![]() The fix was, in the standalone Foxit Reader app, to choose menu Help, and Set Foxit to Default Reader a couple of times. In my case, the Adobe uninstall mucked up the opening of PDFs (even though I'd previously set Foxit Reader as the default program for opening PDFs): It'll kick & scream and screw up your PDF associations as much as it can, leaving a big mess in your house, scratching your paintwork with screeching fingernails and hanging onto your doorframe while you try to shove it out the door. If after you've tried Foxit you want to uninstall Adobe Reader, note that horrid horrid anti-social Adobe Reader won't get its claws out of your computer without a fight. ![]() Tip and troubleshootingFirst general PDF tip - if you use Firefox (and if not why on earth not? ) then get the free PDF Download Firefox extension, it makes handling PDFs so much easier ( Firefox extension installation howto). Though I've not tried it myself and am unlikely to have call for it as I won't be doing fancy forms, there's also Javascript support in the free version. It allows you to easily reuse the texts scattered among images and tables in a PDF document." This is what it looks like after choosing the text viewer:Īnd you can convert a PDF to text by a Save As: The Text Viewer, as Foxit put it, lets you "work on all PDF documents in pure text view. There's even a special Text Viewer mode in the free version you can access via the toolbar: But the free version of Reader's got enough features for most of us: You have to pay for the Pro version if you want more advanced features (they call that Foxit Reader Pro Pack - see what add-ons are free or must be paid for e.g. It also (sort of) works with Firefox, but see below.Īnd of course it works as a stand alone application: The trick is to get rid of the box, click in the document and use F3 to move to the next hit.) (Tip - in IE the search box seems greyed out if you want to use Alt-f or Enter to find the next term. It works in Internet Explorer (I have IE 7): Supports over 30 languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and even Valencian (but oddly not Hindi - even Blogger supports Hindi).Works on all consumer versions of Windows (including 98, XP and Vista), and they even have versions for Linux (tested on Fedora 4 and SuSe Linux 1.0 so far), Windows Mobile and U3 USB smart drives - but no Mac sorry (though they offer both a Linux and MacOS SDK).Takes up much less space on my hard drive too - according to Add/Remove Programs about 7 MB (compared with Adobe Reader, which hogged 117 MB of my precious space!).And it installs (and uninstalls) in a second, I kid you not - I couldn't believe it had done it, but it had. Decent manual (in PDF of course), which also includes an Appendix listing keyboard shortcuts, yay!. ![]()
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