These days you get an awful lot for free from PDF viewers – both Foxit PDF Reader and Nitro Reader now sport powerful tools for creating PDFs as well as viewing them – but there’s still a market for commercial tools like Foxit PDF Editor.
The suite provides everything you need to convert, rearrange and edit PDFs as well as create them – whether using the program’s built-in support for dozens of documents, Office plug-ins or simply the virtual PDF print driver it includes as a catch-all for more obscure documents too.
Foxit PDF Editor's conversion tools make it easy to turn PDFs into Office documents, RTF, HTML, plain text and image formats. There’s built-in OCR for creating searchable and selectable PDF documents and basic tools for editing text, images and page order.
Business-friendly tools include form design on top of the usual support for filling in and saving form data. Documents can also be secured using encryption and permission controls.
Foxit PDF Editor also includes all the functionality found in the free Foxit Reader program, so you can highlight and annotate pages, add stamps and even insert handwritten signatures via a scanned image or by using the freehand tool supplied.
Verdict:
An easy-to-use, compact, fast and very powerful PDF authoring suite
Changelog
What's new in v14.0 (see the release notes for more)?
- Create organized PDF binders (Pro only)
- The Binder feature offers an efficient way to compile and organize multiple documents in different formats into a single file - a PDF binder, with the support of various customizations like TOC (table of contents) generation.
- Allows users to quickly add tickmarks (including symbols, numbers, and letters) to a PDF like a stamp. (Pro only)
- Enhanced protection with sensitivity labels using Microsoft Azure Information Protection
- View, navigate, measure, and comment on 3D content in glTF (GL Transmission Format) format in PDF documents.
- Sign and verify digital signatures using the new Hash algorithms in compliance with ISO/TS 32001 and ISO/TS 32002.
- Improve the accessibility features associated with keyboard shortcuts, button identifiers, and object focus to deliver a better user experience.
- Modify the page size for multiple documents at once.
- Support Vietnamese and Indonesian text recognition in the OCR feature.
- Support HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set) coded in ISO 10646.
- Save or import document metadata (the document information such as the document’s title, author, and keywords) in XMP format, making it easier to share metadata among different documents.
- Allow end users to upgrade Foxit PDF Editor without requiring admin rights.
- Enterprise admins can set a domain whitelist or blacklist using GPO templates or Foxit Customization Wizard to restrict end users with specific email addresses from allowed domains from logging into the application.
- The Combine feature allows users to preview page thumbnails of each file and rearrange pages by deleting or reordering thumbnails before combining the files.
- Provide a native 64-bit version of the application to enhance the performance on 64-bit systems.
- Provide support for Microsoft’s Double Key Encryption (DKE), which protects highly sensitive data by using two encryption keys—one controlled by the user and another stored securely in Microsoft Azure.
- Enable admins to use deployment tools to configure a shared location for templates, including watermarks, backgrounds, headers/footers, and stamps, across the organization.
- Compatible with USB writing pads for users to add handwritten signatures as stamps in PDFs conveniently.
- Encrypt and decrypt PDF files using AES GCM encryption algorithm in compliance with ISO/TS 32003.
- Other enhancements to the user experience.
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