By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor allows users to add trusted URLs to better manage file access.

To set on-line whitelist, please follow the steps below:

Choose File > Preferences > Trust Manager > click Change Settings in the Internet Access from PDF Files outside the web browser group, then Manage Sites dialog box will pop up as shown below:

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Safe Reading Mode enables you to control unauthorized actions and data transmissions that efficiently avoid attacks from malicious content and viruses. 

Activate Safe Reading Mode

To activate Safe Reading Mode, do the followings:

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Your PDF files or PDF portfolios may contain non-PDF attachments or component files, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or text files. Foxit PDF Editor allows you to open non-PDF attachments and component files with the supported applications installed on your computer if you trust the documents.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor provides a FIPS mode to make data protection compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). FIPS mode uses FIPS 140-2 approved algorithms to establish requirements for various purposes including the cryptographic modules of software and hardware. 

The system administrator can configure FIPS mode in the Windows registry by the following steps (Take Foxit PDF Editor 11.0 for example): 

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Windows Information Protection (WIP), a feature that enterprises use to protect enterprise data by encrypting it and separating it from personal (or employees’) data, provides a way to manage data policy enforcement for enterprise apps and documents. For enterprises that are using WIP policies can include Foxit PDF Editor and network locations in their policy restriction on PDF documents, which helps to protect enterprise data against potential data leak on enterprise owned-devices and personal devices that employees bring to work.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor provides the Whiteout feature to enable you to apply redaction with one-click, improving your productivity in the document workflow. You can use the feature to simply and securely erase any content to white background from your PDF file with one click like an eraser, leaving no trace behind of the previous content.

To remove content from your PDF with the Whiteout command, do as the following: 

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor enables users to generate a redacted and AIP-protected PDF from an existing PDF. Authorized users are granted access to view the full document while unauthorized users are only able to view the redacted document, which allows for improved knowledge sharing of non-sensitive information within a protected document.

To generate a redacted and AIP-protected PDF, please do the following:

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You can find and remove content either in a single PDF file or in multiple PDF files under a specified folder that contain searchable text with the Search & Redact command.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You need to apply redactions after marking the text, graphics, or pages you want to redact. To apply redactions, do the following: