Excellent tool-bar with popular functions such as: Zoom in-out, Full screen view, Hand tool, Text selection tool, next/previous page tool, etc. Show PDF meta-tag infos (such as changing the Author name, Subject, Title, etc). Show/Hide navigation panel (bookmarks or thumbnail page views). Simple yet an effective GUI design, integrates with Ubuntu flawlessly. Although I think perhaps the default document viewer in Unity, Evince (Gnome’s actually) could be a bit faster but then again Foxit gives you a few more features.

Loads fast and rendered PDF files without any issues, while I tested it. And when compared with the old beta versions, concerning both feature and stability, this is a much better product. So as a result, they released a separate version for the GNU/Linux users which of course lacked some features when comparing with the MS Windows version.Īnd it was actually at beta stage for a long time but initially, they released the official Foxit 1.1 for GNU/Linux sometime ago. Where ya all PDFs at! -)…īut with recent times they’ve found out that there’s certainly something worth investing in GNU/Linux (thanks to Ubuntu, I suppose). The developers, somewhat recently released a new version for Windows platform which brought a lot of changes (mainly concerning the GUI) but Foxit has been a bit “shy” at supporting the GNU/Linux platform.

Not only it loads fast but it’s certainly uses less amount of your system resources as well. That’s what I used think until I found Foxit Reader few years ago! :). Someone now could say that Adobe has nothing to do with it since it’s your PC which is the bottleneck. If you have a PDF file with lots of images (and somewhat an older computer) for instance, then you won’t be impressed with its performance. But in my experience, apart from all of its features and usability, it’s a PC resources hog!. Adobe invented the PDF (portable document format) thus their PDF Reader is perhaps one of the most widely used applications for reading PDF files.

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