Foxit PhantomPDF User Manual Phantom PDF 9.0.1 For Windows PDF9.0.1 EN

User Manual: Pdf PhantomPDF - 9.0.1 for Windows - User Manual User Guide for Foxit PhantomPDF Software, Free Instruction Manual

Open the PDF directly: View PDF PDF.
Page Count: 323 [warning: Documents this large are best viewed by clicking the View PDF Link!]

Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
1
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
2
© Foxit Software Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
No part of this document can be reproduced, transferred, distributed or stored in any format without the prior
written permission of Foxit.
Anti-Grain Geometry - Version 2.4
© Maxim Shemanarev (http://www.antigrain.com)
Portions of this product Copyright [2001-2017] Solid Documents
Permission to copy, use, modify, sell and distribute this software is granted provided this copyright notice appears
in all copies. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty, and with no claim as to its
suitability for any purpose.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
3
Contents
Contents ............................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 1 – Introduction ....................................................................................... 6
PhantomPDF Overview ..................................................................................................................... 6
What’s New? ..................................................................................................................................... 7
About the User Manual ..................................................................................................................... 9
Quick Installation Guide .................................................................................................................... 9
Online Help ....................................................................................................................................... 9
Foxit Plug-In Platform ...................................................................................................................... 10
GPO ................................................................................................................................................. 11
Using Foxit Setup Customization Tool ............................................................................................. 12
Chapter 2 – Get Started ........................................................................................ 13
Workspace Basics ............................................................................................................................ 13
Customize the Skin .......................................................................................................................... 18
Set Preferences ............................................................................................................................... 18
Chapter 3 – Read .................................................................................................. 35
Open PDFs ....................................................................................................................................... 35
Save PDFs ........................................................................................................................................ 36
Close a PDF ...................................................................................................................................... 37
Export PDFs ..................................................................................................................................... 38
Integrate with IFilter........................................................................................................................ 39
Industry Standard Validation and Creation ..................................................................................... 39
View PDFs ........................................................................................................................................ 40
View 3D Content in PDFs ................................................................................................................. 56
Select & Copy .................................................................................................................................. 57
Word Count ..................................................................................................................................... 58
Asian Languages .............................................................................................................................. 58
Chapter 4 – Create ............................................................................................... 60
Create a PDF in Different Ways ....................................................................................................... 60
Create and Customize a PDF Portfolio ............................................................................................ 76
OCR PDFs into searchable and editable PDFs ................................................................................. 76
Create a table of contents from bookmarks ................................................................................... 79
Chapter 5 – Edit ................................................................................................... 80
Undo and Redo ............................................................................................................................... 80
Links ................................................................................................................................................ 80
Bookmarks ...................................................................................................................................... 84
Destinations .................................................................................................................................... 87
File Attachments ............................................................................................................................. 88
Images ............................................................................................................................................. 91
PDF Optimizer ................................................................................................................................. 97
Action Wizard (Business Edition Only) ............................................................................................ 98
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
4
Work with Video & Audio ............................................................................................................... 99
Find and Replace Text.................................................................................................................... 103
Paragraph Editing .......................................................................................................................... 104
Objects .......................................................................................................................................... 104
About the Image Editor (Business Edition Only) ........................................................................... 118
Spelling Check ............................................................................................................................... 127
Working with Layers ...................................................................................................................... 127
PDF Properties .............................................................................................................................. 131
Chapter 6 – Organize .......................................................................................... 133
Insert Pages ................................................................................................................................... 133
Rotate, Move, Swap and Delete Pages .......................................................................................... 136
Extract, Duplicate and Replace Pages ........................................................................................... 138
Split PDFs into multiple files .......................................................................................................... 139
Crop Pages ..................................................................................................................................... 140
Flatten Pages ................................................................................................................................. 141
Header & Footer, Watermark & Background to PDFs ................................................................... 142
Bates Numbering (Business Edition Only) ..................................................................................... 144
Adding Format Page Numbers ...................................................................................................... 144
Chapter 7 – Comments ....................................................................................... 146
Commenting Commands............................................................................................................... 146
Change the Appearance of Comments ......................................................................................... 159
Managing Comments .................................................................................................................... 160
Chapter 8 – Share PDFs ...................................................................................... 169
Email Documents .......................................................................................................................... 169
Send to Evernote ........................................................................................................................... 169
Send to OneNote ........................................................................................................................... 169
SharePoint Integration .................................................................................................................. 170
Shared Review and Email Review .................................................................................................. 172
NetDocuments Integration ........................................................................................................... 176
iManage Work Integration ............................................................................................................ 177
OpenText eDOCS Integration ........................................................................................................ 179
Chapter 9 – Forms .............................................................................................. 181
Interactive Form and Non-interactive form .................................................................................. 181
Fill in PDF Forms ............................................................................................................................ 182
Comment on Forms....................................................................................................................... 184
Manage Form Data ........................................................................................................................ 184
Form Fields .................................................................................................................................... 186
JavaScript ...................................................................................................................................... 209
Chapter 10 – Security ......................................................................................... 212
Check PDF Security ........................................................................................................................ 212
Password Protection & Certificate Protection .............................................................................. 212
AD RMS Protection (Business Edition Only) .................................................................................. 217
Remove Hidden Data .................................................................................................................... 230
Redaction (Business Edition Only) ................................................................................................. 230
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
5
Windows Information Protection (WIP) ........................................................................................ 233
FIPS mode ..................................................................................................................................... 236
Chapter 11 – ConnectedPDF ............................................................................... 238
Chapter 12 – Signature ....................................................................................... 239
Digital Signature ............................................................................................................................ 239
Sign PDFs with DocuSign® .............................................................................................................. 247
Quick PDF Signature ...................................................................................................................... 248
Chapter 13 – Accessibility ................................................................................... 251
Accessibility Check and Fixes ........................................................................................................ 251
Accessible reading and navigation through accessibility preference setting and shortcut keys ... 259
Create accessible PDFs (Business only) ......................................................................................... 260
Chapter 14 – Print .............................................................................................. 267
Print a PDF document ................................................................................................................... 267
The Print Dialog Box ...................................................................................................................... 268
Set Foxit PhantomPDF Printer Properties ..................................................................................... 270
Chapter 15 – Appendices .................................................................................... 275
Quick Installation Guide ................................................................................................................ 275
GPO Manual .................................................................................................................................. 284
SharePoint Configuration .............................................................................................................. 296
Quick Start for Azure Active Directory Rights Management ......................................................... 298
Web Service Configuration ............................................................................................................ 298
Work with PhantomPDF via VBA scripts in Excel .......................................................................... 310
Keyboard Shortcuts ....................................................................................................................... 313
Single-key Accelerators ................................................................................................................. 316
Command Lines ............................................................................................................................. 322
Contact Us ......................................................................................................... 323
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
6
Chapter 1 – Introduction
PhantomPDF Overview
Welcome to Foxit PhantomPDF™- Business Ready PDF! Award-winning Foxit PhantomPDF provides
the right features at the right price, allowing you to produce great looking PDF document and forms
quickly, affordably, and securely. Foxit PhantomPDF comes in two editions: Foxit PhantomPDF
Standard to fit the small and medium sized businesses, and Foxit PhantomPDF Business to fit the
large enterprises.
Foxit PhantomPDF Standard
Foxit PhantomPDF Standard enables businesses to create, edit, and secure reliable PDF documents
quickly, easily, and at a cost you can afford.
XFA Form Filling
Direct Editing
Read out Loud
Robust Document Security
Form Fields
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Export PDF to Image
Industry Validation
PDF Optimizer
SharePoint Integration
DocuSign
Participate in a Shared Review
Foxit PhantomPDF Business
Foxit PhantomPDF Business provides business the security that ensures regulatory compliance and
corporate governance of their important documents and archives and to ensure documents don’t
change after they are approved. It stands up to the demands of large enterprises but lightweight
enough to easily deploy to thousands of users without exhausting resources. Supports the right
features at the right price with the quality and support you expect from an enterprise solution.
Redaction
Document Certification
XFA Form Filling
Bates Number
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
7
Read out Loud
Microsoft® Active Directory® Rights Management Service Protector and Policy Manager
High Compression
SharePoint Integration
DocuSign
Send for Shared Review
What’s New?
What’s new in Foxit PhantomPDF 9.0?
New features:
Accessibility Features
Evaluates the accessibility of PDFs and fixes accessibility issues in PDFs to make it easier for
users with disabilities to use PDFs, with or without screen readers or other assistive
software/hardware.
Provides powerful tools and panels to tag PDFs, set alternate text, touch up reading order, and
more to make PDFs accessible.
Supports accessible reading and navigation by setting accessibility preferences that control the
document display and reading order, using keyboard shortcuts, and reading PDFs in reflow
view.
Exports PDF to accessible text that can be converted to a form that vision-impaired users can
use.
PDF 2.0 Support
Allows users to view PDF documents that are compliant with parts of PDF 2.0 reference to keep
up with the ISO development process.
Integration with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Provides interfaces to allow users to use VBA scripts to have PhantomPDF work with Microsoft
Office, including PDF conversion from Excel, PDF form filling, OCR, and more.
Reflow editing mode
Offers reflow editing mode for users to edit document content in a continuous mode, like in a
word processor.
Search and replace
Allows users to find and replace text in a PDF document, a useful time-saving feature for
document workers.
Layer editing
Supports the ability to import, merge, flatten, reorder, and delete layers in PDF documents.
(Business Edition)
Supports the ability to reorder and delete layers in PDF documents. (Standard Edition)
Microsoft Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
8
Enables users to add protection to PDFs with WIP system that helps to protect against
accidental data leak on enterprise-owned devices and personal devices.
FIPS Compliance
Provides a FIPS mode to make data protection compliant with Federal Information Processing
Standard (FIPS).
Find Command
Finds a command by typing the command name and bring features to your fingertips with ease.
Adds the “Destination” panel to allow users to create and manage named destinations in a
PDF which can be used to link to from different positions in a PDF.
Allows users to select an area in PDF and export it to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and
Rich Text formats.
Adds an approved trusted list of digital certificates for convenient signature validation.
Enables users to edit PDF with Type 3 font text with the Edit Text and the Edit Object tools.
Protects PDF files using the Microsoft PDF V2 IRM Specification.
Supports importing form data from a .csv file.
Supports exporting digital IDs to .fdf files.
Enhancements in Foxit PhantomPDF 9.0:
Improved installation and activation
Allows users to disable the Foxit PDF creator plugin in IE/Chrome/Firefox during installation,
and activate Foxit PhantomPDF with activation code via command line.
Advanced search
Highlights all the text search results in PDF file.
Searches for instances that match any of the keywords.
PDF portfolio enhancements
Enables users to export all files in a PDF portfolio when combining files into a single PDF file.
Protect PDF portfolios with passwords and certificates.
PDF creation enhancements
Allows users to add Excel sheet names or PowerPoint slide titles as PDF bookmarks in the
created PDF.
Enables users to order files by bates numbering when combining multiple PDFs into a single
PDF file.
Adds more options to control more features through GPO templates, including the features
of OpenText, NetDocuments, and iManage plugins.
Creates a PDF form from an existing file directly without “Run Form Field Recognition”,
streamlining PDF form creation from existing files.
Adds options in the context menu to open the directory of the current PDF file and to copy
the file path to the clipboard.
Provides an option to trust all root certificates in Windows Certificate Store to streamline
signature validating.
Allows users to choose a page as a stamp when creating a custom stamp from a PDF with
multiple pages.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
9
Enhances Foxit RMS protection to make the RMS-protected files compliant with PDF 2.0.
Adds an option to send all open tabs as attachments by email when sharing PDFs.
Enables users to edit existing MST files with Foxit Customization Tool.
Supports text formatting in the popup box for note comments.
Exports highlighted text as a TXT file.
Exports tracker details to a PDF during shared review.
About the User Manual
This user manual covers all features included in Foxit PhantomPDF.
Quick Installation Guide
To get installation, registration, uninstallation and update instructions step by step, please refer
to Foxit PhantomPDF Quick Installation Guide.
Online Help
You can get online help about how to read and work with PDF files from within Foxit PhantomPDF
using the Help Center and Content-sensitive Help features.
Help Center
Help Center helps you navigate top help topics and get help online. To access the Help Center,
please click Help tab > Help > Help Center. In the Help Center, you can input a keyword in the
Search box to search for any desired topic. While reading the help contents, you can click
to move back to the previous view, or click to return to the Home Page of the Help Center.
Content-sensitive Help
Content-sensitive Help assists users by providing help based on a specific task they perform. This
enables users to get specific information about whatever feature of the application they are using
at the given moment.
To access Content-sensitive Help:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
10
Hover your mouse over a button, and you will see the tip which gives you the basic instruction of
the feature. If Foxit PhantomPDF contains additional help about the feature, you can click Tell me
more to learn more about it in Help Center.
Foxit Plug-In Platform
For flexible and convenient management of plugins, Foxit PhantomPDF offers a Plug-in Platform,
in which you can view the plug-in status, learn the information about the plugins installed, as well
as manage the plug-ins as needed.
To open Foxit Plug-in Platform, please choose Help > Product > Foxit Plug-Ins.
Plug-in Status
Certified: Shows whether the signature of the plug-in is valid or not.
Loaded: Shows whether the plug-in has been loaded successfully or not.
Note: Some plug-ins are not loaded immediately (i.e. the Certified and Loaded items are
unchecked). These plug-ins will be loaded and certified after you use the related features.
Plug-in Information
In addition to plug-in status, you can learn more information about the plug-in installed,
including the name, date, description and legal copyright.
To learn the details of a plug-in, please click More… under the general description of the plug-in
in the Foxit Plug-in Platform.
Plug-in Management
Within Foxit Plug-in Platform, you can manage the plug-ins as needed, including installing,
enabling, disabling and uninstalling plug-ins.
Installing a Plug-in
To install a plug-in, please follow the steps below:
Select Help > Product > Foxit Plug-Ins to open Foxit Plug-In Platform;
Click Install Plugin > choose the plug-in file (in .xml format) > click Open.
Then Foxit PhantomPDF will verify whether the signature of the plug-in to be installed is valid or
not. If it is valid, Foxit PhantomPDF will load the plug-in directly; if not, a prompt message will
pop up (as shown below), and the installation will be terminated.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
11
Note: The .xml and .fpi files of a plug-in to be installed should be placed in the same folder,
otherwise, installation will fail.
Disabling a Plug-in
To disable a plug-in, please follow the steps below:
Select Help > Product > About Foxit Plug-Ins to open Foxit Plug-in Platform.
Select the plug-in you want to disable, and click the Disable button to disable it.
Enabling a plug-in
To enable a plug-in, please follow the steps below:
Select Help > Product > About Foxit Plug-Ins to open Foxit Plug-in Platform.
Select the plug-in to be enabled, and click the Undo Disable button to enable it.
Uninstalling a plug-in
To uninstall a plug-in, please follow the steps below:
Select Help > Product > About Foxit Plug-Ins to open Foxit Plug-in Platform.
Select the plug-in to be uninstalled, and click the Uninstall button to uninstall it.
Note:
1. All the operations to the plug-ins will take effect after you restart Foxit PhantomPDF.
2. Foxit PhantomPDF includes plug-ins that are necessary for the realization of its functionalities or
are necessarily required for maintenance. To ensure normal operation, you are not allowed to
disable or uninstall these plug-ins (such as Foxit Updater plugin, Foxit Plug-in Platform plugin, etc.)
GPO
Group Policy (GPO), a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems, is a set of
rules that control the working environment of user and computer accounts. It offers the centralized
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
12
management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users' settings in an Active
Directory environment.
For instructions to use group policy of Foxit PhantomPDF, please refer to Foxit PhantomPDF GPO
Manual.
Using Foxit Setup Customization Tool
You can use the Foxit Setup Customization Tool to configure the installer prior to deployment for
organizations or businesses. For example, you can license the product on a volume scale with the
Foxit Setup Customization Tool to prevent the need to register and personalize each copy of the
installation.
To configure Foxit PhantomPDF with the Foxit Setup Customization Tool, please follow the steps
below:
- Open the Foxit Setup Customization Tool.
