Updated 09/01/26
Explore New Horizons with Foxit PDF Editor for Mac (Subscription Release)
The Foxit PDF Editor for Mac User Manual (Subscription Release) is your comprehensive guide to the latest enhancements in Foxit's PDF editing software for macOS. Building upon the robust features of previous versions, this manual introduces users to new tools and integrations designed to elevate your PDF management experience.
What's New
1. Meet the newly enhanced Foxit AI Assistant - empower your work with intelligent Workspace and smarter interactions
Introduce Foxit Workspace
Create a project around your documents or a topic, then work with AI to review source materials, extract and organize information, draft content, and develop reusable and sharable outputs (including documents, images, presentations, mind maps, diagrams, infographics, web pages, and Markdown). Foxit Workspace transforms document-based work into a more connected process to help users complete real tasks, not just chat.
- Enhanced AI Chat experience — The redesigned AI Assistant Chat has been upgraded from a standard Q&A interface to an Agent that can execute in cycles, maintain context, and invoke tools. Under this agent-based structure, previous tools listed in More tools and certain ribbon commands have been redesigned as skills or generation modes via Chat (e.g., the new Edit PDF mode and Create Image mode, derived from Smart Command and Image Generation). The enhanced AI Chat also supports additional AI models, default connected apps (MCP connectors), and skills creation and management.
- Support for Local AI with BYOM and SLMs — Provide strict data security by keeping document content within the user’s environment while giving users control over which AI models run through custom models with Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) and enabling efficient on-device processing with SLMs.
- Convert selected formulas in PDFs to MathML or LaTeX via the AI Chat panel.
- Make document translation easier to control by letting users choose the pages to translate, translate images along with page text, choose Danish as a target language, and follow language-aware guidance during translation.
- The redesigned Intelligent Reading has been separated into two standalone features, Read Aloud and Smart Podcast, providing a more streamlined way to explore, understand, and work with document content. The Read Aloud feature has been further improved to support reading selected text and highlighting the text currently being read.
- Improve AI-generated bookmarks by delivering more accurate results with performance enhancements and clearer on-screen guidance.
2. Enhance Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MIP) support
- Display the sensitivity labels that apply only to files, keeping the labeling experience focused.
- Update the justification experience to ensure a complete, reliable audit trail for label changes.
- Extend support to organizations using Azure Government Cloud (GCC High).
- Enterprise admins can specify which authentication library (MSAL or ADAL) is used for sign-in with Microsoft Purview Information Protection via Foxit Customization Tool to align with their organization’s identity configuration.
3. Upgrade the OCR engine to strengthen component security and improve recognition reliability.
4. Optimize the notification mechanism and add options in Preferences to let users manage the display of notification messages for a better experience.
Who Should Use This Manual?
This manual is perfect for Mac users upgrading to Foxit PDF Editor (Subscription Release), as well as new users seeking to leverage the latest features for efficient and secure PDF document management.
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