Foxit Reader
Industry’s Most Powerful PDF Reader
- Small, Fast, and Feature-Rich PDF Reader View, Annotate, Form Fill, and Sign Integrates with Popular ECMs and Cloud Storage
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PDF Reader
Reading and Printing PDF Couldn’t Be Easier
Many of the documents we interact with are PDF documents. Experience the power of PDF through a full functioned PDF Reader.
Quickly learn the product by utilizing the Microsoft Office style ribbon toolbar, which provides a familiar user interface.
Leverage existing forms and workflow with standard PDF (Acroforms) and XFA (XML Form Architecture) form filling.
JAWS (Job Access With Speech) compatibility allowing blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a refreshable Braille.
Collaborate & Share
Annotate, Share, and Collaborate
When teams collaborate and share information, they work at their best. Foxit PDF Reader links knowledge workers together to increase flexibility and results.
Integrate Foxit PDF Reader with leading storage services – Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and SharePoint.
Participant in shared and connected reviews.
Provide comments to documents with a large variety of annotation tools.
Protect & Sign
Encrypt and Sign PDFs
Many documents contain confidential information. Don’t just protect your perimeter, protect information by protecting the PDF documents themselves. Foxit PDF Reader supports multiple security options.
Sign documents in your own handwriting or utilize eSignature.
ConnectedPDF Powered – enforces document protection.
Extends usage control of Microsoft Rights Management Services to PDF documents.
ConnectedPDF
Next generation PDF for the connected world
Foxit Reader goes beyond a PDF viewer, it’s ConnectedPDF Powered. ConnectedPDF is leading edge technology that powers cloud-based services for PDF files.
ConnectedPDF Security — grant and revoke document access.
ConnectedPDF Document Management — Track to see who opens your document and what they do and notify readers of new updates.
ConnectedPDF Collaboration — Elevate your teamwork with connected reviews or send requests to others to get a file.
Customize & Deploy
Take Control in Enterprise Wide Deployments
Foxit makes it easy to deploy Foxit PDF Reader to all the desktops in the organization, no matter how wide spread your empire reaches.
Sign documents in your own handwriting or utilize eSignature.
ConnectedPDF Powered – enforces document protection.
Extends usage control of Microsoft Rights Management Services to PDF documents.
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System Requirements
Platform Support
Windows
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 10
macOS
- macOS 10.13 or higher
Linux
- Ubuntu Desktop 14.04
16.10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x (64-bit)7.x
- SUSE 12 Linux Enterprise Server
- OpenSUSE 13.2
- OpenSUSE Leap 42.x
For users utilizing the Active Directory Rights Management Service, the following systems are supported:
- Ubuntu Desktop 14.04
16.10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x7.x
- OpenSUSE 13.2
- OpenSUSE Leap 42.x
Citrix
- Verified as Citrix Ready ® with Citrix XenApp ® 7.13
Foxit Reader now available on Mac and Linux
Award-Winning PDF Reader Adds Mac and Linux Support
FREMONT, Calif. –September 15, 2015 – Foxit ® Software, a leading software provider of fast, affordable and secure PDF solutions, today announced that Foxit Reader, the company’s flagship PDF reader, is now available for the Mac ® and Linux ® platforms. This release now provides a consistent user experience for PDF consumption across multi-platform environments, consisting of Foxit Reader for Windows ® , Mac, and Linux desktops and Foxit MobilePDF for iOS ® , Android ® , and Windows Phone mobile devices.
Foxit Reader’s success and popularity has resulted in over 325 million installs; making it one of the most used PDF technologies in the industry. Now organizations can deploy a proven PDF solution enterprise-wide, allowing everyone to view, print, and annotate PDF documents.
Capabilities of the Foxit Reader for the Mac OS X and Linux platforms include:
View PDF
- Open and view PDF files quickly and accurately
- Open multiple documents at the same time and switch among open documents using tabs
- Open password protected PDF files
- View PDF files in single page, continuous, facing, or facing continuous mode
- Easily navigate PDF files by page number, page thumbnail, or bookmark
- Support zoom in or out of PDF files
- Support page rotation
- Support text search
- Open password protected documents
Annotate PDF
- Mark up the text in PDF files with text markup tools
- Add notes in PDF files using the typewriter tool
- Make comments in PDF files with sticky notes
Print Documents
- Print PDF documents to physical printers
Microsoft RMS Support
- Encrypt and decrypt PDF files with Microsoft Active Directory® or Azure Rights Management Services
- Add security watermarks in protected PDF files to secure sensitive information
- Specify file permissions
- Microsoft RMS support is available as a paid for add-on
“Our customers have asked us to bring our lightweight, high performance, and feature rich PDF reader to the Linux and Mac platforms,” said Frank Kettenstock, vice president of marketing at Foxit. “Now multi-platform enterprises can standardize on a single PDF reader to provide a consistent PDF experience across desktop and mobile devices. In addition, Mac and Linux consumers can now enjoy the superior technology of Foxit Reader on the system of their choice.”
For more information on the Foxit Reader or to download your free copy, please visit www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-reader/.
To learn more about Foxit Software, visit Foxit at www.foxitsoftware.comor contact us at 1-866-MYFOXIT.
About Foxit Software
Foxit is a leading software provider of fast, affordable, and secure PDF solutions. Businesses and consumers increase productivity by using Foxit’s cost effective products to securely work with PDF documents and forms. Foxit is the #1 pre-installed PDF software, shipped on one-third of all new Windows PCs, including those from HP ® , Acer, and ASUS ® .
Foxit’s Software Development Kits (SDKs) help developers reduce costs and improve time to market by easily integrating industry leading PDF technology into application workflows. This technology shares the same underlying technology that powers Google’s open-source PDFium project.
Winner of numerous awards, Foxit has over 325 million users and has sold to over 100,000 customers located in more than 200 countries. Since Foxit products are ISO 32000-1/PDF 1.7 standard compliant, they are compatible with your existing PDF documents and forms.
How to Install Foxit PDF Reader on Ubuntu or Any Linux Distro
Foxit PDF Reader is a free (as in free beer) and fast PDF reader for Linux, macOS and Windows. Linux and macOS support was added in September 15, 2015.
Foxit Reader Linux edition features include:
- Fast and lightweight
- Tabbed view for multiple PDF documents
- It allows you to protect your PDF files with password.
- Zoom in or out
- page rotation
- text search
- Use text markup tools, typewriter tool or sticky notes to annotate your PDF file.
- Print PDF documents
Install Foxit PDF Reader on Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Any Linux Distro
Go to Foxit Reader download page, choose 64 bits or 32 bits according to your OS architecture. You can also use the wget utility to download it in terminal.
Once downloaded, open up a terminal window ( CTRL+ALT+T ) and navigate to the download destination folder. For example, if the file is downloaded to the Downloads directory under your home directory, then run
Then execute the following command to extract the tar.gz archive.
A .run file will be created. Make sure you grant execute permission by running the below command.
To install it in system-wide mode, execute the .run file with root privileges.
Then follow the installation wizard. I recommend installing it under /opt/ directory as shown in the screenshot below.
Once installed, you can start it from Unity Dash or your application menu.
The user interface is well designed. I particularly like the tabbed view for multiple PDF documents and the ability to annotate and highlight which is something that Evince, the default PDF viewer in Ubuntu, doesn’t offer. Although you can’t create PDF files as you can do with the Windows edition, Foxit Reader is probably the best PDF reader for Linux.
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