The Page Display panel of the Preferences dialog box includes the following options:

• Default Layout and Zoom

1. Navigation tab: specifies the panel to be displayed in the opening view.

   1. Use Initial View: minimizes the Navigation panel and hides all panels.

   2. Page Only: displays Pages panel by default in opening view. 

Do not use QuickTime Player for multimedia items: This option is checked by default. As Apple does not provide security updates for its legacy QuickTime for Windows software any more, it is recommended to keep this option checked for security purpose. When checked, Foxit PDF Editor will invoke a multimedia player other than QuickTime Player in your Windows system to run the multimedia inserted in PDF files, but will not play the video if it has been specified to use QuickTime as the required player.

• Measurement Units

You can also customize the grid appearance.

• Width/Height between lines: sets the spacing between grid lines.
• Grid offset from left/top edge: sets the origin of the grid.
• Subdivisions: sets the number of subdivisions within each grid square. Subdivision lines are lighter than grid lines.
• Grid line color: sets the color of grid lines.

Foxit PDF Editor provides the commonly used languages to meet customers’ needs to the upmost. Usually, Foxit PDF Editor will automatically choose the language applied to your OS as its default during your installation. But changing languages after installation is supportable. To change the UI language of Foxit PDF Editor, please go to File > Preferences > Languages, and select an option from the following:

• Enable JavaScript Actions

See also Run Script Right Control.

• Use external JavaScript editor

• Indexing

1. Enable embedded index: Select this option to enable the search with the embedded index in the document.

2. Allow indexing on separate drives: For a full-text index, you can select this option to allow defining a collection of PDF files you want to index from different drives. See also Create a full-text index.

Shows the identity of your application, including Login Name, First/Last Name, Title, Organization Name, Organization Unit, and Email Address. The identify information is quite useful in PDF reviews. It will help other review participants recognize your comments easily. The Login Name is set by default (using the username of the current operation system) and cannot be changed. Except for Login Name, you can change or complete your identity information in Identify Preferences. 

1. Restore last session when application starts: Determines whether documents start automatically with the last viewed session when you launch Foxit PDF Editor. If this option is selected, Foxit PDF Editor will automatically record the opened document and its viewing information (including page number, zoom ratio, etc.) every three minutes or at the time when you close the application, and display the last viewed session recorded when you launch Foxit PDF Editor next time (even when you relaunch Foxit PDF Editor after an unexpected quit). 

General

The General Preferences setting provides options on Basic Tools, Tab Bar, Status Bar, and Application Startup, etc. 

• Basic Tools