• Full Screen Navigation

1. Select to show Scroll bar, Status bar, Tab bar (ribbon tabs), or Navigation Panels in Full Screen mode.

2. Show Exit button – Check or uncheck this option to show or hide Exit button in Full Screen mode.

3. One page at a time – Displays a single page at a time in Full Screen mode.

The form tab enables you to set the preferences of the interactive form display.

• Automatically calculate field values: Specify whether to automatically perform all field calculations right after users input the entries. This option is checked by default. The setting for the option only applies to your current session, and it will revert to the default setting after the application is restarted.  

This option allows you to set the default PDF Viewer.

• Make Foxit PDF Editor the default PDF viewer:

  • Advanced

    1. Include browser when setting default PDF viewer: check this option to set Foxit PDF Editor as the default PDF viewer in browser.

• Show changed text in: Select a color the modified text will appear in when using the Edit Text command.

• Alert when there’s no editable text when using ‘Edit Text’ tool: An alert will pop up notifying the user when there’s no editable text while using the Edit Text command. By default, this option is selected. 

• SharePoint

  Choose a method to open a document when you try to open a document on SharePoint. You can choose just to open the document, check it out when opening, or ask you when opening a document.

• iManage 9

The Document of the Preferences dialog provides several ways to browse PDF documents.

Create PDF feature allows users to set the Page Size of PDF to be created.

• Viewing Comments

1. Font and Font Size: Specifies the default font and size for text in the comment pop-up notes. These settings will take effect after you restart Foxit PDF Editor.
2. Pop-up opacity: Sets the opacity of pop-up notes for annotation commands.
3. Print notes and pop-ups: Specify whether or not to print sticky notes and pop-up notes associated with comments in PDF as they appear on the page.

• AIP Settings

Save encrypted file as a copy named ‘filename(protected)’ – saves an encrypted PDF file automatically as a copy named “filename(protected).pdf” after adding AIP encryption to the file.

Encrypt metadata – encrypts the metadata when encrypting PDF documents.

• Open Settings

If an AIP-protected PDF contains a link that opens another AIP-protected PDF, you can select where to open the link. 

When running Foxit PDF Editor’s predefined actions, select the Save warning and errors in log file option to create a log file that contains the detailed report for the action results. Click Browse to select the location to save the log file.

When running the predefined action “Make Accessible (PDF/UA-1)”, users can select the Generate PDF/UA check reports during the “Make Accessible (PDF/UA-1)” process option to generate check reports in the same location as the original file.