Documents

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

• Open Settings
  • Always open files: Select this option and choose either “in a new window” or “in a new instance” to define how multiple files should open in Foxit PDF Editor. Selecting "in a new window" will open each file in separate windows within the same application instance. Alternatively, choosing "in a new instance" will launch each file in a new isolated process, ensuring that issues in one instance do not impact others, though this may require additional system resources.  
  • Alert user when documents request Full Screen: A message box will pop up to confirm the operation when opening a PDF which has been defined to be opened in full screen mode.
  • In Web Browser, display PDF in Read Mode by default: Opens a PDF in Read Mode automatically in web browser. 
  • Always use filename as document title: Check this option to display the filename of a PDF file in the file tab and the title bar of the application window. When this option is unchecked, if a PDF file has been set to display the document title in the initial view, the document title specified in the document properties will be displayed. 
  • In Foxit PDF Editor, please choose the mode for Display PDF Mode: Display the PDFs in Read Mode or Full Screen Mode or normal way automatically when opening PDFs with Foxit PDF Editor. 
• Prompt Messages
  • Display a prompt before closing all tabs: When you close a window with multiple tabs, Foxit PDF Editor will ask you to confirm your choice. This prevents you from accidentally closing the whole window when you intend to close only the current tab.
  • Automatically save document as e-mail attachment: Automatically save the changes you made to a document and attach the modified document to your email system for sending. 
  • Allow to choose the page range when attaching the tab to a new email message: If this option is selected, you can specify the page range you want to send when emailing the current PDF file to others.    

• PDF/A View mode

  Sets to view documents in PDF/A view mode (i.e. read-only mode) to prevent modifications to the documents. 

  • Never: Never open documents in PDF/A view mode.

  • Only for PDF/A documents: Switch to read-only mode automatically when a PDF/A document is opened. 
• Save Settings         
  • Automatically save file every * minutes: Configure the time intervals for when the document will be automatically saved. 
  • Save as optimizes for fast web view: Save documents as linearized PDFs that can be opened and viewed from web browsers even before the whole file is downloaded. 
  • Automatically embed fonts whenever text is updated and saved: With this option selected, the characters (a subset of a font) that are used when you edit text objects or headers/footers in the document will be embedded into the document automatically. Embedding fonts allows anyone who opens your file to see the document as you intended it to be seen. 

• Preferred Save As Location

  If you have configured a preferred save as location, when prompted to specify a location to save a document, the configured location will be automatically chosen in the Save As dialog box. 

  • Save to the last accessing location: Set the last accessed folder as the default Save As location. This option is checked by default. 
  • Save to a preferred location: You can set a cloud storage or a location in your local drive as the preferred Save As location. To do this, select Local Drive and then click Browse to select the location, or input the location in the text box. Or select Cloud Storage and choose a desired cloud service. If you need to remove the configured output location, select Local Drive and leave the text box blank. 

• Redaction

  After applying redaction, you can save the redacted file as a new file with the preconfigured name automatically. To configure the name, select Adjust filename when saving applied redaction marks, and input text in the Prefix and Suffix boxes to configure the name.