Foxit Software Releases Foxit Reader 1.0 for Desktop Linux

[Grace]

The technologically advanced PDF reader enhances its support in Linux

Fremont, Calif. – April. 21, 2009 – Following a beta release (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/announcements/20090120ESai.html) in January, Foxit Software today is announcing the official Linux version of Foxit Reader 1.0, a freely downloadable PDF viewing application. With this release, it now supports the ability to reliably view and print PDF files across all major operating systems in the enterprise.

“Since the Linux beta version release, Foxit is becoming more active in Desktop Linux. Many of our customers were asking for Foxit Reader on Linux as they're using the popular Window version.” said Eugene Y. Xiong, Chief Executive Officer of Foxit Software Company. “And with the increasing demand of adoption of Linux operating system among enterprises especially among government and financial organizations, we will keep working on making this Linux version as powerful as the Window one in near future.”

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Screenshot of Foxit Reader 1.0 for Desktop Linux

"Because of its small size and amazing fast speed, Foxit Reader for Desktop Linux has been a focus for many enterprise customers who come to discuss with us the cooperation opportunity.” added George Z. Gao, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Foxit Software Company. “For example, recently Foxconn Technology Group, the foremost provider of joint development to global 3C leaders, has been working with us on the pre-installation of Foxit Reader on its laptop product which will be for sale soon.”

"The following Foxit Reader 1.1 for Desktop Linux will introduce some fabulous features, including multi-language support, review history, enhanced printing feature, etc. By delivering these new features and functionality enhancement, the next version will be more stable and reliable." said Malcolm J. Xue, Development Manager of Foxit Reader for Desktop Linux at Foxit Software Company.

Foxit Reader 1.0 for Desktop Linux can be downloaded in .tar, .sh and .rpm format, here (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/).

New feature in Foxit Reader 1.0 for Desktop Linux are listed below.

1. Add Chinese/Japanese/Korean support
2. Improved print quality with anti-aliasing feature
3. Add Preview/Next view feature
4. Add Save as feature

To learn more about Foxit Reader 1.0 for Desktop Linux, please click here (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux).

About Foxit Software Company

Founded in 2001, Foxit Software has been working on the electronic publishing and documenting field focusing on the implementation of PDF Core technology. Today, Foxit has become an industrial leader by offering its platform independent core technology capable of supporting PDF and other standard e-documenting formats. Foxit's product line covers multiple types of PDF applications across various mobile platforms and desktop platforms. Foxit is also a pioneer in offering OnDemand CM, a service-based content management system, built on a patent pending technology. In addition to Foxit's online paperless document services, Foxit maintains its efforts to stay green with the development of its new eBook reader, "eSlick," a device that eliminates the need for textbooks and any other documents that would normally be printed onto paper. For Foxit, pursuing environmental excellence has always been the top priority. For more information, please visit www.foxitsoftware.com.

[lovenemesis]

It is GREAT to see this final release! :1_11:

I made it to the top news today on LinuxTOY, the famous Linux website among Chinese.
Here is the permlink:
http://linuxtoy.org/archives/foxitreader-desktoplinux-10final-released.html

Thank you for this great reader!

Cheers,

[lovenemesis]

Well, it seems that the rpm and sh formats are not available in Download page.

[lovenemesis]

Although I found the rpm format through a bit url guess, I still hope it would be shown on Download page.

A bit problem about this new rpm version, the version number is EXACTLY the same as the Beta released, which makes it impossible to upgrade from the existing beta version. I have to erase the Beta first in order to perform the installation of this final release.

[apron]

Hi lovenemesis,
Thanks much for your feedback. It's really our fault giving the same name to the two versions.
We are not familiar with the linux software packages' release. But we believe it will be better and better with your kindly reminder.:1_01:

[melviX]

Hello!
I am using Foxit Reader 1.0 with PuppyRus Linux (the Russian branch of Puppy Linux):
www.puppyrus.org
Working very nice.
But I am interesting multilingual. May be Foxit Reader in Russian?
Sorry for my English.

[GPFault]

Hello.
I have problems with horizontal scrolling with horizontal mouse wheel (emulated by eeepc touchpad) - it looks like that main pdf view window does not support it for some reason.

I don't think it's my hardware or GTK configuration problem because horizontal scroll with horizontal mouse wheel do work in other applications and even in Foxit itself - it DO work in bookmarks sidebar (when mouse is over it and bookmarks have very long names), but not in the main pdf view window.

[briceburg]

Will a 64 bit version be made available? I'm having issues running the 32bit version on a pure 64bit system.

Thanks for the work!

[christina]

Thanks melviX. I have forwarded you requirement to our internal feature request list for our development team.
Suggestion Mantis ID:0009186

Hello GPFault, sorry for that. I will forward this to our tester team for further testing. Thanks.
Reported Mantis ID:0009187

Sorry briceburg, 64 bit version is unavailable now. I have forwarded your need to our internal feature request list. Our developers will look into it.
Suggestion Mantis ID: 0009188

[nortexoid]

This is a nice alternative to Adobe on linux, especially in cases where Evince (or perhaps anything based on poppler <= 0.10.5 cairo?) renders the document quite poorly. This is a known bug with Evince. However, I have some suggestions.

