With Foxit Text Viewer, you can work on all PDF documents in pure text view mode. It allows you to easily reuse the texts scattered among images and tables, and acts like Notepad. Also, you can adjust some settings to meet your needs.
To Enter Text View mode, do one of the following:
- Choose View > Text Viewer.
- Press the shortcut key Ctrl + 6.
Customizing Text Viewer
As soon as Text Viewer is activated, you can use the Font Setting commands to customize your own work area. Right-click the text area to select Font Setting.
1. To change text font when reading with Text Viewer
- Right-click and choose Font Setting > Font….
- Choose Font name, Font Style, Font Size, Effects, Color and Script from respective fields in Font dialog box. The suggested font for best screen display is Courier New.
2. Toggle between regular style and Bold style, choose Font Setting > Bold.
3. Toggle between regular style and Italic style, choose Font Setting > Italic.
4. Change the text color and the background color
- Right-click and choose Font Setting > Color….
- Text Viewer Colors dialog box pops up.
- Drag respective sliders or type the value to change the Foreground (Font) Color and Background (page) Color. You can preview the changes in the box with a word “Sample”.
- Click OK to complete the procedure, or click Cancel to abandon the changes.
5. Change Text Viewer settings
- Right click the text area > select Setting…
- The Text Viewer Settings dialog box pops up.
- Below are the text viewer settings:
- Set page width at three different levels: Current page width, Current document width and System default width.
- Minimal width – the valid value for this field is 0-1024. It is set to 78 by default.
- Keep Column – for PDF tables or text columns, you can check Keep Column to retain appropriate column in text viewer mode. It is checked by default.
- Auto Width – for PDF tables or text columns, you can check Auto Width to keep proper width between texts automatically. It is checked by default.
- Auto Rotate – you can check Auto Rotate to ensure consistent orientation with that of the printer. It is checked by default.
Finding text in Text Viewer mode
To find text you are looking for, please refer to Find Text.
Copying and pasting text in Text Viewer mode
1. Select text
- Select a word: Double-click the word you want to select.
- Select a line of text: Click and drag the cursor on the line of text you want to select.
- Select all the text: Press Ctrl + A or right-click the Document Pane > choose Select All.
2. Copying text, do one of the following:
- Right-click the selected text > choose Copy.
- Select the text and then press shortcut key Ctrl + C.
3. Pasting text
To paste the selected text on Clipboard to another application, please follow the paste command of the specific application.