The Toggle Ruler feature in the View tab is a “ruler” you can show and drag freely over any part of your document, which is frequently used to go through line items quickly and easily, especially when you need to read tables. 

When enabled, Foxit PDF Editor displays your pointer’s real-time X and Y coordinates in the top-left corner of the document pane. The origin (0,0) is at the page’s upper-left corner; X increases to the right and Y increases downward. Coordinates continue to increase positively when you move the cursor beyond the right or bottom edges of the page area, and become negative when you move left of or above the origin outside the page area.

In Line Weights View, the lines will be displayed with the weights defined in the PDF file. When Line Weights View is turned off, the lines will be displayed with the constant stroke width (1 pixel), regardless of zoom. The following screenshots show the comparison of the PDF file displayed in Line Weights View and Non-Line Weights View. 

You can use grids to line up form fields and objects (including text, image, path, and shading objects) in a PDF document. When you create or move a form field or object, Snap to Grid can align the form field or object with the nearest grid line. 

To show or hide the grid, navigate to View > View Setting > Page Display > check/uncheck Grid.

Foxit PDF Editor provides horizontal and vertical ruler guides to help you align and position text, graphics or other objects on the page. They can also be used to check the size and margins of your documents.

Rulers & Guides

A. Rulers  B. Guides

While reading a PDF file or form field, you can interrupt the reading and adjust reading volume and speed as needed. 

• Go to File > Preferences > Speech, and check Read form fields option. 
• In the PDF form, press Tab to select the first form field that you want to read out loud, and then press Tab to move to the next form field. Foxit PDF Editor will read out the form field as well as the state of selected check boxes and radio buttons. 

• Navigate to the page that you want to read out. 
• Choose View > Read > Read > Read Current Page or Read from Current Page. 

Tip: If you need to read the text in the comments while reading a PDF out loud, please make sure you have checked Read comments option in the Speech preferences. 

You need to activate Read Out Loud before using it. 

Please go to File > Preferences > Reading or Speech. For more information, please refer to Reading preferences and Speech preferences.