


The page scrolling feature is invalid if finding text is not finished.Can’t keep refreshing the list of recent files in real time.Foxit can’t record the Navigation Panel status when a user exits.Foxit Reader uses Safe Reading Mode by default, to block malicious PDF’s. It has a highly streamlined user interface, small memory foot-print (typically less than 15Mb), fast launch and load speed (under three seconds).Īs a standard PDF reader, you get Zoom and Best-fit functions, Page Navigation, Bookmarks, Thumbnails, Text and Image Selection Tools, Snapshot, and Full Screen viewing. Version 1.1 looks to have been around since 2009. One suggestion I got back is Foxit Reader 1.1 for Desktop Linux,a free PDF document viewer provided by Foxit Corporation (free for non-commercial use). The question remained, is there a better open-source PDF reader? I know all the KDE users will shout Okular, but I run Gnome Desktop without the stack of KDE libs installed… It improved immensely around Ubuntu 10.10, loading and rendering documents and pages faster more smoothly. The native Linux equivalent, Evince, wasn’t good in Ubuntu 10.04, horribly slow and liable to crash. Having re-installed Ubuntu Karmic, I was trying to expunge as much the freedom-hating bloatware as I could and that includes Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader. Almost a year ago, I opened a thread on Full Circle Magazine forums asking what alternative PDF readers we have on Linux.
