Comments on: Foxit Reader - A free PDF document viewer

By: cmcanulty

cmcanulty — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:38:49 +0000

doesn’t seem to work in Maverick

By: Reza Mosayebi

Reza Mosayebi — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:22:55 +0000

Dear all,
I am a BSc student at sharif university of Technology and need to find a spftware with its source code wich converts JPEG to PDF.can u help me?

By: hamid

hamid — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:01:12 +0000

I received this error while doing dpkg :
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error processing FoxitReader_1.1.0_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
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Do foxit only work on 32bit processors?

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:05:14 +0000

@ Mark
If you have any of the newer Ubuntu versions installed on your system, you can find Okular in ubuntu software center.

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:00:54 +0000

Yes PDF can be viewed in firefox. Just right click on any PDF file and go to “open with” in “properties” and set firefox as the default program. If it is not on the list just cleck on the “add” button below the list and select firefox from the new pop up list.

By: Bead Rifle

Bead Rifle — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:07:14 +0000

Yes, sudo dpkg -i --force architecture Foxitreader~ works.

By: Alan Teng

Alan Teng — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:24:04 +0000

banosd says:
October 28, 2009 at 5:35 am

This will not install on 64-bit version

It does
Use:
sudo dpkg -i --force architecture FoxitReader…

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:55:58 +0000

Is there a possibility for pdfs to be opened whitin firefox? as new tab?

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:15:14 +0000

I am using PDF Studio which is java based and can work on any unix flavor inclusing 64 bits. Unfortunately, they don’t offer a free viewer so far. They’re only selling the software as a full PDF editor.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:11:07 +0000

Thank You! Could not for the life of me, find the link to the .deb package.

By: banosd

banosd — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:35:20 +0000

This will not install on 64-bit version

By: Jean Chicoine

Jean Chicoine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:43:49 +0000

Now you get me. I don’t know if that can be done on the free version, Maybe you’ll have to upgrade to the Pro version to be able to do so.

By: karlzt

karlzt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:37:41 +0000

OK, now i get it that only changes the background of Foxit but no the background of the document

i want to change the background color of the document like Okular does.

By: Jean Chicoine

Jean Chicoine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:27:33 +0000

Well, I don’t know, it works for me, I can change the background in full screen from black to white and every colors in between no problem.

By: karlzt

karlzt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:12:59 +0000

is black background by default, but when i put it on full-screen is still white.

By: Jean Chicoine

Jean Chicoine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:00:05 +0000

karlzt says:
does foxit has the option of black background?

Only on full screen, it seems: Edit - Preferences (or Options, I’m not sure which one is used in English, my Foxit is in French), where you can change the background color on full screen.

By: karlzt

karlzt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:32 +0000

does foxit has the option of black background?

By: dfb

dfb — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:22:23 +0000

I care; however, the point to take away from this comment thread is that there is no good all-in-one PDF tool that is open source. In which case, most people will use whatever tool works best, even if it is closed source and proprietary; in this case Foxit.

Evince is a slow, fat, bloated memory hog (relative to Foxit) and lacks the basic feature set most users need -- highlighting, copy from 2 column pages, edit,etc. On the other hand, Foxit is much lighter, faster, and more reliable. It also lacks some basic features but seems to operate better than evince. And so I too use Foxit despite the chance that it might have security holes and goes against the open source spirit. A good PDF tool is almost as essential as a word processor these days (evince fails the grade).

The Open Office Sun PDF Import Extension (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport) is a good first start at an all-in-one tool but it is definitely a work in progress. If you need to highlight or make notes, but do not need to print your changes then I recommend it in place of Foxit or evince. That said, I would not recommend to my mother, yet.

By: 35434535

35434535 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:18:15 +0000

@Jean Chicoine:

I do care. If you wish to use closed source apps with all that it _may_ brings (backdoors, security through obscurity etc.) then go ahead. Just stop wondering that there are people who _care_ for free (libre) software.

By: Paul C. Snider

Paul C. Snider — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:34:39 +0000

I remember using this program during my Windows days! But since it is closed source, I will not be using it.