When you open a PDF portfolio with Foxit PDF Editor, the Portfolio context tab appears on the ribbon with the related commands. And the portfolio window below the ribbon may display elements including a component files (files and folders) list, a preview pane, and a secondary toolbar. The elements are displayed in different positions depending on the view mode you choose.

There are three portfolio view modes:

PDF portfolios are a combination of folders and files with different formats such as Word Office files, text documents and Excel files. Foxit PDF Editor provides viewing and printing PDF portfolios, as well as searching keywords in PDFs in the portfolio.

A Sample PDF Portfolio

Article threads are defined for navigating articles in PDF files as skimming through a traditional print newspaper or magazine, allowing you to focus on a specific article and ignore the rest. To navigate an article in the document, open the Articles panel, and double-click the article you want to view. More information about viewing articles, please refer to View articles in the Articles section.  

To jump to a page with page thumbnails, click the Pages button on the left Navigation pane and click its thumbnail. To move to another location on the current page, drag and move the red box in the thumbnail. More information about page thumbnails, please refer to Page thumbnails.

To jump to a topic using bookmarks, click the icon on the left Navigation pane to open the Bookmarks panel. And then click the bookmark or right-click the bookmark and choose Go to Bookmark. 

Click the First Page, Last Page, Previous Page and Next Page icon in the status bar to view your PDF file. You can also input the page number to go to that specific page. The Previous View icon in the status bar lets you return to the previous viewed instance and Next View goes to the next viewed instance. 

Do either of the following:

• Using mouse actions or keystrokes
• To navigate around the documents vertically, scroll the mouse wheel or press the Down or Up Arrows on the keyboard.
• To navigate around the document horizontally, press Shift and scroll the mouse wheel. 

While scrolling in a document, you can lock the scroll direction to prevent the document from being scrolled out of place, especially when the document is zoomed in and scrolled within tablets. The steps are as follows:

The parallel view allows you to read two or more PDF files side-by-side (either horizontally or vertically) in the same window, instead of creating multiple application windows. When reading PDF files in the parallel view, you can view, annotate, or modify each PDF file independently. However, the Read Mode and Full Screen Mode operations are simultaneously applied to PDF files that are currently active in all tab groups.   

To create the parallel view, do the following:

Multi-tab Reading

The multi-tab browsing feature enables you to open multiple files in a single application window. Newly opened PDFs will be displayed in tabs by default. 

In multi-tab reading mode, you can drag and drop a file tab outside of the existing window to create a new window and view the PDF file in that individual window. To recombine the file tab to the main interface, click on the file tab and then drag and drop it in reverse to the main interface.

You can also select an area with the Select Text and Image command in PDF and export the content in the area to formats including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.