- Click File > Open to open the application (MSI file) that you want to customize.
- Open the following panels to customize the related settings in Foxit PhantomPDF.
General: Customize the default location and other common settings.
Features: Specify which features will be installed by default.
Shortcuts: Choose whether to create a specific shortcut.
Add File: Add your own files into the MSI package.
- Click File > Save to save the customization. The customized package will be saved as an MST
file.
- Use the following command to apply the MST file during deployment:
msiexec /i Setup.msi TRANSFORMS=xxx.mst
Note:
1. The customized MST file needs to be deployed with the original MSI file.
2. Foxit Setup Customization Tool is only available for Foxit PhantomPDF & Reader 7.3 and newer
versions. To ensure successful customization, the version of the Foxit Setup Customization Tool
should be the same as that of Foxit Reader & PhantomPDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
13
Chapter 2 – Get Started
The Foxit PhantomPDF workspace is packed with commands that help make working with PDF files
easier, and is organized into a document pane, a navigation pane, toolbar pane menu bar and status
bar. A good way to get up to speed in using Foxit PhantomPDF is by familiarizing yourself with its
workspace.
Workspace Basics
Foxit PhantomPDF provides an intuitive user interface with a menu bar, a toolbar, a navigation pane,
work area and status bar.
About Start Page
The Start Page appears when you first start Foxit PhantomPDF and shows the recent documents
opened, helpful product tutorials, and more. You can click any document you recently opened from
the recent document list or choose one tutorial for any feature to learn about our product.
The Start Page will continue to appear every time you start the program until you uncheck the
Show Start Page at File > Preferences > General > Application Startup.
Toolbar
The toolbar displays the File page (the backstage view like Office 2013) and other tabs with
different commands. You can easily and quickly find the command you need by clicking in the Tell
me what you want to do… box (or press Alt +Q) near a bubble on the menu bar and typing
the name or description of the command you need. Then Foxit PhantomPDF will display a list of
matching commands from which you can select and activate the desired feature.
Toolbar under the Home Tab
Note: Position the pointer over a command to see a description of the command.
Click File to create, open, save to manage your PDF files.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
14
File Page
Show/Hide Toolbar
To show/hide all toolbars, please do the following:
To hide the toolbar, please click the arrow located on the lower-right corner of the ribbon.
To show the toolbar, choose a tab and click the pushpin icon located on the lower-right
corner of the ribbon.
Right-click toolbar and check Minimize the Ribbon option to hide the ribbon toolbar and
uncheck the option to have the ribbon displayed.
Set Favorite Toolbar
The Ribbon is designed to help you find the commands in an easy and convenient way. Foxit
PhantomPDF gives you the capability to personalize and fine-tune the Ribbon in the way you want.
With this feature, you can customize the default Ribbon, and create custom tabs or groups with
your favorite commands.
To customize the Ribbon, you can right click the Ribbon, choose Customize the Ribbon from the
context menu to bring out the Customize Tools dialog box first, and then follow the steps below.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
15
Create a new tab
To create a new tab, please do one of the following:
Select the tab after which you want to add the new tab, and then click New Tab.
(Alternatively) Right-click the tab after which you want to add the new tab, and then choose
New Tab from the context menu.
Add a new group to a tab
To add a new group to a tab, please do one of the following:
Select the tab to which you want to add the group, and then click New Group.
(Alternatively) Right-click the tab to which you want to add the group, and then choose New
Group from the context menu.
Rename a tab or group
Select the tab or group to be renamed, and click Rename.
(Alternatively) Right-click the tab or group to be renamed, and choose Rename from the
context menu.
In the Rename dialog box, input the new name and click OK.
For a custom group, you can also choose the display symbol from the Rename dialog box.
Add commands to a group
Select the group under which you want to add a command.
Choose the command category and the desired command from the Choose command from
list.
Click Add to add the selected command to the desired group.
Remove a tab, group or command
To remove a tab, group or command, please do one of the following:
Select the tab, group or command to be removed, and click Remove.
(Alternatively) Right-click the tab, group or command to be removed, and choose Delete from
the context menu.
Reorder the tabs or groups
To reorder the tabs or groups, please do one of the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
16
Select the tab or group you want to reorder, then click the Up or Down arrow
to move accordingly.
(Alternatively) Right-click the tab or group you want to reorder, and then select Move Item
Up or Move Item Down to move accordingly.
Reset the Ribbon
Click Reset in the Customize Tools dialog box to reset the Ribbon to the default settings.
Import a customized Ribbon
Click Import.
In the Open dialog box, select the Ribbon customization file (.xml file), and click Open.
Note: After importing a Ribbon customization file, you will lose all the arrangements you have
customized previously. If you want to revert to the customization you currently have, it is easier to
export the customized Ribbon before importing any customization.
Export a customized Ribbon
Click Export.
In the Save As dialog box, specify the file name and path and click Save.
Note:
1. After customization, you need to click OK in the Customize Ribbon tab to save and apply your
customizations to the Ribbon.
2. To help you distinguish a default tab or group from the customized ones, the custom tabs or
groups in the Customize the Ribbon list are tabbed with “(Custom)” after the name (like this:
), but the word “(Custom)” will not appear in the Ribbon.
3. The commands in the default group under a default tab are displayed in grey, and they cannot
be renamed, reordered, or removed.
4. You cannot remove default tabs in Foxit PhantomPDF.
Mouse/Touch Mode
Foxit PhantomPDF adds a Mouse/Touch Mode button on the Quick Access toolbar. In Touch Mode,
the buttons within the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar will appear with more space surrounding
them onscreen, making it easier to work on touch devices. To toggle between Mouse Mode and
Touch Mode, please click the button on the Quick Access toolbar.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
17
Navigation Panels
Show or hide the navigation panels
The buttons on the left side of the navigation pane provides easy access to various panels, such as
the Bookmarks panel button and the Pages thumbnails button .
To show the navigation panels, use keyboard shortcut F4, or click View > View Setting >
Navigation Panels > Show Navigation Panels, or right-click on the page and choose
Show Navigation Panels.
To hide the navigation panels, use keyboard shortcut F4, or click View > View Setting >
Navigation Panels > Hide Navigation Panels, or right-click on the page and choose Hide
Navigation Panels.
To open a navigation panel, click its button on the left side of the navigation pane.
To close a navigation panel, click its button on the left side of the navigation pane.
Adjust the navigation pane
Like the toolbars, the navigation pane can be docked in the navigation pane or float anywhere in
the workspace. You can choose to hide or close the panels that you don't need and open the
ones you do. What’s more, you can also adjust the width of the navigation pane easily.
1. Viewing a panel in the navigation pane
By default, all the panels dock in the navigation pane with a set of panel buttons appearing
on the left side of the work area. Do the following:
Select the button for the panel on the left side of the navigation pane.
2. Changing the display area for navigation pane
To change the view area of the navigation pane, drag its right border to adjust the width.
To minimize or maximize the navigation pane, click on the button / at the top right
corner of the navigation pane.
3. Docking or floating a navigation pane
To float a navigation panel, drag the panel button into the document pane.
To move a panel, drag it by its panel button to another location.
To dock a floating panel, double-click its title bar.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
18
Status Bar
The status bar is an area of the workspace that displays the page number where you are, the
number of total pages, page transition buttons, zoom buttons, etc. for view setting. The status bar
is open by default when you open a PDF. In the View ribbon, the items on the View Setting tab help
you to show or hide the status bar.
Show Status Bar: If you check it, the status bar will appear in the bottom of the workspace.
Auto-hide Status Bar: If you check it, the status bar is hidden. But if you put the cursor near the
bottom of the page, the status bar will appear.
Hide Status Bar: If you check it, the status bar will be hidden.
Customize the Skin
There are five kinds of skin, Classic, Black, Blue, Orange and Purple that allow the user to change
the look of the software.
To change the skin of the workspace, please do the following:
Go to File > Change Skin.
Check the skin you like and click OK.
Set Preferences
Many program settings are specified in the Preferences dialog box, including settings for File
Associations, Forms, Full Screen, General, History, JavaScript, Languages, OCR, Page Display, PDF/A,
Reading, RMS Setting, Security, Signature, and Trust Manager. Once you set preferences, they
remain in effect until you change them.
1. Choose File > Preferences.
2. Select the type of preference you want to change under the list of categories.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
19
Accessibility
Document Colors Options
Replace document colors: Check to activate other options to change the document colors.
A. Use Windows color scheme: Sets document colors according to the color scheme of your
Windows preferences.
B. Use High-Contrast colors: Choose the high-contrast color combination for page
background and document text to improve readability.
C. Custom color: Changes the color of Page Background and Document Text.
D. Only change the color of black text: Change only the black text and leave the colored text
unchanged when you replace document colors.
E. Change the color of text or black line art: Change the color of text or black line arts when
you replace document colors.
Override Page Display
A. Always use Page Layout Style: Set a page layout as default for all PDF documents and
override other page display settings.
B. Always use Zoom Setting: Specify a default zoom setting for all PDF documents and
override other page display settings.
Other Accessibility Options
A. Use document structure for tab order when no explicit tab order is specified: Improve the
navigation of form fields and links that don’t specify a tab order.
B. Always use the system selection color: Override the default selection color (blue) with a
color that the system specified.
C. Show Portfolios in Files mode: Display PDF Portfolio component files and file details in a
list.
Accessibility Checker Option
Show accessibility checker options dialog when the checker start: check this option to show
the Accessibility Checker Options dialog box when you run Full Check.
Commenting
Viewing Comments
A. Pop-up opacity: Sets the opacity of popup notes for annotation commands.
B. Ensure that pop-ups are visible as the document is scrolled: Ensure that the pop-up boxes
float along with the page as the document is scrolled. This option is checked by default.
Making Comments
A. Always use User Name of the log-in account for Author name: Use the user name of the
log-in account as the author name while making comments. If a user does not set the
user name for the Foxit log-in account, the prefix of the email address will be used as the
author name instead.
B. Copy selected text into Highlight, Squiggly Underline, Underline, and Strikeout comment
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
20
pop-ups: Check this option to copy and paste the selected text to comment pop-up notes
automatically when you highlight, squiggly underline, underline, or strikeout annotation
in PDF documents.
Pencil Setting:
A. Enable to select pencil annotation when drawing: when the Pencil command is selected,
the cursor changes into a pencil . If this option is selected, the pencil changes into an
arrow when you put it over a pencil annotation, and you can click the annotation to
select it. If the option is not selected, the pencil will not change into an arrow.
B. Click to create annotations: if selected, you start to draw with the pencil when you click
on the page, and in other words, only one click creates a pencil annotation; if not selected,
you do not start to draw until you click and drag the pencil.
C. Set Timeout: specifies a period of time within which all of the drawings/plans completed
is one pencil annotation, after which what you draw is another pencil annotation.
Editing: Sets the text direction for text comments, including left to right and right to left.
ConnectedPDF
Data Collection
Allow usage data to be used in ConnectedPDF features: If this option is checked, the document
usage data will be shared with Foxit servers when you are using ConnectedPDF features. This data
will be used for development purposes and enhancing user experience only. You can click here to
learn about the privacy policy.
Use ConnectedPDF Format
1. Automatically save PDF files in ConnectedPDF format (including those created from plugins):
If this option is checked, Foxit PhantomPDF will automatically convert the files into
ConnectedPDF format when creating or saving PDF files.
2. Automatically convert Office files to Connected when converting to PDF via Office add-in: If
this option is checked, after converting the Office document to ConnectedPDF format, the
Office document will become connected, and you will then be able to view the document
homepage of the converted ConnectedPDF by clicking the Document Homepage button under
the FOXIT PDF tab in Microsoft Office.
How to show web pages
When using ConnectedPDF, Foxit PhantomPDF will display ConnectedPDF-related information
(such as the Document Homepage and Personal Homepage) in web pages. You can choose to
display the web pages in the tabs within the application, or in your default browser.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
21
Default Permissions
Document owners can restrict some features, including Register New Version and Start Connected
Review, to better control documents by adding default permission settings. By default, Started
Connected Review is restricted and other users who want to start a Connected Review session will
need to apply to the document owner.
Create PDF
Create PDF feature allows users to set the Page Size of PDF to be created.
A. Fixed size: Sets the size and direction of PDF through drop-down list.
B. Custom: Customizes the Page Size of PDF to be created. You can select the units first and then
set the width and height of page as needed.
C. Insert printed PDFs into previously generated documents, except those created by Foxit
PhantomPDF: Check it to append newly generated PDF files to a previously generated one
which are created by Print command in other application using Foxit PhantomPDF Printer.
D. Allow pop up alert when creating PDF: Check this option to show message when converting
PDFs in Microsoft Office by the Foxit PDF add-in.
Documents
The Document of the Preferences dialog provides several ways to browse PDF documents.
Open Settings
1. Allow multiple instances: Creates a new Foxit PhantomPDF window when double-clicked to
open a PDF file.
2. Alert user when documents request Full Screen: A message box will pop up to confirm the
operation when opening a PDF which has been defined to be opened in full screen mode.
3. In Web Browser, display PDF in Read Mode by default: Opens a PDF in Read Mode
automatically in web browser.
4. In Foxit PhantomPDF, please choose the mode for Display PDF Mode: Display the PDFs in Read
Mode or Full Screen Mode or normal way automatically when opening PDFs with Foxit
PhantomPDF.
Prompt Messages
1. Display a prompt before closing all tabs: When you close a window with multiple tabs, Foxit
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
22
PhantomPDF will ask you to confirm your choice. This prevents you from accidentally closing
the whole window when you intend to close only the current tab.
2. Automatically save document as e-mail attachment: Automatically save the changes you
made to a document and attach the modified document to your email system for sending.
Measurement Units
Sets unit of page dimensions given in the status bar and print dialog.
PDF/A View mode
Sets to view documents in PDF/A view mode (i.e. read-only mode) to prevent modifications
to the documents.
1. Never: Never open documents in PDF/A view mode.
2. Only for PDF/A documents: Switch to read-only mode automatically when a PDF/A
document is opened.
Save Setting
Configure the time intervals for when the document will be automatically saved. Check Save
As optimizes for Fast Web View to save documents as linearized PDFs that can be opened and
viewed from web browsers even before the whole file is downloaded.
Redaction
After applying redaction, you can save the redacted file as a new file with the preconfigured
name automatically. To configure the name, select Adjust filename when saving applied
redaction marks, and input text in the Prefix and Suffix boxes to configure the name.
DWG (Business Edition Only)
Choose the type of PDF file to create when converting .dwg and .dxf files.
ECM Integration
NetDocuments
Users who open PDFs on NetDocuments through a browser instead of ndOffice, can return to the
legacy NetDocuments integration by checking the option Use NetDocuments integration through
browser instead of ndOffice.
SharePoint
Choose a method to open a document when you try to open a document on SharePoint. You can
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
23
choose just to open the document, check it out when opening, or ask you when opening a
document.
iManage
By default, a document is checked out when you open it from PhantomPDF. You can change the
setting as needed.
Editing
Show changed text in: Select a color the modified text will appear in when using the Edit Text
command.
Alert when there’s no editable text when using ‘Edit Text’ tool: An alert will pop up notifying the
user when there’s no editable text while using the Edit Text command.
File Associations
This option allows you to set the default PDF Viewer.
- Make Foxit PhantomPDF the default PDF viewer:
Advanced
1. Include browser when setting default PDF viewer: check this option to set Foxit PhantomPDF
as the default PDF viewer in browser.
2. Include preview when setting default PDF viewer: check this option to set Foxit PhantomPDF
as the default PDF viewer in preview.
3. Include thumbnail when setting default PDF viewer: check this option to set Foxit
PhantomPDF as the default PDF viewer in thumbnail view.
4. Use Foxit PhantomPDF to open embedded Acrobat files and embedded Foxit Reader PDF files
in Microsoft Office if Acrobat and Foxit Reader is not installed: check this option to set Foxit
PhantomPDF as the default PDF viewer in Microsoft Office for opening embedded Acrobat files
and Foxit Reader PDF files.
Restore file associations: Restores settings in File Associations.
