By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

When you right-click an object or multiple objects with the same type, and choose Properties…, you can view and change the options in it. 

Set objects properties

  1. With the Edit Object command, right-click text objects, images objects, shape objects (or path objects) and shading objects, and choose Properties....
  2. There are General tab and Appearance tab in the properties dialog box. The general tab is as below: (Take image objects properties for example.)

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

A selected object is usually outlined by a bounding box. And the corresponding Format tab will appear in the right panel after you select objects. With groups of commands in the Format tab, you can modify and arrange objects. Depending on the type of objects you select, the Format tab may contain these groups: Text/Shape/Shading Style, Split, Arrange, and Effect.

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor allows you to edit an image object in a PDF using other applications including Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, or Microsoft Paint. To do it, open your document and then do the following steps.

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

The commands Edit Text and Edit Object can only allow you to edit text in one text block in one page. To edit text in a continuous mode like Word, you can use the Reflow Editing command. When you are in reflow editing mode, text will reflow automatically in pages in the document as you add or edit text content. 

To edit PDF with the Reflow Editing command,

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

To edit image objects, click Home/Edit > Edit Object > Image. Double-click an image or choose Edit Object in its context menu. Your current main window is switched to the Image Editor window. For further information about editing image objects, please refer to “Add New Image Objects”.

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

To edit text objects, click Home/Edit > Edit Object > Text. And click on the text you want to edit. A selected object usually is outlined by a bounding box. Double-click the box or choose Edit Object in the context menu. Then the cursor will be blinking, and you can add, paste or replace text only if the font used for that text is installed on your system.

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

With the Join command, you can connect blocks of text into one single paragraph in a block to improve text reflow. Blocks of text may be joined together when you need to join text as one object. Otherwise, a block of text can be divided up into several parts with the Split command. 

To join text blocks, do the following:

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

Using the Link command in the Join & Split context tab (which appears on the ribbon after you click Edit > Link & Join Text), you can link multiple text blocks together and then editing text in these blocks will be treated as editing one paragraph. You can link text blocks not only in one page but also across pages. Text will reflow in these linked blocks and will not cover the page contents that are located among these blocks.

To link text blocks, please do the following:

By Cynthia, 5 December, 2025

With Foxit PDF Editor, you can also directly insert path and shading objects like rectangles, curve, straight line, etc. into your PDF as well as text objects and image objects. Shading objects are generally used to make shadows or nice backgrounds. 

Add a path object

Add a shading object

Add a path object

To add a path object, please do the following:

By Karolin, 4 December, 2025
.fxt-guide { font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #0E0C36; line-height: 1.7; max-width: 100%; } .fxt-guide h1 { font-size: 36px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #0E0C36; } .fxt-guide h2 { font-size: 28px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 48px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: #0E0C36; } .fxt-guide h3 { font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 32px; margin-bottom: