Foxit doesn't seem to work very well

[geritac]

I tried THIS FILE. (http://ia350605.us.archive.org/3/items/selectionsfromol00bedeuoft/selectionsfromol00bedeuoft.pdf)

This is a solid Internet Archive PDF. It displays just fine in Acrobat. But Foxit crashes even when 'mousing over' the Object button in Editor.

In addition, there seems to be no way to address the particular PDF layers. There seems to be no way to turn off the background layer display. There seems to be no way to view or edit the text layer, which would be the whole point of getting a PDF editor in this case - to correct typos. What you'd want from an editor is a split-screen, one half with the page image, the other half with the 'text-behind', which after editing can be saved and the PDF updated in that way.

[Newuser]

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[geritac]

Get pdfxchangeviewer. It has more features than foxit, free and has plug-in for major browsers like IE, firefox and opera. It really rocks.
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/pdfx_viewer

I want to run in Win98SE, and those pdf-tools, etc, won't.

It's interesting that no one from Foxit monitors these forums. It's the sense I'm getting. I wonder if the problems I've had with the eval copies are not unknown?

[Neil Parks]

I want to run in Win98SE, and those pdf-tools, etc, won't.
In my experience, Foxit 2.2 is not suitable for use with 9x/ME. You might have better luck with Foxit 2.1.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_foxit/?3098

[dsergeant]

Earlier versions of Foxit, 1.5 or earlier, work fine with 98SE. All version 2's though crashes under it.

[geritac]

Earlier versions of Foxit, 1.5 or earlier, work fine with 98SE. All version 2's though crashes under it.

I tried Foxit 1.3 from oldapps.com. But it couldn't handle even the images that version 2 could.

Foxit handles PDF text files just fine. But it just can't manage with a PDF composed entirely of image files and layers. You can't turn off the background layer in Foxit. You can't edit the 'text-behind' in Foxit. And Foxit, like Adobe to be fair, will crash on certain JPEG2 images that perhaps are buggy.

It seems to me that if you are handling image only PDFs with 'text-behind', then Foxit isn't even an option, particularly since it doesn't exit any more gracefully from bad JPEG2 than Adobe does.

Wish I knew why people recommend Foxit. It seems underdesigned, even if it's not buggy on other people's systems. They shouldn't say, at the least, that it's Win98SE compatible. It's not.

[Silverscreen]

Get pdfxchangeviewer. It has more features than foxit, free and has plug-in for major browsers like IE, firefox and opera. It really rocks.
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/pdfx_viewerThanks Newuser for bringing the new competitor product to my attention.

I have now tried the product. I have also tried many other PDF viewers for Windows.

PDF-XChange PDF Viewer displays PDFs better than anyother PDF viewing application I have used to date, including the Adobe PDF viewers.

A major problem that I noted was memory management; the program does not manage memory well.

PDF-XChange PDF Viewer seems like it has potentional to become a great product.