Always perform check when starting Foxit PhantomPDF: If the default PDF viewer is not Foxit
PhantomPDF, a message box will appear for the options to set it as your default viewer every
time you run Foxit PhantomPDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
24
Forms
The form tab enables you to set the preferences of the interactive form display.
Always hide document message bar: You can decide whether to show or hide the document
message bar that appears below the toolbar area when opening an interactive PDF form.
Highlight all fields: Checking this option allows you to highlight all form fields in the PDF
document. You can click the color palette to change the highlight color for ordinary fields as
well as required fields.
Enable autocomplete: If you enable the autocomplete feature, the entries you type into an
interactive form field will be stored. When filling an interactive PDF form, this feature will
suggest keywords that match your typing in the field.
Open Properties box after creating field: The properties box appears when creating a form
field.
Run form recognition when creating PDF in Foxit PhantomPDF: Foxit PhantomPDF will run
form recognition automatically when a PDF is created and opened in Foxit PhantomPDF.
Email: You can edit the default subject and contents which will be sent with the PDF form.
Full Screen
Full Screen Navigation
A. Select to show Scroll bar, Status bar, Tab bar or Navigation Panels in Full Screen mode.
B. Show Exit button – Check or uncheck this option to show or hide Exit button in Full Screen
mode.
C. One page at a time – Displays a single page at a time in Full Screen mode.
D. Left click to go forward one page; right click to go back one page -- Lets you page through
a PDF document by clicking the mouse. You can also page through a document by pressing
Space, Shift + Space, or the arrow keys.
Full Screen Appearance
Background – Click the color pane and choose the color you like to be the background color
in Full Screen mode.
Full Screen Transitions
Foxit PhantomPDF supports page transition in Full Screen mode. There are 11 transition types:
Split, Blinds, Box, Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter, Fly, Push, Cover, Uncover and Fade. Also, you could
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
25
set the direction for the transition.
A. Ignore all transitions: Check to ignore page transition in Full Screen mode.
B. Default transition –Choose page transition for one document in the drop-down window.
C. Direction - Set the direction for the transition.
D. Navigation control direction: If selected, the direction of page transition will be based on
your navigation direction in the document. For instance, if you turn to the next page, the
page will transition from top to bottom; to the previous page, the page will transition
from bottom to top. For some transitions without directions, the option is not available.
General
The General Preferences setting provides options on Basic Tools, Tab Bar, Status Bar, and
Application Startup, etc.
Basic Tools
A. Use single-key accelerators to access tools: Enable single-key accelerators to select some
commands and perform some actions with single-key shortcuts. Please refer to Single-
Key Accelerators for more details.
B. Use fixed resolution for snapshots - Sets the resolution used to copy the image captured
with the Snapshot command. Automatically uses 72 pixels as default resolution.
C. Create links from URLs - Detects the text links in PDF documents and change the non-
clickable links into clickable ones.
D. Minimize to system tray - You can save space on your task bar by minimizing Foxit
PhantomPDF to the system tray. Check this selection to minimize Foxit PhantomPDF to
the system tray when clicking the Minimize button.
E. Screen word-capturing - Check it to turn on this function that enables you to use your
mouse to capture words inside a PDF file and have it translated if you are using dictionary
software.
F. Make Hand Tool select text - Check it to enable the Hand command to become text
selection tool when moving it to the selectable content.
Tab Bar
A. Max tab size – Allows you to specify a maximum tab size.
B. Double-click to close Tab: Checking this option allows you to close tabs by double-clicking.
Status Bar
A. Auto-hide Status Bar – Hides the status bar when opening a PDF, and enables it to float at
the bottom of the page only when the cursor is moved to the bottom.
B. Show scroll lock button: Displays the scroll lock icons in the status bar.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
26
Notification Messages
Notification messages appear at the top right corner of the document pane when you work
with interactive PDF forms, PDF/A files, or PDF files under shared review or email review, etc.
By default, the notification message is expanded and will be collapsed automatically in a few
seconds. If you don’t want the notification message to be expanded automatically, please
check the following option:
Don’t automatically expand notification messages: Check this option to disable the automatic
expansion of notification messages in Foxit PhantomPDF. Once disabled, the notification
messages will be collapsed and shown as a light bulb, and you can click the light bulb icon
to expand the notification messages if needed.
User Experience Improvement
Turn on or off data collection. The collected data will be used to improve the user experience
only.
Features Required Internet Connection
Specify whether to disable all features that require Internet connection. The setting will take
effect after you restart the application.
Application Startup
A. Show Start Page: Check this option to show the start page when running Foxit
PhantomPDF.
B. Disable ConnectedPDF features: If checked, all of the ConnectedPDF features will be
unavailable and all related commands will disappear in the ribbon.
C. Show floating promotion page: Check this option to show the latest promotion offering
from Foxit if you have not activated Foxit PhantomPDF.
History
History
A. Restore last section when application starts: Determines whether documents start
automatically with the last viewed section.
B. Restore last view settings when reopening: Determines whether documents open
automatically with the last viewed settings.
C. Maximum number of documents in history list: Sets the maximum number of PDF
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
27
documents you read in history list. The default is 50 PDF documents.
D. Maximum number of documents in Recent Documents list: Sets the maximum number of
PDF documents you have viewed recently in the File page. The default setting is 10 PDF
documents.
E. Show this number of unpinned Recent Folders: Set the number of unpinned recent folders
listed in File > Open > Computer or SharePoint/OneDrive for Personal or Business/Google
Drive/Dropbox. The default setting is 10 folders.
Note: Foxit PhantomPDF allows users to set “maximum number of documents in history
list”, “maximum number of documents in Recent Documents list”, and the “number of
unpinned Recent Folders” to 0.
Preferred Output Location
If you have configured a preferred output location, when prompted to specify a location to
save a document, the configured location will be automatically chosen in the Save As dialog
box. To remove the configured output location, click Browse to select a location, and Clear
remembered output location.
Identity
Shows the identity of your application, including Login Name, 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.
Languages
Foxit PhantomPDF provides the commonly used languages to meet customers’ needs to the
upmost. Usually, Foxit PhantomPDF will automatically choose the language applied to your OS as
its default during your installation. But changing languages after installation is supportable.
To change language after installation, please follow the steps below:
Choose File > Preferences > Languages.
Select Choose custom language.
Select the language in either Official Language or Translated by Community.
Click the website in the pop-up window to download the language package and Foxit
PhantomPDF will automatically install the language.
Click OK in the Preferences dialog box, and then choose Restart in the pop-up window to
apply the language.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
28
Default Reading Direction: Choose a default reading direction when you’re reading a document in
Facing or Continuous Facing mode.
Layout Grid
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.
Page Display
The Page Display panel of the Preferences dialog box includes the following options:
Default Layout and Zoom
A. Navigation tab: specifies the panel to be displayed in the opening view.
a) Use Initial View: minimizes the Navigation panel and hides all panels.
b) Page Only: displays Pages panel by default in opening view.
c) Bookmarks Panel and Page: displays Bookmarks panel by default in opening view.
d) Pages Panel and Page: displays Pages panel by default in opening view.
e) Attachments Panel and Page: displays Attachments panel by default in opening view.
f) Layers Panel and Page: displays Layers panel by default in opening view.
B. Default page layout: You can view PDFs in following layouts:
a) Automatic: With this option selected, in multi-page document, displays pages in
Continuous mode, or in Single mode if the page width is larger than the page height.
If you change the page display in the View tab, the document will display in the page
layout the last time you set.
b) Single Page -- Displays one page at a time, with no portion on other pages visible.
c) Continuous -- Displays pages in a continuous vertical column that is one page wide.
d) Facing -- Displays each two-page spread with no portion of other pages visible.
e) Continuous Facing -- Displays facing pages side by side in a continuous vertical
column.
See also “Changing the Page layout”.
C. Zoom: Sets the magnification level for PDF documents when they are first opened. This
value overrides document settings. The default uses the settings of the PDF document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
29
D. Custom facing: The Default Facing for page layout is 2 pages. You can check the Custom
Facing box and set the facing layout to your own preference.
E. Custom margin: Sets the margins between different pages with Facing or Continuous
Facing page layout. The default is a margin of 8 pixels.
Rendering
A. Smooth text: Optimally adjusts text display that best suits your monitor.
Page Content
A. Display transparency grid: Displays a grid behind transparent objects.
B. Use logical page numbers: Open PDFs with the logical page numbers.
Forbid the change of the current Zoom factor during execution of ‘Go to Destination’ actions
(these actions can be launched from bookmarks): Check to forbid user to change the current
Zoom factor during execution of ‘Go to Destination’.
See also “Adjust Page Magnification”.
PDF Sign
Flatten the document when applying all signatures: Flattening the document when applying all
signatures will make all the signatures, forms, and annotations become one whole object of the
PDF page.
Print
Printer
Print text as graphics (ignore font substitution) – Sets the text font as graphics and printout
fonts are exactly the same as the text fonts. Automatically allows quick print where Printer
Font is substituted.
Batch Print
A. Show print settings before printing document: Check it to show the Print dialog box
before printing a document.
B. Require confirmation when printing multiple documents: Check it to show the
confirmation message before starting batch printing.
Reading
Page vs Document
This preference determines how much of a document is delivered to a screen reader at a time.
If a PDF isn’t tagged, Foxit PhantomPDF may analyze the document and attempt to infer its
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
30
structure, which can take a long time for a long document. You may want to set Foxit
PhantomPDF to deliver only the currently visible page so that it analyzes only a small piece of
the document at a time. This consideration will vary depending on the size and complexity of
the document and on the features of the screen reader.
A. Only read the currently visible pages - This option is usually best when using a screen
magnifier. It improves performance by eliminating the need for the software to process
parts of the document that aren’t visible. When Foxit PhantomPDF sends only the
currently visible pages of a PDF to the memory buffer, the assistive technology has access
to those pages only. It cannot go to another page until the next page is visible and Foxit
PhantomPDF has sent the page information to the memory buffer. Therefore, if this
option is selected, you must use the navigation features of Foxit PhantomPDF, not those
of the assistive technology, to navigate from page to page in the document. You should
also set the Default Page Display option in preferences to Single Page if you choose to
have PhantomPDF send only the currently visible pages to the assistive technology.
B. Read the entire document - This option can be best if you use a screen reader that has
its own navigation and search tools and that is more familiar to you than the commands
in Foxit PhantomPDF.
C. For large documents, only read the currently visible pages - This option is selected by
default and is usually best if you use a screen reader with long or complex PDFs. It allows
Foxit PhantomPDF to deliver an entire small document but revert to page-by-page
delivery for large documents.
Minimum number of pages in a large document
When the “For large documents, only read the currently visible pages” option is selected, it
allows you to set this minimum value.
Enable UI Automation support: Check this option to allow assistive technology products, such
as screen readers, to provide information about the UI and document to end users.
Confirm before preparing untagged PDF for reading with assistive technology: Select the
option, and if any assistive technology is detected in your system, a dialog box pops up when
you open an untagged PDF to ask you whether to set the reading order options for the PDF
for reading with assistive technology.
Reading Order
Set reading order as appropriate for your assistive software and devices.
A. Infer reading order from document (recommended): Interpret the reading order of
untagged documents by using an advanced method of structure-inference layout
analysis.
B. Left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order: Deliver the text according to its placement
on the page, reading from left to right and then top to bottom. This method is faster than
“Infer reading order from document”. This method analyzes text only; form fields are
ignored and tables aren’t recognized as such.
C. Use reading order in raw print stream: Deliver text in the order in which it was recorded
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
31
in the print stream. This method is faster than “Infer reading order from document”. This
method analyzes text only; form fields are ignored and tables aren’t recognized as such.
Override the reading order in tagged documents: Use the reading order specified in the
Reading preferences instead of what the tag structure of the document specifies. Use this
preference only when you encounter problems in poorly tagged PDFs.
Reviewing
Automatically check for new comments:
Set the time interval to automatically check for new comments during shared review. By
default, Foxit PhantomPDF will check for new comments every five minutes during shared
review.
Shared Review Options
A. Show welcome dialog when opening file: Check it to show the welcome dialog when opening
a shared review. In the welcome dialog, you can view the general information for the shared
review, including the initiator, deadline, review server and so on.
B. Show server connection warning when opening file: Check it to show the server connection
warning when opening a shared review.
C. Remind before review expiration: If you check this option, a prompt message will pop up
before the shared review expires.
Review Options
A. Show prompt messages for Shared Review: Determines whether to show prompt message for
Shared Review when publishing comments in a shared review that contains several comments
from other reviewers that have not yet been published to the command server. You can take
ownership of these comments and publish them on behalf of the reviewers.
B. Show prompt messages for Email Review: Check this option to show prompt messages during
email review.
Send Messages
A. Use Auto-Complete List to suggest names when typing in the “To” and “Cc” fields: Checking
this option will enable Auto-Complete feature, which recognizes and suggests contacts based
on the previously entered email addresses when you send back your comments during a
shared review by email.
B. Empty auto-complete list: Click this option to remove all the email address entries from the
Auto-Complete memory.
Remove Custom Server Locations
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
32
Select a custom server location (i.e. the shared network folder you specified) and click
Remove Server Profile to remove it from Foxit PhantomPDF.
RMS Settings (Business Edition Only)
Save encrypted file as a copy named ‘filename(protected)’ – saves an encrypted PDF file
automatically as a copy named “filename(protected).pdf” after adding RMS encryption to the
file.
Encrypt metadata – encrypts the metadata when encrypting PDF documents.
Security
Protected View
To protect your computer from files originating from the Internet or other potentially unsafe
locations, turn on Protected View to open these files to reduce risks. In Protected View, files
are read only and most editing actions are not allowed.
Privileged Locations
Some professional documents contain complex elements like interactive form fields,
multimedia content, attachments, and layering. These elements may leave PDFs vulnerable
to malicious actions and threaten data security. Foxit PhantomPDF enables users to specify
privileged locations to selectively trust files, folders and hosts in order to bypass security
restrictions.
Signature
Appearance Styles: Manage the signature appearance templates.
Signing & Verifications
A. Verify signatures when the document is opened: If this option is checked, Foxit
PhantomPDF will verify the signatures when the document is opened, and will display
the signature verification results in the Digital Signatures panel. By default, the option is
checked.
B. Sign the document immediately after the signature is placed: Check this option to sign
the document immediately when you place the signature on the document. By default,
this option is checked. When it is unchecked, you will need to click Sign Document to
apply the signature after placing it on the document. You can still modify the document
before applying the signature.
Windows Integration
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
33
Specify whether to trust all root certificates in the Windows Certificate Store when validating
signatures and certified documents. Checking these options may compromise security. Please
make sure that you trust all the root certificates before enabling these features.
Saving Settings
Save signed file as a copy named ‘filename_signed.pdf’: Check this option to save the signed
file as a copy named ‘filename_signed.pdf’ after applying the digital signature.
Speech
Volume: Sets the reading volume of Read out Loud.
Use default voice: Check it to read content with default language, or you can select the
required one from the combo box.
Use default speech attribute: Check it to read with default pitch and rate, or you can uncheck
it and then set pitch and rate in the combo box as needed.
Read comments: Check it to enable the application to read out the comments when executing
Read out Loud.
Read form fields: Check it to enable the application to read out the form fields when executing
Read out Loud. Please refer to Read PDF Form Fields Out Loud for details.
Spelling
Enable check spelling: Check Enable check spelling to avoid spelling error.
Dictionaries for Spell Check: Add, remove, or reorder the dictionaries for spell check.
Tablet
Enable pressure sensitive: Enable pressure sensitive so that you can add free-form
annotations with PSI in PDFs by supported touchscreen devices.
Time Stamp Servers
Configure the default Time Stamp Server to embed a trusted time stamp while signing.
Trust Manager
You can enable or disable JavaScript Actions, Safe Reading Mode, Internet access, as well as other
relevant settings as needed. Foxit PhantomPDF will show a warning message when applications
without valid digital signatures open Foxit PhantomPDF. You can add safe applications to the
trusted application list to not show the warnings.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
34
Updater
Automatically install updates: The system will automatically download and replace the
original files in the installation folder when there is a new version.