While the Foxit icons are nice and everything, there should be an option to hide the toolbar (like there is in the Windows version). And it would be nice if it were GTK+ based so that it uses system-wide icons, etc. (I realize this last suggestion is not for everyone, such as KDE users. But given the popularity of Ubuntu, and Gnome generally, I thought I would mention it.)

Is there any plan to make the linux version just as feature rich as the Windows one? At least the ability to have basic bookmark editing (adding, deleting, etc.) and highlighting would be a boon.

Thanks!

[christina]

Thanks for your suggestions. I will forwarded them to our development team.

We will add more features for linux version. Thanks.

[nortexoid]

Thanks Christina.

One other thing I noticed is that annotation markup does not display--e.g. highlighting, comments, etc. This is a bit unusual.

[christina]

Oh, that's normal. Currently linux reader doesn't support annotation.

[nortexoid]

Sorry, I must not have been clear. If I add a comment to a pdf using Windows Foxit (or Acrobat Pro), that comment will not be visible to view (not edit) in Foxit Linux. That's not normal. E.g. Evince has limited viewing capability of annotations. And of course acroread for linux views everything just fine.

Is this a problem with the way Foxit Linux views layers?

[christina]

Thanks. I understand what you mean. Current Foxit linux version doesn't add handles to render annotations or comments. We will support it in our future versions. Thanks.

[nortexoid]

I've noticed that "fit to width" zooms just a little bit too much. It causes a horizontal scroll bar to show on the bottom, and using the hand tool one can wiggle the page slightly horizontally.

The only thing that concerns me is that the horizontal scroll bar takes up vertical screen real estate which could be better used for viewing the pdf. (Also having the option to hide the bottom status bar would be nice.)

Sorry to be a such a nitpicker!

[christina]

Thanks. Just feel free to tell us your thoughts. That will help to improve our product.

[nortexoid]

I think there is an enormous demand for a pdf reader with basic annotation markup features, such as commenting, highlighting and bookmarking. This demand is growing with the growing number of linux users. What I find incredible is that this demand is still completely unmet. When might we see these sorts of features come to Foxit Reader linux? This year?

[luishcq]

Hi!
Just to tell that I love foxit for windows (yes, it´s complete, and smaller, faster, smarter than the big similar program), and I will be very happy when you release a version for 64 bit linuxes. With kpdf and xpdf (the readers I have in my 64 bit system) I miss some features I have in the windows foxit.
I just downloaded the current linux version (32 bit) and I´ll try it at home tonight.
Thank you very much for all foxit reader releases you made available for us! :1_11:

[Wizard]

Thank you very much for this!

A couple of requests:
1) I use a laptop and font rendering is horrible. Please add an "optimized text for lcd screen" option!
2) The options to hide the navigation panel, bookmarks etc are not remembered, so everytime I start foxit reader, they show up, even though I don't want them. Can you make it so that these options are remembered?

[christina]

Thanks for posting. Your requests have been forwarded to our developement team for reference.

Mantis ID:0009610

[RealNC]

I've just installed this on my 64-bit Linux machine (Gentoo). No offense, but this is the ugliest thing I ever saw :P

http://i41.tinypic.com/311utmb.png

Application menus, scrollbars, buttons, etc, look horrible. Font rendering is even more horrible. It doesn't respect user choices in the Gtk theme (maybe because it's 32-bit only, not sure).

The only good thing about it is that it's fast. But it's so... butt-ugly that it's unusable.

I'm not flaming here; I use the Windows version at work and would like a Linux version to use at home, but this is not a Linux version! It's even worse than running the Windows version in Wine.

[christina]

Thanks for telling us your experience. Current Linux version is a basic one, it leaves much space to improve.
I will forward your comments to our developers team.

[nortexoid]

I've just installed this on my 64-bit Linux machine (Gentoo). No offense, but this is the ugliest thing I ever saw :P

Application menus, scrollbars, buttons, etc, look horrible. Font rendering is even more horrible. It doesn't respect user choices in the Gtk theme (maybe because it's 32-bit only, not sure).

The only good thing about it is that it's fast. But it's so... butt-ugly that it's unusable.

I'm not flaming here; I use the Windows version at work and would like a Linux version to use at home, but this is not a Linux version! It's even worse than running the Windows version in Wine.

It's not GTK-based so it won't inherit your system theme (e.g. scrollbars, icons, etc.). A lot of applications are like this, e.g. any java- or Qt-based app. It's not a fault of the developer for not using GTK+, but I admit I would prefer it over other toolkits since I use gnome, and probably the majority do. But honestly, your remarks don't make much sense here.

[chaz6]

Foxit works flawlessly for me on Linux. I would like to have a plugin for Firefox that allows embedded viewing of PDF files without having to open the external Foxit application.

[lovenemesis]

Hello!

It comes to the end of July. Will the version 1.1 be released as scheduled?

Cheers,

[christina]

It will be soon. Thanks.

[abkaroh]

great

i was looking for this program

so thank u so much

[kotarak]

Thank you for the port.

I noticed an issue when running in 16bit depth, the program crashes upon loading a pdf, though the program runs fine up until you try to open the pdf file (plaintext, no images). Works fine in 24bit, but would be nice if it could be made to work in 16bit aswell =)

[bebo1488]

I am very thankful to you for this valuable information.

[Dollar hunter]

Nice to see the new release of this,is this the final release ?

[christina]

I don't think so.