Read and annotate PDF files with Foxit

Most of the important documents, e-books etc. are circulated as a PDF format, and to read them you need a PDF reader. The most widely known PDF reader is the Adobe Reader, but if you have downloaded Adobe Reader lately you might have noticed that is getting a little heavy. It’s about 21 MB, and the installation is a little bit lengthy.

Foxit is an Alternative to Acrobat Reader. It only weighs 2.55 MB and the installation is an eye blink. Some of the features Foxit offers are:

“¢ Bookmark Design: Makes it possible to have your own bookmarks. Users can create, edit, or delete bookmarks in a PDF file if the security settings allow.
“¢ Multi-tab Browsing: Enables users to open multiple files in a single instance.You can choose to view PDFs in a multi-tab window or multiple instances by setting documents layout from the Preferences dialog.
“¢ Multimedia Player Support: Supports many media formats including audio and video. Read multimedia ebooks with Foxit Reader 2.3.
“¢ Callout and Text box Tool: Creates comments in a callout text box or a box. You can also define their appearance as other commenting tools.
“¢ Commenting Text Tool: Enables users to add most types of text edits by right-clicking on the selected text, including highlight, strikeout, underline, squiggly and replacement. You can also use the Commenting Text Tool to add bookmarks for PDF files.
“¢ Rulers and Guides: Provides horizontal and vertical ruler guides to help users align and position objects on the page. Right-clicking on the ruler enables you to change the unit of measurement.
“¢ Magnifier: Magnifies areas of the PDF files easily as you work on Foxit Reader.
“¢ Automatic Scrolling: Allows users to view documents without using mouse actions or keystrokes.
“¢ OCG Support: Enables the user to view related content stored in a variable number of separate layers.
“¢ FDF Related: Opens FDF files directly with Foxit Reader without any import implementations.

Installation of Foxit is a breeze. After you download it, and click on the Setup.exe file, the following screen will come up:

Clicking on the next button will bring you to the following screen:

Clicking on the next button will bring you to the license agreement window. Clicking next, setup will ask you what type of installation you want: Default or Custom.

Clicking on the Default button will install Foxit with all the features. It basically takes 30 seconds to install Foxit. Check it out, and judge it for yourself.