Automatically download updates, but let me choose when to install them (recommended):
The system will automatically download and display a message informing you of the upgrade
and allow you to choose to upgrade to the new version. This option is checked by default.
Do not download or install updates automatically: Never download or install updates
automatically.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
35
Chapter 3 – Read
After getting acquainted with the workspace and the basic tools, you can start the journey of PDF
reading. You can open a PDF, reach a specific page easily, adjust the view of a document, read pure
texts by the text viewer tool, view documents while listening to them, and more. Foxit PhantomPDF
also provides a new feature to view PDF portfolios.
Open PDFs
Open PDFs in Foxit PhantomPDF
You can open PDFs within Foxit Phantom in many different ways. The easiest method is to drag and
drop a PDF file into the Foxit PhantomPDF window. You can also use Foxit PhantomPDF’s Open
command to open a recent document, local document, or PDFs in your SharePoint, OneDrive for
Personal or Business, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box cloud services.
To open PDFs with the Open command, do one of the following:
Click the Open button on the Quick Access toolbar. In the Open dialog box, select the
file name, and click Open. PDF documents are usually identified with a .pdf extension.
(Optional) You are also allowed to preview non-PDF files on the above-mentioned cloud
services in PhantomPDF. The non-PDF files will be converted to PDF temporarily when you try
to open them.
Click File > Open. To open a recent document or a document stored in the local drive, click
Recent Documents/Computer. To open PDFs in SharePoint, OneDrive for Personal or Business,
Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box, select Add a place, sign into your account, and then you can
open your PDF file. The connected Cloud account will be listed in the Open history and the
PDF file will be in the Recent Documents list, which will help you open files quickly in the
future. To remove an account, just click the Delete icon that appears when you place your
cursor over the account name.
Tip:
1. If you need to pin a frequently-opened document to the top of the Recent Documents list,
click the Pin icon that appears when you hover the cursor over the document name.
Likewise, click the Unpin icon to unpin the document from the top of the Recent
Documents list. You can pin and unpin frequently-opened folders under the local drives,
OneDrive for Personal or Business, Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, or Box, to the
Recent Folders list.
2. To customize the number of documents or folders in the recently used list, please navigate
to File > Preferences > History.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
36
Open PDFs from Desktop or within Other Applications
If you set Foxit PhantomPDF as your default viewer for PDF files, you are able to launch and open
PDF files in the following applications:
Email Application: in your email applications, you can double-click the attachment icon to
open the document.
Web Application: you can open a PDF document by clicking on the PDF file link in your web
browser. Also, you can view the PDF content embedded in the HTML.
File System: double-click the PDF file icon in your file system.
Open a secured PDF document
If you receive a PDF that is protected by security features, you may need a password to open the
document. Some protected documents have other restrictions that prevent you from printing,
editing, copying, etc.
When opening a protected PDF, you will be prompted to enter the password.
When trying to copy or edit a secured PDF, you will be notified that you are prohibited to do
it without the owner’s permission.
If you open a PDF that is encrypted by AD RMS feature of PhantomPDF, please refer to AD
RMS Protection.
Save PDFs
After modifying your PDF, you can save the changes to the original PDF or save as a new copy of a
PDF. You can also save PDFs as HTML, RTF, TXT and Microsoft Office files. Foxit PhantomPDF enables
you to save your PDFs in SharePoint, OneDrive for Personal or Business, Google Drive, Dropbox,
and Box, as well as to local drives. When saving or saving as PDFs, Foxit PhantomPDF will optimize
PDFs by removing redundant data including deleted pages, objects, and annotations.
Tip: By default, Foxit PhantomPDF saves the changes to a file every 5 minutes automatically in case
of system crash or power failure. If the application closes abnormally before you can save changes
to a file, PhantomPDF opens the recovery file automatically the next time you open it. The recovery
file contains your changes up until the last time PhantomPDF saved the document. You can change
the time interval settings in Preferences > Documents > Save Setting > Automatically save file
every x minutes.
Save a copy of a PDF
1. Select File > Save As.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
37
2. In the Save As dialog box, enter the filename and location, and click Save.
Save a PDF as a HTML, RTF, TXT, or Microsoft Office File
1. Select File > Save As.
2. Specify the filename and location in the Save As dialog box.
3. Choose a format from the Save as type list and click Save.
Save PDFs in SharePoint, OneDrive for Personal or Business, Google
Drive, Dropbox, or Box
Click File > Save As > Add a place > SharePoint/OneDrive for Personal or Business/Google
Drive/Dropbox/Box, then sign in your account and choose a folder to save to. The account will be
listed in the Save-as history for your convenience. Click the Delete icon near the account name
to remove the account from the list.
Tip:
1. You can also pin the frequently-used folder under local drives, OneDrive for Personal or
Business, Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, or Box to the Recent Folders list or unpin it,
which allows you to save your documents with just one click.
2. To customize the number of documents or folders in the recently used list, please navigate
to File > Preferences > History.
Close a PDF
Close the current PDF file by doing any of the following:
Click the file’s Close button in the tab bar.
Double-click the tab. (Tip: You can also disable this option in File > Preferences > General.)
Click File > Close.
Click the Close button on the Foxit PhantomPDF application window if you are in single
document interface mode.
To close all PDF files in multi-tab browsing, click the Close button on the Foxit PhantomPDF
application window.
Tip: Right-click a file tab in the tab bar, and choose Open Containing Folder to open the directory
of the file, or choose Copy Path to Clipboard to copy the file path to the clipboard.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
38
Export PDFs
Export PDF to Office, RTF, Excel, PPT or HTML files
1. Click File/Convert > Export. (Tip: You can also export it through File > Save As.)
2. Select the format you want to convert the PDF to, and specify the file name and location.
3. (Optional) You can select options from “Settings” in the Save As dialog box before saving the
file.
4. Click Save.
Note: To convert a PDF to Word, you can directly right-click the file and choose Convert to Microsoft
Office with Foxit PhantomPDF.
Export PDF to accessible text
If the document is an accessible PDF, you can save it as accessible text which can contain assistive
information (such as alternate text descriptions) for images or multimedia objects in the PDF.
Accessible text is often used for a braille printer by which accessible text can be imported and
printed out as a form that vision-impaired people can use.
To export PDF to accessible text,
1. Click File/Convert > Export > To Other > To Accessible Text. (Tip: You can also export it through
File > Save As.)
2. Specify the file name and location.
3. Click Save.
Export a PDF as an image
1. Click File/Convert > Export > To Image > Select a file type of images. (Tip: You can also export
it through File > Save As.)
2. Specify the page range (all pages, current page, a range of pages), and click OK.
3. You can set the quality, color space, and resolution from “Settings” in the Save As dialog box
before you save the file. Click OK to continue.
4. Specify the location, and click Save.
Export all images in the PDFs
With one click of “Export All Images”, Foxit PhantomPDF enables you to export all images in your
document to separate image files. Please click Convert > Export > Export All Images, choose an
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
39
image format, and configure the settings before exporting via the Export to Images dialog box.
See also the tutorial on Export PDF to Word & Other Formats.
Export Selected Area to Other Formats
You can also select an area in PDF and export the content in the area to formats including Microsoft
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
1. Click Convert > Export > Export Selected Area.
2. Click and drag an area in your PDF you want export. Then right-click the selected area and
choose Export Selection As….
3. In the pop-up Save As dialog box, choose the file format you want to export to, and specify the
filename and location.
4. (Optional) To export the comments in the selected area, check Include Comments. The option
is not available when you export the area to an Excel file.
5. Click Save.
Integrate with IFilter
Foxit PhantomPDF is now integrated and packaged together with Foxit PDF IFilter– Desktop, which
allows users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these
documents on the desktop system. You can trigger Foxit PDF IFilter in the installation directory of
Foxit PhantomPDF. For more information, please refer to the user manual for Foxit PDF IFilter .
Note:
1. If you are in Safe Reading Mode, a dialog box will pop up when you are trying to open an
attached file. Check Disable Safe Reading Mode and Open file, and then double click the File
Attachment icon to open the attached user manual for Foxit PDF IFilter.
2. If Foxit PDF IFilter didn’t appear in PhantomPDF installation setup, you need to go to Help >
Check for Update to download and install Foxit PDF IFilter; or after downloading the Foxit PDF
IFilter plugin from the Foxit website, click Help > Install Update to install it.
Industry Standard Validation and Creation
With the Industry Standard command in Foxit PhantomPDF, you can specify the PDF’s standards
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
40
for specific industries and functions. Foxit PhantomPDF has PDF/A, PDF/E and PDF/X compliance
validation and creation to meet industry standards. Select Convert > Compliance > Industry
Standard , then select one of the industry standards, and then click Analyze or Analyze and Fix
in the pop-up dialog box. You can also create standard compliant PDFs by saving them as PDF/X,
PDF/A or PDF/E. (Business Edition Only)
View PDFs
Foxit PhantomPDF enables you to retrieve recently opened documents, as well as read PDF
documents in different view settings: multi-tab reading and single document reading.
Multi-tab Reading & Single Document Reading
Multi-tab Reading
The multi-tab browsing feature enables you to open multiple files in a single instance. Newly
opened PDFs will be displayed in tabs.
To enable tabbed browsing, go to File > Preferences > Documents > Open Setting > uncheck Allow
Multiple Instances.
Single Document Reading
Create a new window when you double-click to open a new PDF file.
To enable single document interface mode, go to File > Preferences > Documents > Open
Setting > check Allow Multiple Instances.
Page through a document
Open a PDF document with Foxit PhantomPDF, and you can then start viewing PDFs by scrolling
throughout the entire document with your mouse vertically, or by holding Shift to scroll
horizontally. You can also page through a document by the following methods.
Scroll through Documents
Do either of the following:
Using mouse actions or keystrokes
To navigate around the documents vertically, scroll the mouse wheel or press the Down
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
41
or Up Arrows on the keyboard.
To navigate around the document horizontally, press Shift and scroll the mouse wheel.
While scrolling in a document, you can lock the scroll direction to prevent the document from
being scrolled out of place, especially when the document is zoomed in and scrolled within
tablets. The steps are as follows:
Choose File > Preferences > General, and check the Show scroll lock button option under
the Status Bar to enable scroll lock. Once enabled, the scroll lock icons will be displayed
in the Status Bar.
Click on the Status Bar to lock the scroll horizontally.
Click on the Status Bar to lock the scroll vertically.
Click both and on the Status Bar to freeze the screen so that you can read the
current view of the document.
Scroll automatically
Automatic scrolling allows users to view documents without using mouse actions or
keystrokes. Foxit PhantomPDF also enables you to change the scrolling speed with ease.
A. Choose View > Assistant > AutoScroll .
B. Do one of the following:
To increase or decrease the scrolling speed, press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key,
depending on the direction of scrolling. To change the scrolling speed to a specific
speed, press a number key (9 for the fastest, 0 for the slowest).
To reverse the direction of scrolling, press the minus sign (-) key.
To jump to the next or previous page, press the Right Arrow key or Left Arrow key
respectively.
To stop automatic scrolling, click AutoScroll again.
To pause automatic scrolling, press the Space key.
Tip 1: To perform auto-scrolling, you can also click the Hand Command , hold the middle
mouse button/wheel mouse button down, and then move the mouse to scroll the pages. You
can press the middle mouse button/wheel mouse button again to exit AutoScroll mode.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
42
Tip 2: To go back to Hand Command mode, just press and hold the space key.
Go to Specified Page
Click the First Page, Last Page, Previous Page and Next Page buttons in the Go To group under the
View tab, which is also located in the status bar. You can also input the page number to go to that
specific page. Previous View lets you return to the previous viewed instance and Next View goes
to the next viewed instance.
Read with Bookmark
To jump to a topic using bookmarks, click the Bookmark button on the left Navigation pane.
And then click the bookmark or right-click the bookmark and choose “Go to Bookmark”. Click the
plus (+) or minus (-) signs to expand or collapse the bookmark contents.
Read with Page Thumbnail
To jump to a page with page thumbnails, click the Page Thumbnails button on the left
Navigation pane and click its thumbnail. To move to another location on the current page, drag and
move the red box in the thumbnail. To resize a page thumbnail, right-click on the thumbnail and
choose “Enlarge Page Thumbnails” or “Reduce Page Thumbnails”.
View PDF Portfolios
PDF portfolios are a combination of files with different formats such as Word Office files, text
documents and Excel files. Foxit PhantomPDF provides viewing and printing PDF portfolios, as well
as searching keywords in PDFs in the portfolio.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
43
A Sample PDF Portfolio
Open a PDF portfolio in Foxit PhantomPDF by right-clicking it and choosing “Open with
Foxit PhantomPDF”.
You can view the coversheet, details and layout of the portfolio. To open and read the
files in the portfolio, please do any of the following:
- Double-click a file.
- Select a file and click button in the upper right corner of the document area.
- Right-click a file and choose Open File in Native Application.
Click Portfolio > View > Preview Pane > Right/Bottom, and the document area will be
divided into two parts: the original area that displays the portfolio content, and a
preview pane which allows you to preview the corresponding content when you click
and choose a file.
Right-click a document in the portfolio and choose Show Information or click the
button in the upper right corner of the document area to view the properties of the
document.
Search in portfolio by typing keywords in Search box or using shortcut keys CTRL+ Shift
+ F.
Search & Index in PDFs
Find Text
To quickly find text you are looking for, follow the steps below:
Select the Find Field on the menu bar. Click to set the search criteria.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
44
A. Whole words only -- limits the search to match only whole words. For example, if you
search for the word Read, the word Reader will not be found.
B. Case-Sensitive -- makes the search case-sensitive. For example, if you search for the word
text, the words Text and TEXT will not be found.
C. Include Bookmarks -- enables you to search for a word in the whole text, including
bookmarks.
D. Include Comments -- enables you to search for a word in the whole text, including
comments.
E. Include Form Data – enables you to search for a word in the whole text, including form
data.
F. Properties – enables you to specify the color and opacity of the highlighting of the search
results.
Type the text in the field and press the Enter button. Foxit PhantomPDF jumps to the first
instance of the search term, which appears highlighted.
Click and or press shortcut keys Shift+F3 and F3 to find previous or next result, or
press Enter to find the next result.
Foxit PhantomPDF supports the advanced search function, which enables you to do the
following: search a string in a single PDF file, multiple PDF files under a specified folder, or PDFs in
a PDF portfolio. When the search finishes, all occurrences will be listed in a tree view. This will
allow you to quickly preview the context and jump to specific locations.
To do the advanced searching, do as below:
- Click the search button , and select a document or folder you want to search in the
Search Panel. Then in the Searching box, type the text you want to search for and click the
button to set the search criteria. See also Search Criteria.
- (Optional) Check the item Patterns to search for a pattern. You can include form data and
comments in the search. Choose Country based on the file you are using.
- Click Search button. Foxit PhantomPDF jumps to the first instance of the search term, which
appears highlighted. And all occurrences will be listed in a tree view, allowing you to preview
the contexts and jump to specific locations quickly.
- Press New Search in the search panel to start a new search or press the close button in the
top of the search panel to finish the search.
Note: To find or edit text in a scanned or image-based PDF, you need to convert the content into
searchable or editable text using the OCR feature. See also OCR PDFs.
Move and Resize Search Box
The advanced search box can float or be docked. You can also resize the box with ease.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
45
To float the docked search box, please double-click the title bar.
To move the floating search box, drag it by its title bar to another location in the work area.
To resize the search box, drag any corner point to adjust.
To dock the floating search box, double-click on the title bar.
Adjust Page View
Foxit PhantomPDF provides multiple commands that help you adjust the view of your PDF
documents, such as the page magnification and the display of pages.
Adjust Page Magnification
Do one of the following procedures:
1. Click the Zoom In command or Zoom Out command in Home > View.
2. Right-click the document pane and select Zoom In or Zoom Out.
3. Select or input a magnification percentage in the Zoom To Area on the same
tab.
4. Adjust a magnification percentage in the Magnification Percentage Area
on the status bar.
5. Using the Marquee command
Choose the Marquee command in View > Assistant.
