display PDF documents containing Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts on Linux platform.
  • Improved print quality with anti-aliasing feature
    Effectively fix the aliasing issue in the output file by replacing the previous bitmap output format with the postscript output one.
  • Add Preview/Next view feature
    Go back or forward one page view by pressing the Preview/Next view button
  • Add Save as feature
    Allow users to save a copy of PDF

Foxit Reader 1.0 Beta for Desktop Linux

The following is a list of key features in Foxit Reader 1.0 Beta for Linux:

  • PDF Viewing
    Includes Zoom In/Out which changes the page view by the percentage you would like. Page Move which moves pages forwards and backwards and Rotation which enable users to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise the book screen by 90-degree increment.
  • Text Selection Tool
    The Text Selection tool enables users to select horizontal and vertical text or columns of text in PDFs. The selected text will be copied to the clipboard automatically and pop up a prompt message box.
  • Snapshot Tool
    Use snapshot tool to copy individual images, text or both from PDFs to the clipboard, other applications, and other files. Then the text and images are pasted as an image.
  • Work with friendly Bookmarks and Page Thumbnails
    The navigation panel on the left side helps you browse through the PDF, which displays two navigation panels, bookmark panel and a page thumbnail panel. This allows users to jump to a specific place in the document with bookmarks or page thumbnails.
  • View Document in Full Screen
    In Full Screen mode, the document pane fills the entire screen, with Menu Bar, Toolbar, Status bar, Bookmarks and Page thumbnails hidden behind. But it provides a fixed toolbar which supports basic page view function: Rotation, Zoom In/Out, etc.
  • Automatically Scroll
    View documents without using the mouse or keystrokes and allowing users to choose a different scroll mode such as continuous scroll, as well as time-lapse scroll. Moreover, you can press the Shift key while scrolling the mouse wheel to control speed.
  • Text View
    Text View allows the user to preview the whole text content from a PDF file in Foxit Reader.
  • Search PDF
    Search for specific text you want to locate in PDF’s. The searched items will be highlighted at which point you can click Find Again or press F3 to continue searching.
  • Support Hyperlinks
    Support internal and external hyperlinks. Click links with the hand tool to take you to another location in the current document or other PDF documents, or other websites.
  • Optimized Rendering
    Supports progressive rendering and significantly reduces the response time from the user interface events.