You can open PDFs within Foxit PDF Editor in many different ways. The easiest method is to drag and drop a PDF file into the Foxit PDF Editor window. You can also use Foxit PDF Editor’s Open command to open a recent document, local document, Cloud Documents (Subscription Release), or PDFs in ECM systems (including eDOCS DM, SharePoint, Documentum, ndOffice, iManage Work, Enterprise Connect, Worldox, ShareFile, Epona DMSforLegal, and Alfresco) and cloud services (including OneDrive for Personal or Business, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and Egnyte).
To open PDFs with the Open command, do one of the following:
- Click the Open button
on the Quick Access toolbar. In the Open dialog box, select the file name, and click Open. PDF documents are usually identified with a .pdf extension. - (Optional) You are also allowed to preview non-PDF files on the above-mentioned cloud services in Foxit PDF Editor. The non-PDF files will be converted to PDF temporarily when you try to open them.
- Click File > Open. To open a recent document, a document stored in the local drive, or Cloud Documents (Subscription Release), click Recent Documents/Computer/Cloud Documents. To open PDFs in ECM systems and cloud services like SharePoint, OpenText, ndOffice, iManage Work, Egnyte, OneDrive for Personal or Business, Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box (See also the ECM Integration in the Share PDFs chapter), please select Add a place, sign in to your account, and then you can open your PDF file. The connected Cloud account will be listed in the Open history and the PDF file will be in the Recent Documents list, which will help you open files quickly in the future. To remove an account, just click the Delete icon
that appears when you place your cursor over the account name.
Tips:
- You can open more than one PDF document within the same Foxit PDF Editor application. When you open more than one file at a time, you can navigate the PDF files easily by clicking the corresponding tabs. If you only open one PDF, the tab will not be shown. While reading PDF documents, you can right-click a file tab in the tab bar, and choose Open Containing Folder to open the directory of the file, or choose Copy Path to Clipboard to copy the file path to the clipboard.
- In the Recent Documents tab, Computer tab, or cloud service tab (like Google Drive tab), you can right-click any file or folder, and then choose the corresponding option from the context menu to open the file/folder, pin the file/folder to list, remove the file/folder from the list, or copy the path of the file/folder to clipboard. To pin or unpin a file or folder, you can also hover the cursor over a file or folder and click the Pin icon
or Unpin icon 
alternatively. - To customize the number of documents or folders in the recently used list, please navigate to File > Preferences > History.
- When adding a Google Drive or Dropbox account, you will be guided to sign in to the service in your system default browser. Please follow the on-screen instructions to sign in and authorize the access in your browser first, and then you can open and work with PDF files in Google Drive or Dropbox from within the application.