The cursor changes into , drag a rectangle on the page or just click on the page to increase
the magnification by one preset level, centering on the point where you clicked.
Choose the Marquee command, the cursor changes to as Ctrl-click on the page. Drag a
rectangle on the page or just click on the page to decrease the magnification
6. Using the Loupe command
Choose the Loupe command in View > Assistant.
Move the Loupe command to the places you want to view, you will see the amplificatory or
decreased objects in the Loupe Tool dialog box.
(Optional) Select the Lock option in the Loupe Tool dialog box. Click the area of the
document you want to view in closer detail. A red rectangle appears in the document,
corresponding to the area shown in the Loupe Tool window. You can drag or resize the
rectangle to change the Loupe command view.
To change the scale ratio of the Loupe Tool, you can either enter a value in the zoom text
box, or drag the slider in the Loupe Tool dialog box.
7. Using the Magnifier command
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
46
You can easily magnify areas of the PDF files as you work on Foxit PhantomPDF with this free
command. It is especially useful for visually impaired people with some functional vision.
Magnifier Fisheye Magnifier
Choose the Magnifier in View > Assistant > Magnifier.
Move the Magnifier to the places you want to view.
To switch between Magnifier and Fisheye Magnifier, press the left mouse button.
To change the size of magnifier window, press the right mouse button.
To turn off the Magnifier, choose any other commands.
Resizing a Page to Fit the Window
There are four types for you to choose:
To resize the page to fit entirely in the document pane, click the Fit Page button
in Home > View, or right-click the Document Pane and choose Fit Page.
To resize the page to fit the width of the window, click the Fit Width button in
Home > View, or right-click the Document Pane and choose Fit Width. Part of the page may
be out of view.
To resize the page to its actual size, click the Actual Size in Home > View, or right-click
the Document Pane and choose Actual Size.
To resize the page to fit the visible width of the window, removing the margins, click the Fit
Visible button in Home > View.
Adjust the Page Display
To change the Page Orientation, do one of the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
47
Click the Rotate View button in View > Page Display.
Click the Rotate Left button or the Rotate Right button in Home > View.
Right-click the document pane and choose the Rotate Right command.
Note: You can change the page view in 90-degree increments, but the change only affects screen
display instead of its actual orientation. You cannot save the changes in page view.
To change the page layout, Foxit PhantomPDF provides the following page layouts:
Single Page - Displays one page in the document pane at a time.
Continuous - Arranges the pages in the document pane in a continuous vertical column.
Facing - Arranges the pages side by side, displaying only two pages at a time.
Continuous Facing - Arranges the pages side by side in a continuous vertical column.
Show Cover Page During Facing -If a document has more than two pages, the first page
can be displayed alone on the right side of the document pane in Facing and Continuous
Facing views.
Split - View a PDF with the document pane divided into two panes (Vertically/
Horizontally Split command) or four panes (Spreadsheet Split command).
Note: To revert back to single-pane view, choose View > deselect Vertically/ Horizontally/
Spreadsheet Split.
With the Vertically/Horizontally Split view, you can scroll, change the magnification level, or turn
to different pages in the active pane, as it will not change the other panes (above or below it).
The Spreadsheet Split view is useful if you want to keep column headings and row labels visible
while scrolling through a large spreadsheet or table. In this mode, changing the magnification in
one pane changes the magnification in all panes. Also, scrolling is coordinated between the panes.
Scrolling a pane horizontally scrolls the pane above or below it; scrolling vertically also scrolls the
pane to the left or right of that pane.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
48
View Mode
Read Mode
User interface settings, such as the navigation pane, toolbar, and status bar, will be hidden when
a PDF is displayed in Read Mode. The document pane is enlarged, reducing wasted reading space
while leaving the menu bar available for necessary operations.
To view a document in Read Mode, please choose one of the following:
Click the Read Mode button in View > Document Views.
Press the shortcut key “Ctrl + H” on the keyboard.
Right-click the document pane and select Read Mode.
In Read Mode, a basic toolbar will float when the cursor is put at the bottom of the screen or when
you scroll through the document by dragging the slider. This offers basic commands, such as save,
print, zoom in/out, etc.
If you open multiple PDFs, please press “Ctrl + Tab” on the keyboard to switch through them in
Read Mode.
To exit the Read Mode, please do any of the following:
- Click the Read Mode button in View > Document Views.
- Press the shortcut key “Ctrl + H” on the keyboard.
- Click the Read Mode button on the floating basic toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
Full Screen Mode
In Full Screen mode, Foxit PhantomPDF Document Pane fills the entire screen, with Menu Bar,
Toolbar, Status bar, and Bookmarks pane hidden behind. The mouse pointer remains active in Full
Screen mode so that you can click links.
1. To set Full Screen preferences, please go to File > Preferences > Full Screen.
2. To enter Full Screen mode, please do one of the following:
Right-click the Document Pane and select Full Screen.
Press the shortcut key F11.
3. To adjust the view in Full Screen mode, right-click the document and work with the Context
Menu.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
49
Note: This feature will not be available unless you clear Left click to go forward one page; right
click to go back one page checkbox in the Preference > Full Screen.
4. To exit Full Screen mode:
Press Esc key.
Press the shortcut key F11.
5. Page Transition in Full Screen
Foxit PhantomPDF supports page transition to turn pages in Full Screen mode. It helps you to turn
pages as the transition feature in Microsoft Power Point. There are 10 transition types: Split, Blinds,
Box, Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter, Push, Cover, Uncover and Fade. Also, you could set the direction, speed
and page range for the transition.
To edit page transition, click the Page Transitions in View > Page Display.
Note:
This change only works for the current PDF.
The pages will be turned in the same way the next time you open and view the document in
full screen mode.
If you want to set page transition to all PDF documents opened by Foxit PhantomPDF, please
choose File > Preferences > Full Screen.
Reverse View
To read documents in a backward order, please do one of the following:
Choose View > Document Views >Reverse View .
Right-click on the document pane and choose Reverse View.
Text Viewer
With Foxit Text Viewer, you can work on all PDF documents in pure text view mode. It allows you
to easily reuse the texts scattered among images and tables, and acts like Notepad. Also, you can
adjust some settings to meet your needs.
To Enter Text View mode, do one of the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
50
Choose View > Document Views > Text Viewer .
Press the shortcut key Ctrl + 6.
Customizing Text Viewer
As soon as Text Viewer is activated, you can use the Font Setting commands to customize your
own work area. Right-click the text area to select Font Setting.
1. To change text font when reading with Text Viewer
Right-click and choose Font Setting > Font….
Choose Font name, Font Style, Font Size, Effects, Color and Script from respective fields in Font
dialog box. The suggested font for best screen display is Courier New.
2. Toggle between regular style and Bold style, choose Font Setting > Bold.
3. Toggle between regular style and Italic style, choose Font Setting > Italic.
4. Change the text color and the background color
Right-click and choose Font Setting > Color….
Text Viewer Colors dialog box pops up.
Drag respective sliders or type the value to change the Foreground (Font) Color and
Background (page) Color. You can preview the changes in the box with a word “Sample”.
Click OK to complete the procedure, or click Cancel to abandon the changes.
5. Change Text Viewer settings
Right click the text area > select Setting…
The text Viewer Settings dialog box pops up.
Below are the text viewer settings:
A. Set page width at three different levels: Current page width, Current document width
and System default width.
B. Minimal width – the valid value for this field is 0-1024. It is set to 78 by default.
C. Keep Column – for PDF tables or text columns, you can check Keep Column to retain
appropriate column in text viewer mode. It is checked by default.
D. Auto Width – for PDF tables or text columns, you can check Auto Width to keep proper
width between texts automatically. It is checked by default.
E. Auto Rotate – you can check Auto Rotate to ensure consistent orientation with that of
the printer. It is checked by default.
Navigating in text viewer mode
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
51
1. To go to next or previous page, do one of the following:
Choose View > Go To > Previous Page or Next Page .
Click the Previous Page icon or Next Page icon on the Status Bar.
Put the cursor in the Document pane, press the Left or Right Arrow on keyboard to move
the pages up or down.
2. To go to the first or last page, do one of the following:
Choose View > Go To > First Page or Last Page .
Click the First Page icon or Last Page icon on the Status Bar.
Press the Home or End keys.
3. To go to a specific page, do one of the following:
Choose View > Go To > input the specific page number > press Enter.
Input or select the specific page number on the Current Page Number Box
on Status Bar, and press Enter.
Changing the magnification level of a document
Do one of the following procedures:
1. Click the Zoom Out button or the Zoom In button on the status bar.
2. Choose Home > View > Zoom In or Zoom Out .
Note: The Zoom To box is unavailable in Text Viewer mode.
Finding text in Text Viewer mode
To find text you are looking for, please refer to Find Text.
Copying and pasting text in Text Viewer mode
1. Select text
Select a word: Double-click the word you want to select.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
52
Select a line of text: Click and drag the cursor on the line of text you want to select.
Select all the text: Press Ctrl + A or right-click the Document Pane > choose Select All.
2. Copying text, do one of the following:
Right-click the selected text > choose Copy.
Select the text and then press shortcut key Ctrl + C.
3. Pasting text
To paste the selected text on Clipboard to another application, please follow the paste command
of the specific application.
Read Out Loud
What’s Read Out Loud?
Read Out Loud is a Text-to-Speech (TTS) tool. It reads the text in a PDF aloud, including the text in
comments and alternate text descriptions for images and fillable fields. Text is read based on the
order of the page content. With this feature, you can obtain information without viewing the pages,
helping to effectively relief eyestrain. It also enables you to view other materials while listening to
the content.
Read Out Loud uses the available voices installed on your system. If you have SAPI 5 voices installed
from text-to-speech or language applications, you can choose them to read your PDFs.
Note: Read Out Loud isn’t a screen reader, it may not be available in some operating systems.
Set Reading and Speech Preferences
Please go to File > Preferences > Reading or Speech. For more information, please refer to Reading
preferences and Speech preferences.
Activate or deactivate Read Out Loud
You need to activate Read Out Loud before using it.
To activate Read Out Loud: select View > Assistant > Read > Activate Read.
To deactivate Read Out Loud: select View > Assistant > Read > Deactivate Read.
Tip: You can press the shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + Y to activate or deactivate Read Out Loud, based
on the current status of the feature. After activating Read Out Loud, you can read a PDF file and
PDF form field out Loud.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
53
Read a PDF Out Loud
Navigate to the page that you want to read out.
Choose View > Assistant > Read > Read Current Page or Read from Current Page.
Tip: If you need to read the text in the comments while reading a PDF out loud, please make sure
you have checked Read comments option in the Speech preferences.
Read PDF Form Fields Out Loud
Go to File > Preferences > Speech, and check Read form fields option.
In the PDF form, press Tab to select the first form field that you want to read out loud, and
then press Tab to move to the next form field. Foxit PhantomPDF will read out the form field
as well as the state of selected check boxes and radio buttons.
Control Reading
While reading a PDF file or form field, you can interrupt the reading and adjust reading volume and
speed as needed.
To adjust the reading speed: choose View > Assistant > Rate > drag the slider.
To adjust the reading volume: choose View > Assistant > Volume > drag the slider.
To pause reading: choose View > Assistant > Pause .
To stop reading: choose View > Assistant > Read > Stop.
Rulers, Guides, Grids & Line Weights
Using Rulers & Guides
Foxit PhantomPDF provides horizontal and vertical ruler guides to help you align and position text,
graphics or other objects on the page. They can also be used to check the size and margins of your
documents.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
54
Rulers & Guides
A. Rulers B. Guides
To show or hide rulers/guides, select View > check or uncheck Rulers/Guides.
To create ruler guides, follow the steps below:
Drag down the horizontal ruler to create a horizontal guide, or drag to the right of the vertical
ruler to create a vertical guide.
Double-click a location on the horizontal ruler to create a vertical guide, or double-click a
location on the vertical ruler to create a horizontal guide.
To move ruler guides, select the Hand command, click and hold the guide, and then drag it to a
new location.
To change the unit of measurement, right-click the horizontal ruler or the vertical ruler, and select
a measurement system for the rulers.
To delete ruler guides, please do one of the following:
To delete a guide, click the guide to select it, and then press the Delete key.
To delete all guides on a certain page, scroll to the page, right-click the ruler area and choose
Clear Guides on Page.
To delete all guides, right-click in the ruler area and choose Clear All Guides.
Grids
You can use grids to line up form fields in a PDF document. When you create or move a form field,
Snap to Grid can align the form field with the nearest grid line.
To show or hide the grid, navigate to View > Page Display > and check/uncheck Grid.
To turn on or off the Snap to Grid option, navigate to View > Page Display > and check/uncheck
Snap to Grid.
You can also customize the grid appearance from File > Preferences > Layout Grid.
Line Weights View
In Line Weights View, the lines will be displayed with the weights defined in the PDF file. When Line
Weights View is turned off, the lines will be displayed with the constant stroke width (1 pixel),
regardless of zoom. The following screenshots show the comparison of the PDF file displayed in
Line Weights View and Non-Line Weights View.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
55
PDF in Line Weights View PDF in Non-Line Weights View
To enter Line Weights View, please choose View > Page Display, and then check Line Weights
option.
To exit Line Weights View, please choose View > Page Display, and then uncheck Line Weights
option.
Compare PDF Files
The Document Compare feature lets you see the difference in two versions of a PDF, as well as
select the type of differences you’re looking for to verify that the appropriate changes have been
made. The Document Compare feature does not compare comments in the PDF.
Comparing a revised PDF to an earlier version
Choose View tab > Compare group > Compare .
Specify the two documents to be compared. Click Choose… to select the file and choose the
specific pages you want to compare by dragging the slider or clicking the list box to select the
page number.
Type of Comparison:
Page by page visual differences – Compares by visual differences, including texts, images,
annotations, etc.
Textual differences – Compares texts only between the two documents, not including
comments. Check Include font information (style, size, typeface) if needed. You can also set
to highlight differences when documents differ by less than a percentage to easier find out
the differences.
Include page reassembled changes – If you check this option, the application will
automatically ignore the textual differences if some of the pages were replaced, deleted, or
inserted, and will indicate that the pages were replaced in the comparison result.
You can preview pages after you check Show preview option. Choose the specific page you
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
56
want to preview by dragging on the page range bar or select the page number by clicking the
list box near the range bar.
Click OK. And then a PDF document named “The result of Comparison.pdf*” will be
automatically created and opened with PhantomPDF. The first page shows a summary of the
comparison results and the differences will be classified with different colors.
View 3D Content in PDFs
Foxit PhantomPDF lets you view, navigate, and comment on 3D content in PDF documents. The 3D
Content Navigation panel, allows you to show/hide parts of a 3D model and add 3D comments to
the 3D model, including text, linear, angular, and radial. You can also rotate/pan/zoom a 3D model
in different views.
Show/hide parts of a 3D model
From the 3D Content Navigation panel, you can view the 3D scene structure and the preset views.
Check/uncheck the appropriate checkbox to show/hide the corresponding part of the 3D content.
Click on the Default view button to go to the initial view. Select the desired view name in the list
to switch between preset named views.
Add a 3D comment/measurement to a 3D model
You can add a 3D comment/measurement to any part of a 3D model with the options on the 3D
Content Navigation panel.
1. Select Add Comment on the 3D Content Navigation panel, and then put the cursor over the
desired position and click to add a note comment. Then you’ll be prompted to enter a
comment string in the pop-up dialog box.
2. (Optional) select Add Add Linear/Add Angular/Add Radial on the 3D Content Navigation
panel, and then put the cursor over the desired position and click to add a measurement.
3. In the Default View, a new view will be created after you add a 3D comment/measurement,
either called 3DCommentView1 or MeasurementView1, respectively. If added to other
preset views, the 3D comments/measurements will be listed under that view.
Rotate, pan, and zoom a 3D model
You can directly use the mouse to rotate, pan, and zoom in/out a 3D model.
Rotate – click the model, hold the left mouse button, and move the mouse.
Pan – click the model, hold the left mouse button, and CTRL button, and move the mouse.
Zoom – click the model, hold the right mouse button, and move the mouse. Or click the model,
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
57
hold the left mouse button and SHIFT button, and move the mouse.
