

PhantomPDF is a full featured business ready PDF solution to view, create, edit, comment, share, secure, organize, export, OCR, secure, and sign PDF documents and forms. These releases are the next major releases of PDF software which provides users a cost effective solution to securely work with PDF documents and forms. Then use the zoom slider at the bottom right to resize the text.FREMONT, CA-(Marketwired - Jan 6, 2015) - Foxit® Software, a leading software provider of fast, affordable, and secure PDF solutions, today launched Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF 7 in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong, Traditional Chinese for Taiwan, and Korean. Click File, Preferences, General, then tick the ‘Use single-key accelerators to access tools’ box, then click OK.Ģ You can switch to Foxit Reader’s new Reflow Mode by clicking the Reflow button in the View section of the Home tab. Hopefully, version 9.0 will be available in a portable format soon.ġ To use Foxit Reader’s new keyboard shortcuts, you must turn them on. Note that there is a portable version of Foxit Reader available from but, at the time of writing, this was still only version 8.32. Also, you can design and export your own digital signature.ĭownload Foxit Reader 9.0 from the URL above and run the file to install it, taking care to de-select the option to install a trial version of Foxit PhantomPDF (a paid-for professional PDF editing tool) when prompted. You can now more easily find tools you need by typing into the ‘Tell me what you want to do…’ box at the top of the screen. Reflowing doesn’t permanently change the PDF file, which reverts to its original formatting as soon as you switch Reflow Mode off. This reformats the text in a PDF automatically when you zoom in, so that it fits the width of your document, meaning you can read it without having to scroll horizontally. For a full list of the new shortcuts, check page 218 of the user manual, which you can download from Another useful addition is Reflow Mode. These new shortcuts aren’t enabled by default – see below to find out how to switch these on. So, hitting the S key now lets you open a new sticky note, for example, while pressing X switches you to the text-box tool. But few free PDF programs offer as many useful features as Foxit Reader – and a major new version release has just added even more handy tools.Īmong these is a new selection of very useful new single-key shortcuts that let you quickly carry out common actions using your keyboard.

However, if you don’t want to install anything, you could just use Microsoft Edge, which now – following the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – includes the ability to annotate PDFs. There’s no shortage of free PDF readers available.
