Foxit Reader 4 released
30 June 2010 by Stefan Kottwitz
The version 4.0 of the Foxit Reader has been released. It’s a light-weight and fast reader for PDF documents and it can be downloaded for free. Version 4 provides new features:
- reviewing and commenting tools like highlighting, underlining, striking out, search and replace, magnifying glass and inserting notes,
- editing tools like textbox, adding comments, measuring bar and form filling,
- spell checker for comments,
- undo and redo for comments,
- adding multimedia like images, movies, file attachments and links to a PDF document,
- conversion of PDF to text format,
- modifying bookmarks,
- safe mode for secure reading.
The reader comes with the ask.com toolbar, it’s installed by default so be careful if you don’t like that! In this case choose the custom installation and click the Decline button - otherwise the toolbar will be installed even if you unmark the check boxes. Even if that happened, the Foxit Toolbar can be uninstalled in the Control Panel of Windows.
This text is available in German. Dieser Text ist auch in Deutsch verfügbar.
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1 July 2010 at 1:25 PM
If only there would be some way to reload files in Foxit, it would so much more useful for LaTeX.
1 July 2010 at 3:13 PM
Hi Tomek,
yes, it’s sad that there’s no auto refresh.
Perhaps a workaround could be used, like a batch file with “taskkill” or similar, inside an output profile of TeXnicCenter.
Yesterday somebody (Stefan) told me that the Foxit Reader could be persuaded using the command line to refresh refresh the PDF, like jumping by -n 1000 on a page that doesn’t exist and jumping to a meaningful page afterwards - could be in a batch script.
Stefan
8 August 2010 at 10:44 PM
Yes, not having an auto-refresh or reload feature is pretty much a show stopper for me. I can suffer with Acrobat for a little while longer.