Select & Copy
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can copy texts and images to other applications.
Select and Copy Text
The Select Text command lets you select horizontal and vertical text or columns of text in a PDF.
PhantomPDF sets each ribbon with the Hand command and Select commands for user’s
convenience. To copy text, click the Select Text command and do the following:
Select text
Select a line of text: Drag the cursor toward a line of text you want to select.
Select a column of text: Put the cursor between the lines, drag the cursor toward a column
of text you want to select.
Select a word: Double-click the word you want to select.
Select multiple paragraphs through pages: Click at the start of the selection, scroll to the end
of the selection without releasing your mouse.
Select all the text: Press Ctrl + A, or select some text, right-click it and then choose Select All.
Deselect all the text: Click any area of the text.
Copy text
After selecting the text, do one of the following:
Right-click the selected text > choose Copy.
Press shortcut key Ctrl + C.
Tip: The style (including font, bold, color, etc.) of the text will be copied to the clipboard as well
when you copy text in PDF.
Paste text
To paste the selected text on Clipboard to PDF file in Foxit PhantomPDF, please select the Hand
command in Foxit PhantomPDF, use the shortcut key Ctrl + V, or right-click on the document
where you want to paste the text and select Paste.
To paste the selected text on Clipboard to another application, please follow the paste command
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
58
of the specific application.
Copy Content Using Snapshot Command
You can use the snapshot command to copy individual images or selected content
(text, images, or both) to the clipboard or other applications. Text and images will be copied as an
image.
To copy an image or a combination of text and images, do the following:
Select the Snapshot command by choosing Home > Snapshot.
The cursor changes into a Cross automatically.
Click and drag the mouse to draw a rectangle around the content you want to copy.
You will be prompted that the selected area has been copied to the clipboard. To deselect it,
click anywhere on the page.
(Optional) Right-click the selected area, and then choose Copy Select Graphic.
Paste the selected image to desired destinations.
Note:
1. The selected area will be highlighted in blue.
2. With the snapshot command, click anywhere or right-click anywhere in the page and choose
“Select All” to copy the entire page.
3. You can also copy the selected area and paste it to a PDF document as a stamp annotation.
4. To paste images or a combination of text and image on clipboard from another application to
PDF file in Foxit PhantomPDF, please select the Hand command in Foxit PhantomPDF,
use the shortcut key Ctrl + V, or right-click on the document where you want to paste the object
and select Paste.
Word Count
Similar to Microsoft Word, Foxit PhantomPDF counts words, characters, pages, lines and other
information in all or part of your document. With no text selected, click View > Review > Word
Count, and you will see a pop-up Word Count box for the statistics of the entire document. For a
partial word count, just select the text you want to count, and then click View > Review > Word
Count; or right click the selected text and choose Word Count from the context menu.
Asian Languages
If you try opening PDF files directly that contain Eastern Asian Languages such as Traditional and
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
59
simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, you can open them with Foxit PhantomPDF directly now.
The add-on of Eastern Asian Language has been integrated into the Foxit PhantomPDF package, so
you won’t be prompted to download and install the required language font kits. Foxit PhantomPDF
lets you view, search, and print PDF documents with Asian language text.
Note: To update the Eastern Asian Language font kits, users still have to go to Help > Check for
Update to download and Help > Install Update to install the updated version.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
60
Chapter 4 – Create
Up to 3 times faster than other PDF tools, Foxit PhantomPDF makes creating PDF and PDF/A
documents simple and streamlined. With a click you can quickly convert virtually any kind of file to
PDF without having to open the source application.
Create a PDF in Different Ways
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can easily create PDFs from files in other formats.
See also the tutorial on how to Create Industry-Standard PDFs.
One-click PDF Creation from Any File
Foxit PhantomPDF can create any kind of printable files to PDF simply by dragging the file into the
program window; alternatively, you can use Foxit PhantomPDF to quickly convert files to PDF
directly from within Windows® Explorer.
To create a PDF with one click:
- Drag the document you want to convert on to the Foxit PhantomPDF desktop icon .
- If the Foxit PhantomPDF is open, drag the file directly into the application window.
- Right-click the document icon you want to convert, and choose Convert to PDF in Foxit
PhantomPDF. Or you can choose Combine files in Foxit PhantomPDF… to convert multiple
files. See also Create PDFs from multiple files.
Tip: When right-clicking a folder, if you choose Convert to PDF in Foxit PhantomPDF, all files in the
folder and the sub-folders will be converted to PDFs separately; if you choose Combine files in Foxit
PhantomPDF…, you can add more files/folders and convert all of them to PDFs. See also Create
PDFs from multiple files.
Create PDFs in the Foxit PhantomPDF Application Window
Create a PDF from a File
You can create a PDF from Office, email, a web site, or from any file that prints.
1. Launch Foxit PhantomPDF, choose File > Create > From File, or choose Convert > Create > From
Files > From File.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
61
2. In the Open dialog box, select a file. You can browse all file types when you select All Supported
Files (*.xls, *.xlt, …) from the File type menu.
3. Select a file you want to convert and click Open to convert the file to a PDF.
4. Type a filename and specify a location in the pop-up Save dialog box.
Note: Depending on the type of file being converted, a progress dialog box appears and Foxit
PhantomPDF opens automatically.
Create PDFs from multiple files
You can easily merge files of different types into a single PDF, or you can also convert them into
separate PDFs.
1. Choose File > Create > From Multiple Files, or choose Convert > Create > From Files > From
Multiple Files, or right-click a file you want to convert to PDF and choose Combine files in
Foxit PhantomPDF….
2. In the Convert Multiple Files dialog box, click Add Files… to select the files you want to
combine. (Tip: If you add a PDF portfolio, you can choose whether to extract each file in the
portfolio into the file list in the Convert Multiple Files dialog box. By default, the files will be
listed in an ascending order by the file name.)
3. (Optional) When combining multiple files to a single PDF, you can right-click any file in the
dialog box and choose Edit Bookmark for File (or just double-click the file) and modify the
bookmark title that will be one of the bookmarks in the combined PDF after conversion. By
default, the bookmarks in the combined PDF are the names of each file.
4. (Optional) When combining multiple files to a single PDF, you can adjust the order of files to
be displayed in the combined PDF by the files’ name, modified time, size, or bates numbering
by clicking the corresponding column name. Click the column name again to reverse the
order. (Note: To order by bates numbering, all files in the dialog box should be PDFs and use
the same bates numbering formatting.) Or, adjust the order of files manually as desired by
using Move Up/Down, or drag and drop a file to change the file order. Select a file and click
the Remove button to delete it.
5. (Optional) When you select a Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or PDF file, the button named
“Choose Pages” appears next to the Remove button; if you select an Excel file, the “Choose
Sheets” button appears. You can specify a page range or choose sheets to convert.
6. Choose a type of converted PDF file and click Convert:
- Convert multiple files to PDF files – All the files will be converted to different PDF files.
- Merge multiple files into a single PDF file – All the files will be converted to a single PDF file.
Add a new table of contents page converted from bookmarks: creates a table of contents
from the filenames of each file when merging multiple files into a single PDF file.
Retain the logic page numbers during combination: selects it, and the combined PDF file
will keep the logic page numbers in the original files.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
62
Tip: Foxit PhantomPDF uses original filename as a bookmark as default when combining multiple
files into a single PDF.
Create a PDF from a blank page
You can create a PDF from a blank page rather than beginning with a file, a clipboard image, or
scanning.
1. Choose File > Create >Blank, or choose Convert > Create > Blank.
2. Choose Edit > Edit Content > Add Text or Comment > Typewriter > Typewriter.
3. Click on the blank page to start typing the text you want to add to the blank page.
4. As needed, select other commands and options that you want to apply to the PDF.
5. Choose File > Save, and select a name and location for the PDF file.
Create a PDF from Clipboard
You can create a PDF directly from your clipboard.
1. Choose File > Create > From Clipboard, or choose Convert > Create > From Clipboard.
2. The texts or images in the clipboard will be converted to a new PDF file.
Convert a CAD file to a PDF (Business Only)
Foxit PhantomPDF allows users to convert .dwg and .dxf files to 2D or 3D PDF files.
1. Choose a type of PDF file you want to export in the Preferences of PhantomPDF.
2. Drag and drop the CAD file into the PhantomPDF application window or the desktop icon
.
3. Click Save, and specify a name and location for the PDF.
Create a PDF from Web Page
To create PDF from web pages:
1. Choose File > Create > From Web Page, or choose Convert > Create > From Web Page.
2. Input the URL of the web page in the box in the Create PDF From Web Page dialog box, or
click Browse to choose an HTML file.
3. Click Settings to set more conversion options.
The General tab:
Conversion Level: specify the number of levels of the website to convert to PDF, or check
Convert the entire site.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
63
Convert webpages on the same path: convert the webpages subordinate to the
input URL.
Convert webpages on the same server: convert the webpages stored on the same
server.
PDF Setting: set the timeout to load the whole web page. Loading that takes longer will
be aborted automatically, and only the loaded content will be converted to PDF. The
default value is 120s.
Disable all hyperlinks in the generated PDFs: check this item, and all hyperlinks will
be invalid in the generated PDF.
Set all the page contents to one single PDF page: check this item, and all the related
content will be converted to one PDF page.
The Page Layout tab: specify the page size, margins and orientation for the generated PDF as
needed.
Create a PDF form from an existing file
You can create a PDF form directly from an existing file during which Foxit PhantomPDF will
detect and recognize the form fields automatically, with no need to use the Run Form Field
Recognition command.
1. Choose File > Create > Form > From a file, or choose Convert > Create > Form > From a file.
2. Choose a file in the pop-up dialog box.
3. A PDF with form fields if any is created and opened with Foxit PhantomPDF.
4. Specify the file name and save path.
Create PDFs in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Foxit PhantomPDF enables you to create professional and secure PDF files from Microsoft Office
(Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook), automatically keeping bookmarks, links, hyperlinks,
outline and more of the source files in the created PDF.
In Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013/2016, Foxit PhantomPDF appears as a tab, which allows you
to quickly create PDF files and change your conversion settings in just a few clicks.
Microsoft Word 2013 Foxit PDF Tab in Business Edition
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
64
Create PDF
To create a PDF in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, please do as below:
Open a file in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, click the Foxit PDF tab and do one of the
following:
To create a PDF using the current settings, click the Create PDF button. Then enter the
file name, specify the location and click Save.
To create and email a PDF using the current settings, click Create PDF and Email . Then
enter the file name, specify the location and click Save. The created PDF file will be attached
to your mail system automatically for you to send out.
To customize your PDF conversion settings before creating a PDF, check the desired options
in the General Settings group.
View PDF Results – Once the conversion is finished, the converted PDF will be opened with
PhantomPDF automatically. This option is checked by default.
Prompt for File Name – Before conversion, the PDF file will prompt you with a dialog box to
name the file being created. This option is checked by default.
Preserve Document Properties – Keeps the document properties of the source file in the
converted PDF during the conversion. This option is checked by default.
For more settings, click the Advanced button and the Foxit PhantomPDF Add-in dialog
box pops up. Some options depend on the application in which you are using the add-in.
For the Settings tab:
Support PDF/A-1b Standard – Creates a PDF that is compliant with the PDF/A-1b
standard.
Optimize for fast web view – Creates a linearized PDF that can be opened and viewed
even before the whole file is downloaded.
Create Bookmark – In Word, keeps the bookmarks of the source file in the converted
PDF; In Excel/PPT, the sheet name and the slide title (or the slide page number) will be
converted to bookmarks in the generated PDF. This option is checked by default.
Tagged PDF – Creates a tagged PDF for accessibility. (Microsoft Office 2010 or a later
version is required.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
65
Page Range – Specifies a page range that you want to convert.
For the Watermarks, Headers/Footers, and Security tabs, please see Setting Foxit
PhantomPDF Printer Properties. In the Security tab, you can add RMS protection. For
instructions on how to add RMS protection, please refer to AD RMS Protection.
For the Bookmarks tab:
Convert Word headings to bookmarks in PDF – Check this option to convert all the
headings in the Word document into bookmarks in the PDF document. You can deselect
some headings that you don’t want converted in the heading list below.
Convert the bookmarks in Word to PDF bookmarks – Check this option to convert all the
bookmarks in the Word document into bookmarks in the PDF document.
Document Homepage: If the current Word file was previously converted to a ConnectedPDF
document, you can click the Document Homepage button to open the document homepage
of the ConnectedPDF document. The document homepage will be opened in your default
web browser, containing information of the attributes, version history, events, and
connections associated with the ConnectedPDF document.
Each ConnectedPDF document carries a unique identity which can not only be tracked and
shared without a server, but can also protected by Foxit’s Connected DRM. This type of
control protects PDF documents in real time without any further operation and deployment.
For more information about ConnectedPDF documents, please refer to ConnectedPDF.
Tip:
1. A Word file will carry a unique cDocID after being converted to a ConnectedPDF
document via the Foxit plugin within Microsoft Word.
2. Before creating a ConnectedPDF document with the Foxit plugin within Microsoft Word,
go to File > Preferences > ConnectedPDF > check Automatically save PDF files in
ConnectedPDF format in Foxit PhantomPDF. And you also need to sign in to your Foxit
account so that you are the owner of the created ConnectedPDF document. If you didn’t
check the Automatically save PDF files in ConnectedPDF format option, a normal PDF
document will be created and the Document Homepage button will be greyed out and
not available.
Sign In: You can sign in your Foxit account to directly create your own ConnectedPDF
document. Before creation, you need to go to Preferences > ConnectedPDF > check
Automatically convert Office files to Connected when converting to PDF via Office add-in.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
66
Create PDFs Using Word’s Mail Merge
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to convert personalized email messages, letters, or labels created
from Microsoft Word’s Mail Merge function to PDFs all at once. You can also change the settings
to send the PDFs via email attachments to a number of individuals if needed.
1. To create PDFs from Mail Merge, open the Word file and click Mail Merge in the Foxit
PDF tab or click Merge to Foxit PDF in the MAILINGS tab. (Note: The Word file must be a
mail merge document before you merge them to PDFs. For information on how to create a mail
merge document, please refer to Microsoft Word Help.)
2. In the Mail Merge Settings dialog box, you can specify the set by a range of record numbers.
Then specify the name of the PDFs by filling in the field for the file name or by choosing a field
from the list of fields available in your data source. (Note: If you type ReplyLetter in the Name
box, the mail-merged PDFs will be named ReplyLetter1, ReplyLetter2, ReplyLetter3, and so on.)
Click OK to continue.
3. (Optional) If you need to email the created PDFs as attachments, check the Automatically send
PDF files by email option and adjust the relevant settings as needed.
4. Specify a save path for the PDFs and click OK.
5. If you checked the Automatically send PDF files by email option, you will be prompted to
choose an email profile. Click OK to send the PDF files.
6. A message box will pop up to prompt you if the process was successful.
Create a redacted PDF (Business Edition Only)
The Foxit PhantomPDF plugin in Microsoft Word, PPT and Excel also enables users to quickly create
a redacted PDF, which can be encrypted into an RMS-protected PDF as well. For a redacted and
RMS-protected PDF, authorized users are granted access to view the full document while
unauthorized users are only able to view the redacted document. PDF redaction permanently
removes visible text and images from PDF documents to protect confidential information. This
feature allows for improved sharing of non-sensitive information within a protected document.
To create a redacted PDF or a redacted and RMS-protected PDF, select the text you want to redact
and click Mark for Redaction. Click the Create Redacted button and choose Standard Redaction
to create a redacted PDF document, or choose RMS Redaction to create a redacted and RMS-
protected PDF document. Then enter the file name, specify the location, and click Save.
For more detailed information about redaction and AD RMS integration, please refer to Redaction
and Template Creation and Editing.
Create PDFs or PDF Portfolios with Microsoft Outlook
You can quickly convert or combine .msg files (emails) into PDFs using the right-click menu with
Foxit PhantomPDF installed. Right-click a message file, and choose Convert to PDF in Foxit
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
67
PhantomPDF to convert the file to a new PDF; or choose Combine files in Foxit PhantomPDF… to
convert multiple files. See also One-click PDF Creation from Any File.
Foxit PhantomPDF also adds a plugin in Microsoft Outlook when installed and appears as a tab
entitled FOXIT PDF in the Outlook toolbar. The commands in the tab allow you to create a PDF file
or PDF portfolio from the selected email message(s) or folder(s).
Microsoft Outlook 2013 Foxit PDF Tab
To create a new PDF or PDF portfolio from the selected message(s), please select the
message(s) you want to convert and click Selected Message > Create New PDF…, or right-click
the selected message(s) and choose Convert to Foxit PDF. Then specify the name and the
location of the created PDF or PDF portfolio to begin the conversion.
Note:
1) To create a new PDF portfolio, the Output PDF Portfolio option should be checked in
General Settings group. Each message will be converted to a single PDF.
2) If the Output PDF Portfolio option is not checked, the selected message(s) will be merged
into one continuous PDF according to the time of each message was sent or received, i.e.
the latest message is on the first page.
3) The default name of the created PDF or PDF portfolio will be the title of the selected
message or the folder name of the selected messages.
To create a new PDF or PDF portfolio from the selected folder(s), please click Selected Folder >
Create New PDF…, or right-click a folder and choose Convert to Foxit PDF. Select folders you
want to convert in the pop-up Convert folder(s) to PDF dialog box. Then specify the name and
the location of the created PDF or PDF portfolio to begin the conversion.
Note:
1) To create a new PDF portfolio, the Output PDF Portfolio option should be checked in
General Settings group. Each message will be converted to a single PDF and then the
created PDF will be put into corresponding folders in the portfolio.
2) If the Output PDF Portfolio option is not checked, all messages in the selected folders will
be merged into one continuous PDF. If you create a PDF file from one folder, the latest
email message will be arranged on the first pages of the created PDF file. If you create
from multiple folders, the order is based on the order how each folder is displayed on the
Convert folder(s) to PDF dialog box first and then the time each message was sent or
received.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
68
To append to an existing PDF or PDF portfolio from the selected message(s), please select the
message(s) you want to convert and click Selected Message > Append to Existing PDF…, or
right-click the selected message(s) and choose Append to Foxit PDF. Select the existing PDF
or PDF portfolio you want to append to and click Open. The selected message(s) will be
appended to the end of the existing PDF. If the existing PDF is a PDF portfolio, the selected
messages will be created to single PDF files and then put into corresponding folders in the
existing PDF portfolio.
To append to an existing PDF or PDF portfolio from the selected folder(s), please click Selected
Folder > Append to Existing PDF…, or right-click a folder and choose Append to Foxit PDF.
Select folders you want to convert in the pop-up Convert folder(s) to PDF dialog box. Select
the existing PDF or PDF portfolio you want to append to and click Open. All messages of the
selected folder(s) will be appended to the end of the existing PDF. If the existing PDF is a PDF
portfolio, each message of the selected folders will be created to single PDF files and then put
into corresponding folders in the existing PDF portfolio.
To customize your PDF conversion settings before creating PDF, check desired options in
General Settings group.
View PDF Result – Once the conversion finishes, the converted PDF will be opened with
PhantomPDF automatically.
Output PDF Portfolio – Creates a new PDF portfolio from the selected email message(s)
or folder(s) and keeps the folder information of the selected folders in the created PDF
portfolio (i.e., the location path information of the folder in your email system). If you don’t
want to keep the folder information during conversion, please click the Advanced button and
uncheck Convert folder information option in the Settings tab. For instructions on how to
modify a PDF portfolio, please refer to Customize PDF Portfolios.
Include Attachment – Keeps the attachments of the selected email messages or folders
as the created PDF’s attachments, with the file types of the attachments unchanged.
Support PDF/A-1b Standard – Creates a PDF that is compliant with PDF/A-1b standard.
For more settings, click Advanced button and a Foxit PhantomPDF Add-in dialog box pops
up. You can add headers/footers, watermarks, security, etc. See also Setting Foxit
PhantomPDF Printer Properties. In the Security tab, you can also add RMS protection. For
instructions on how to add RMS protection, please refer to AD RMS Protection.
Foxit PhantomPDF supports automatic email archiving based on your settings. Click
Automatic Archival and check Enable Automatic Archival in the pop-up Automatic
Archival dialog box to do archival settings:
Specify the frequency and the time of the day to do the automatic archiving.
(Optional) Enable “Maintain Log of Archival” to create a record for each archiving. Click
Choose File … to name the log file and specify its storage location.
In Choose Folders for Automatic Archival box, click Add to select email folders you need
to archive and specify the name (Check the box for Append the archive date to the specified
archive file name so that the older archived files will not be overwritten) and location of the
archived email PDF. You can also click Delete to remove folders from the list or click Change
Archive File… to modify the name and location of the archived email PDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
69
(Optional) You can start archiving email right after you choose the folders for automatic
archival by clicking Run Archival Now button in the top right corner of the Automatic Archival
dialog box.
Click OK to complete setting.
Note: All archived email PDFs are PDF portfolios.
Sign In: You can sign in your Foxit account to directly create your own ConnectedPDF
document. Before creation, you need to go to Preferences > ConnectedPDF > check
Automatically convert Office files to Connected when converting to PDF via Office add-in.
With Foxit PhantomPDF installed, you can quickly convert a file to a PDF and send it with Microsoft
Outlook.
1. Create a new email, and click the Foxit PDF tab in the Outlook ribbon.
2. Click Attach as Foxit PDF, a dialog box pops up for you to choose a file, and click Open.
3. Specify a location in the dialog box to save the PDF to be generated and click Save. The
generated PDF will be automatically attached to the email.
4. (Optional) Click Sign In to sign into your Foxit account and then click Protect Attachment to
add ConnectedPDF protection to the generated PDF. The protected PDF can only be viewed
by others.
5. After typing recipients and message, click Send.
Note: If you have selected Automatically save PDF files in ConnectedPDF format (including those
created from plugins) only when signed in in File > Preferences > ConnectedPDF, the generated
PDF in Step 3 will automatically be converted to a ConnectedPDF file.
Create PDFs in Microsoft Visio (Business Edition Only)
PhantomPDF Creator Plugin in Microsoft Visio provides quick and easy PDF creation from Visio files,
while preserving the document properties in the created PDFs depending on the conversion
settings.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
70
To create a PDF in Microsoft Visio, please open a file in Microsoft Visio, click the Foxit PDF tab and
do one of the following:
To create a PDF using the current settings, click the Create PDF button. Then enter the
file name, specify the location, and then click Save.
To create and email a PDF using the current settings, click the Create PDF and Email . Then
enter the file name, specify the location, and click Save. The created PDF file will be attached
to your mail system automatically for you to send out.
To customize your PDF conversion settings before creating PDFs, please refer to Conversion
Settings in Microsoft Word. You can retain all layers or flatten all layers in the created PDFs
by choosing Retain All or Flatten All for the Layers setting. If you choose to flatten layers, the
created PDF will seem like the original Visio drawing, but without any layer information.
For the Document Homepage and Sign In buttons, please refer to Create PDFs from Microsoft
Word.
Note:
1. If you check Create Bookmarks, the created bookmarks will be named after the page
name in Visio files.
2. Only shapes and guides that are printable and visible in the Visio drawing will be
converted and will appear in the created PDF.
Create PDFs using the Print command
Foxit PhantomPDF Printer works like a standard printer, so you can use it to print your files from
any windows applications (such as Notepad and Outlook Express) as if you would print to a real
printer.
1. Open the file in its authoring application.
2. Choose File > Print.
3. Select the printer named Foxit PhantomPDF Printer, and click the Print button. If you need to
deploy print settings, click the Preferences button (See also Setting Foxit PhantomPDF Printer
Properties).
4. Specify the name and the storage location in the pop-up dialog box and click Save to start
printing. After the printing is finished, the generated PDF file will be opened directly.
Foxit PhantomPDF supports to append newly generated PDF files to a previously generated one
which are created by Print command in other application using Foxit PhantomPDF Printer. More
details please refer to the steps below.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
71
1. Change settings in Foxit PhantomPDF. Run and open the application window. Click File >
Preferences > Documents > uncheck Allow Multiple Instances, if it is checked. And click File >
Preferences > Create PDF > check Insert printed PDFs into previously generated documents,
except those created by Foxit PhantomPDF.
2. Open the file you want to convert to PDF and use the Print command to generate a new PDF.
The generated PDF file will be opened automatically with PhantomPDF. A Print Job pane appears
in navigation pane and the name of the file will be displayed on the pane. Do not close or save the
PDF file.
3. Open another file you want to append to the PDF file generated on Step 2. Convert the file with
Print command to PDF.
4. You will see that the name of the file in Step 3 is also added to the Print Job pane. That is to say,
the generated PDF file on Step 3 is appended to the generated PDF file on Step 2.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
72
5. Click File > Save. In the pop-up Save As dialog box, specify the name and location and click Save.
Create PDFs within web browsers
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to convert webpages to PDFs using the Foxit Convert commands
in the toolbar within Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. You can convert the
current webpage to a new PDF or append to an existing PDF, or send the new PDF as an email
attachment with one click.
For more about how to create PDFs within web browsers, see also Create PDFs in Microsoft Word.
Click Preferences for more settings. See also Create a PDF from Web Page and Conversion Settings
in Microsoft Word.
Create PDFs using Print to Evernote
Foxit PhantomPDF adds a new printer “Print to Evernote” after installation. This feature enables
the user to send the PDF file as an attachment to Evernote, as well as the option to create a PDF
the same as Foxit’s PDF printer does.
To create a PDF using Print to Evernote, see below:
1. Install the Evernote application and sign in to an Evernote account.
2. Open the file you want to convert to PDF, and choose File > Print > Print to Evernote.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
73
3. Set the print properties and then click Print. Name the PDF file and specify© the storage location.
4. You will see that the PDF file is created and also attached in Evernote.
Create PDFs using Scanner
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to create a PDF directly from a paper document using your scanner.
You can scan a document to PDF directly with custom settings or by using preset preferences that
you configured before.
See also the tutorial on Scan Documents into PDF.
Scan with custom settings
To scan a document to PDF with custom settings, please follow as below:
Choose File > Create > From Scanner > the From Scanner… button, or choose Convert >
Create > From Scanner, or choose the Home tab > the Convert group > the Scan button > the
Scan command.
Select a scanner and related options in the Scan dialog box.
Note: You must have the manufacturer’s scanning software installed on your computer.
Advanced Options (Windows only): clicks to open the Scanner Options dialog box. (Available
only after you select a scanner.)
Transfer Mechanism: Native mode transfers data by default in your scanner. Buffered
memory mode scans in resolutions of over 600DPI.
Configure scanner:
Configure scanner using scanner interface: Checks this option and directly use the
scanner interface to scan. Then the following items (i.e. Source, Color Mode, Paper Size
and Resolution) will not be available and the settings in the scanner interface will not be
able to saved as a preset.
Sides: Specify single or double-sided scanning. If you select Both Sides but the settings of
the scanner are for only one side, the scanner setting overrides the Foxit settings.
Color Mode (Windows only): selects a basic color mode (Black and White, Grayscale,
Color or Auto Detect) supported by your scanner.
Paper Size (Windows only): selects a paper size.
Resolution (Windows only): selects a resolution supported by your scanner.
Output:
New PDF Document: Output the scanning results as a new PDF document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
74
Append: Append the converted scan to an existing PDF file. After selecting this option,
click Browse to find and select an existing PDF file from your local disk.
Optimize Scanned PDF:
Reduce size and optimize: checks this item and clicks Options to customize compression
and filtering. The Optimization Options dialog box for image settings controls how
scanned images are compressed for the PDF. Default settings are suitable for a wide range
of document pages, but you may want to customize settings for higher quality images and
smaller file sizes.
Color/Gray settings: when scanning color or gray pages, select JPEG,
JPEG2000(Lossless) or JPEG2000(Lossy) to apply JPEG compression to the entire gray
or RGB input page. Select High-Compression to apply image compression in high-
quality with small size (Available in Business Edition Only).
Low/High Quality: drags the slider to set the balance point between file size and
quality.
Monochrome: when scanning black-and-white or monotone images, select one of
the following:
JBIG 2(Lossless)/ JBIG2(Lossy): apply an image compression standard for bi-
level images which is suitable for lossless or lossy compression.
CCITT Group 4: applies CCITT Group 4 compression to black-and-white input
page images.
High-Compression: applies to high-quality with small size compression.
(Available in Business Edition Only)
Deskew: chooses On to automatically rotate any page so that the text is vertically
aligned, which is of great use for cleaning up scanned PDFs.
Remove blank pages: removes the blank pages from the scanned PDF after scanning.
Make Searchable(run OCR): checks this item and clicks Options to run OCR in scanned
PDFs. See also “Recognize Text”.
Save as Preset: saves the current scanning settings as a preset with which you can quickly
start a scan next time. In the pop-up Save Preset dialog box, rename the preset as needed
and click Save.
Click Scan. If you checked Configure scanner using scanner interface previously, specify the
scan settings as needed and then scan the document based on your scanner’s settings.
A dialog box pops up, asking you whether to scan more pages, or to scan the reverse sides if
you chose both sides in the Sides option previously. Choose a desired option.
When the scanning is complete, the new scanned PDF or the existing PDF with the scanned
pages appended at the end will automatically be opened, with a new tab named “POST-SCAN”
in the ribbon.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
75
The Post-Scan Options tab:
Optimize Scanned PDF: optimizes the scanned PDF for a smaller size and better display
effect. See also “Custom Scan”.
OCR Current File: runs OCR in the current scanned PDF after saving the document. See
also “Recognize Text”.
Page Organize: navigates to the Organize tab where you can apply these commands on
the PDF pages.
Grayscale/ Black & White: adjusts the color mode of the scanned PDF. You can change
the mode from Color to Grayscale/ Black & White, or from Grayscale to Black & White;
but not the reverse.
Edit Document Information: modifies the scanned document information including
Author, Title and File name.
Close: closes the Post-Scan Options tab.
Choose File > Save, and specify a name and location for the scanned PDF file.
Scan with a Configured Preset (Windows)
You can configure scan parameters or options and save as presets. When you are ready to scan you
can choose one of them with just one click. To scan a paper document to PDF using a configured
preset, please choose Home tab > Convert group > Scan button > select a preset to scan
documents. See also “Configure presets”.
Configure presets
To configure a new preset, please do the following:
Click Home > Convert > Scan and click Scan.
Select a scanner and then complete the settings (See also “Custom Scan”).
Click Save as Preset to save the preset. Or click Scan to start a scan with the preset.
To modify presets, click Home > Convert > Scan > Manage presets to edit, delete and move the
existing presets in the Manage Scan Presets dialog box. You can also create a preset by clicking
Create.
Optimize Scanned PDF
Foxit PhantomPDF supports the size optimization of scanned PDFs during PDF creation from a
scanner or by choosing File > Optimize Scanned PDF in an existing scanned or image-based PDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
76
See also “POST-SCAN tab”.
Create and Customize a PDF Portfolio
You can use Foxit PhantomPDF to quickly create a blank PDF portfolio or a new PDF portfolio from
any file. After creation, you can also add more files/folders, create folders, delete files/folders and
more within the PDF portfolio.
To create a blank PDF portfolio, please click Convert > Create > PDF Portfolio > Create a blank PDF
portfolio, or click File > Create > PDF Portfolio > Create a blank PDF Portfolio. In the ribbon appears
the Portfolio tab where you can change the view mode, add files/folders, and create folders. By
default, there are two panes in the document area. All the files are displayed in Layout view in the
left pane and the Preview of the selected file is displayed in the right pane.
To create a new PDF portfolio from a file, please click Convert > Create > PDF Portfolio > Create a
new PDF portfolio, or click File > Create > PDF Portfolio > Create a new PDF Portfolio from existing
files. Select the files you want to attach to a PDF portfolio and click Open. You can also add more
files or folders after creation.
Tip: To quickly add files/folders, you can also copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop files/folders to the
portfolio.
To customize a PDF portfolio, you can edit PDF files in the portfolio using the toolbar at the top of
the left pane as needed and do any of the following:
- To delete a file, select it and click button, or right-click it and choose Delete.
- To extract a file from the portfolio, select it and click button, or right-click the file and
choose Extract from Portfolio…. Then specify the name and location of the extracted file.
- To edit the description of the portfolio, please navigate to File > Properties > Description.
Tip: You can do more actions by right-clicking a file in the portfolio.
OCR PDFs into searchable and editable PDFs
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a software process that enables images or printed text
to be translated into machine-readable text. OCR is most commonly used when scanning paper
documents to create electronic copies, but can also be performed on existing electronic
documents (e.g. PDF).
Recognize text
Foxit PhantomPDF can detect whether a PDF file is scanned or image-based and make
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
77
corresponding suggestions to initiate OCR when opening a scanned or image-based PDF.
To recognize image-based or scanned text in a file, perform the following steps:
1. Click Convert > Convert > OCR > Current File, in the Select OCR Engine dialog box, specify the
range you need.
2. Choose the language used in your document. You can select multiple languages as well.
3. In the output type, check Searchable Text Image to make the image text searchable (or check
Editable Text to enable the image text to be edited with Foxit PhantomPDF). Click OK to
recognize the text.
Note: If you are prompted to download the OCR component after clicking OK, please click Yes
to download and install it, or download it later from the link provided and install it by clicking
Install Update in the Help tab. To get the full version of Foxit PhantomPDF, please contact us.
4. (Optional) if you check Find All Suspect (Show all OCR results that may need to be changed.),
the OCR suspects will be enclosed in red boxes for you to check and correct right after the
recognition completes. (OCR suspects refer to the text that can hardly be recognized or may
not be recognized correctly and need to be corrected manually.) How to correct OCR suspects,
please refer to Find and Correct OCR Suspects.
5. A recognition text process bar will pop up to show the progress.
6. Do the search function, the text on your image or scanned document will be searchable.
Tip: Foxit PhantomPDF provides a Quick OCR command under Home/Convert tab to recognize all
pages of a scanned or image-based PDF with default or previous settings by one-click.
To recognize text in multiple files:
1. Click the Convert tab > Convert group > OCR > Multiple Files.
2. In the OCR Multiple Files dialog box, click Add Files to add files or folders. Use Move up, Move
down, and Remove to adjust the order of the files.
3. Click Output Options…, in the Output Options dialog box, select the destination folder, and
choose how to name the new file and whether to overwrite an existing one. Then click OK.
4. Click OK. After recognition, a message box will pop up to prompt you the recognition is finished.
Note:
1. When you are using the CJK OCR engine for the first time, the system will remind you to
download and install the engine from the Foxit server.
2. If there is any unsupported file added, a “Remove unsupported file(s)” button will appear in the
OCR Multiple Files dialog box. Click the button to remove the unsupported file(s) and then
continue.
Find and Correct OCR Suspects
After recognizing image-based or scanned texts in the PDF file, you can pick out and correct the
texts or characters that are uncertain as the steps below:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
78
1. Click the Convert tab > Convert group > OCR > Suspect Results > First Suspect. A pop-up Find
OCR Suspects dialog box appears with a Foxit PhantomPDF box appearing to prompt you with
Find Completed.
Find OCR Suspects dialog box
Note: By default, the suspect results are based on the Search Document. You can also select Search
Page to find suspects on the current page and redo this step.
2. The Find OCR Suspects dialog box shows both the original document text and the OCR text.
You can edit text in the OCR text box directly if needed. If the highlighted text is incorrectly
identified, click Not Text. Click Find Next to find the next suspect or click Accept and Find to
accept the suspect and find next.
3. If you choose the Convert tab > Convert group > OCR > Suspect Results > All Suspects. The
Find OCR Suspects dialog box also pops up and all the OCR suspects will be highlighted with
red boxes as below:
Original Document Text in the PDF file
Suspect Results of the OCRed Text
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
79
You can check the highlighted text by clicking any highlighted parts. Click the place where it is
incorrect and input the correct text in the OCR text box in the Find OCR Suspects dialog box.
4. Click Close to exit the Find OCR Suspects dialog box.
Create a table of contents from bookmarks
You may want to conveniently create a table of contents from existing bookmarks for a hierarchy
structure when viewing a PDF file. Foxit PhantomPDF offers two ways to create a table of contents.
The new table of contents page will be inserted as the first page of the PDF.
To create a table of contents when merging multiple files into a single PDF file, please select
“Add a new table of contents page converted from bookmarks” in the Convert Multiple Files
dialogue box. The table of contents page will be created from the filenames of the selected
files.
To create a table of contents in a current PDF, please click the button on the bookmark
panel. Select the bookmark levels you want converted into items in the table of the contents
in the Add a new content of table dialog box. The table of contents page will be created from
the bookmarks of the current PDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
80
Chapter 5 – Edit
Foxit PhantomPDF provides not only general editing features to create bookmarks, add links,
attach files, add images, play and insert multimedia files on PDF files, but also advanced editing
features to select, insert, modify, remove and rotate texts, images, graphics and shadings. You can
go to the Edit tab directly to use different editing features to easily and efficiently change contents
in any existing PDF files.
Right-click any PDF file and choose Edit with Foxit PhantomPDF, then the PDF will be opened with
the toolbar automatically navigating to the Edit tab, ready for your editing.
Undo and Redo
When making quick adjustments to your document, you may want to undo or redo the most recent
action performed. You can undo and redo up to 10,000 actions in Foxit PhantomPDF.
Undo your last action
Click Undo on the Quick Access toolbar of Foxit PhantomPDF window.
Press Ctrl + Z.
Note: Some actions can’t be undone, such as clicking any command on the File menu. If you can’t
undo an action, the Undo command will be grayed out .
Redo actions
Click Redo on the Quick Access toolbar of the Foxit PhantomPDF window.
Press Shift + Ctrl + Z.
Links
This function helps you to lead the readers to related articles, references, or the intended web
page.
Generally speaking, there are three commands of links for you: Link , Web Links and
Bookmark in Foxit PhantomPDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
81
Link
Add a link
The Link command enables you to add a link with the shape of rectangle on the PDFs.
To add a rectangle link, please do the following:
Choose Edit > Links > Link .
Position the cursor on the place you want to add the link, hold and drag your mouse button
to draw a rectangle.
Tip: To draw a square link, press Shift key when you hold and drag your mouse button.
Pops up the Create Link dialog box. Specify the appearance and destination of the link.
Appearance
A. Thickness – the thickness of the four sides of the rectangle. The higher of the value, the
thicker of the sides. You can choose the thickness from 0-12, while the default is 1.
B. Border Style – the style of the rectangle’s border. There are three types of the border
styles:
Solid: the border is solid, but not hollowed out.
Dashed: the border is drawn as a dashed line.
Underline: the sides are visible except the underline.
Solid Style Dashed Style Underline Style
Three types of border style
C. Highlight - the effect when you click the rectangle link. There are four types of the
highlighting effects:
None: doesn’t change the appearance of the link.
Invert: changes the link’s color to its opposite.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
82
Outline: changes the link’s outline color to its opposite.
Inset: creates the appearance of an embossed rectangle.
None Invert Outline Inset
Four types of highlight
D. Color - the border color of the rectangle. Click the color button to choose any colors you
like, or you may choose Other Color to add a customized color. The default color is red.
Destination
The destination refers to any point or location, for example, a web page, a named file or
position the link goes to. There are four options for you to choose:
A. Go to a page view – designate the link to a specific page view. Not only can you designate
the link to a page in the current PDF, but you can also set the link to the page in another PDF.
Also, you may change the current zoom setting and then set the position.
To go to a page view, choose this option, click the Next button and do one of the following:
Set the position in current document – scroll the current document, go to a new position
where you want to set and click Set this position.
Set the position in a local PDF document – click the Open button on the Quick
Access toolbar of the application window > select the PDF you want to set position to >
scroll this document and go to a position where you want to set > click Set this position.
Set the position in a PDF file attachment – click the Attachments icon in the Navigation
pane to open the Attachments panel > open the file attachment by double click > scroll
through the file attachment and go to a position where you want to set > click Set this
position.
Note:
1. The new PDF document should be opened in a new tab in the existing window
but not a new window. While setting the position, you can press Ctrl + mouse
scroll to change the page magnification. Before setting the position, you can click
Cancel to cancel your operation, if necessary.
2. The linked local PDF documents are saved in your local disks. You need to send
the parent PDF document and the linked documents to users to ensure that the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
83
linked documents can be opened. However, the linked PDF file attachments are
always saved with the PDF document. To link to a position in a PDF file
attachment, you should open a PDF file that contains PDF file attachments. If not,
please follow the steps in Add a file to the entire PDF as an attachment to add
PDF file attachments first.
Change the view magnification -- scroll in the current document or another document >
go to a new position where you want to set > change the magnification of the position >
click Set this position.
Click Cancel to cancel out of your operation.
B. Go to a named position – designate the link to a named position that has been set by the
creator of the current document.
To go to a named position, choose this option and click the Next button > select a named
position for the pop-up list > click OK.
Note: An empty pop-up list indicates that no position has been named by the document’s
creator.
C. Open/execute a file – designate the link to open another file. To do this, please follow the
steps below:
Choose Open/execute a file > click the Next button > select the destination file and click
Select.
D. Open a web page – designate the link to open a web page. Do the following:
Choose Open a web page > click the Next button > enter the URL of the destination web
page or click the drop-down button to select a web site you have opened before.
E. Others (use action property page) – add an action to the link. Please refer to “Actions tab
for the button properties” for more details.
Move or resize a link
You can move and resize the link after you create it.
Select one of the link commands or the Select Annotation command , and then move
the cursor over the link until the cursor turns into an arrow .
Then do one of the following:
A. To move the link, drag it to the desired area.
B. To resize the link, drag any corner point to adjust.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
84
Delete a link
Select the Link command or the Select Annotation command , and then move the cursor
over the link until the cursor turns into an arrow .
Select the link you want to delete.
Press the Delete key.
Web Links
Foxit PhantomPDF allows users to check URLs in the PDF document automatically and add link
annotations directly to the related URLs.
Create web links from URLs
To create web links, please do as following:
1. Click Edit > Links > Create links from URLs . A message box will pop up to prompt you
whether to proceed because the operation cannot be undone. Click Yes to continue.
2. In the pop-up Create web links dialog box, choose All to create links from all URL in the
document, or choose From …To and enter a page range to create links on selected pages. Click OK.
3. A message box will pop up to prompt you how many web links were added to the document.
To remove all web links, choose Edit > Links > Remove all links .
Bookmarks
Please refer to Bookmarks.
Bookmarks
Bookmarks are navigational tools that make your PDF files easier to read. They are usually
generated automatically during the PDF creation.
Bookmarks are useful for users to mark a place in a PDF file so users can return to it with ease. Or
you may like to have your own bookmark structure and new bookmark names. With Foxit
PhantomPDF, you can easily nest, edit, or delete bookmarks in a PDF file if the security settings
allow.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
85
Add a bookmark
1. Go to the page where you want the bookmark to link to.
2. (Optional) If there is no bookmark in the document, click Edit > Links > Bookmark , or click
the New Bookmark icon at the top of the Bookmarks panel.
3. Select the bookmark after which you want to place the new bookmark. If you don’t select a
bookmark, the new bookmark is automatically added at the end of the bookmark list. Click Edit >
Links > Bookmark, or click the New Bookmark icon at the top of the Bookmarks panel, or
right-click the selected bookmark and choose Add Bookmark.
4. Type or edit the name of the new bookmark, and press Enter.
Tip:
1. If some of the bookmarks in the document have long names, you can right-click the
Bookmarks panel and choose Wrap Long Bookmarks, so that the long bookmark names
will appear on multiple lines within the Bookmarks panel. To unwrap, choose Don’t Wrap
Long Bookmarks from the right-click menu of the Bookmarks panel.
2. To add a bookmark, you can also right-click on the page where you want the bookmark to
link to and choose Add Bookmark. Before this, if you have chosen an existing bookmark (if
any) in the Bookmarks panel, the newly added bookmark will automatically be added right
behind the existing bookmark (in the same hierarchy); if you haven’t selected any existing
bookmark, the new bookmark will be added at the end of the bookmark list.
Edit a bookmark
In Foxit PhantomPDF, you are able to rename a bookmark, reset a bookmark’s destination, or
customize the text appearance of a bookmark with ease if the security settings allow.
To rename a bookmark
Right-click the bookmark you want to rename in the Bookmarks panel > Rename> type the new
bookmark name. Or you double click the bookmark you want to rename and then type the new
name.
To reset a bookmark’s destination
In the document pane, move to the location you want to specify as the new destination.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
86
(Optional) Adjust the view magnification.
Right-click the bookmark, choose Set Destination and select Yes.
To customize the text appearance of a bookmark
In the Bookmarks panel, right-click the bookmark > choose Properties.
In the Bookmark Properties dialog box, click the Appearance tab, and select the font style and
color for the text.
Note: After defining a bookmark’s appearance, you can set it as bookmarks’ default property by
right-clicking the bookmark and then selecting the option of Use Current Appearance as New
Default.
To add an action to a bookmark
Right-click a bookmark, and choose Properties.
In the Bookmark Properties dialog box, click Actions.
Choose an action from the Select Action menu and click Add, and then refer to the section of
“Actions tab for the button properties”.
To delete a bookmark, please do one of the following:
Select the bookmark you want to delete and click the Delete button at the top of the
Bookmarks panel. (Ctrl-click to select more than one bookmark. To select a continuous group
of bookmarks, click one bookmark, then hold the Shift key and click the last bookmark.)
Right-click the bookmark you want to delete and choose Delete.
Note: Deleting a bookmark deletes all the bookmarks that are subordinate to it.
Move a bookmark
Select the bookmark (named “Bookmark A”) you want to move, and then do one of the following:
Hold the mouse button down and then drag “Bookmark A” icon directly to the desired
place. The Line icon shows the place where the icon will be located.
Right-click “Bookmark A” icon and choose the Cut option > right-click the
bookmark(named “Bookmark B”) under which you want to place “Bookmark A”, choose
“Paste after Selected Bookmark” if you want to put “Bookmark A” after “Bookmark B”, which
will be in the same hierarchy with “Bookmark A”; or choose “Paste under Selected Bookmark”
if you want to put “Bookmark A” under the “Bookmark B”, which will be the parent bookmark.
Note: The bookmark links to its original destination in the document although it is moved.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
87
Organize a bookmark hierarchy
A bookmark hierarchy is an outline or stratified structure that places some bookmarks within
others. In Foxit PhantomPDF, multilevel bookmark hierarchy can be defined by properly dragging
the bookmark icon in the Bookmark panel.
To nest a bookmark or move a bookmark out of nested position, please refer to Move a bookmark.
To expand or collapse a bookmark
Click the plus sign (+) next to the bookmark icon to show any children. Click the minus sign (-) to
collapse the list. To collapse all bookmarks, right-click any bookmark in the Bookmarks panel and
choose Expand/ Collapse All Bookmarks in the context menu. When no bookmarks are expanded
in the Bookmarks panel, you can right-click any bookmark and choose Expand/ Collapse All
Bookmarks to expand all bookmarks.
Destinations
When creating a link in a PDF, you can link to a specified destination in the document. With Foxit
PhantomPDF, you can create and manage destinations in the Destinations panel in the navigation
pane.
Create and link a destination
1. Navigate to the location in the document you want to set as the destination.
2. In the Destinations panel, click the Create new destination icon or choose the New
Destination command from the Options menu. Name the destination.
3. Save the document.
4. Create a link in the document with the Link command under the Edit tab. In the Create Link
dialog box, select Go to a named position and click Next….
5. Select a position from the list in the pop-up Go to a named position dialog box, and click OK.
6. Save the document.
Manage destinations
You can sort, change, and delete destinations in the Destinations panel.
Sort destinations
To sort destinations, choose Sort by Name or Sort by Page from the Options menu in the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
88
Destinations panel.
Change destinations
To move to the target location, double-click the destination. Or right-click the destination and
choose Go To Destination.
To reset the location of the destination, navigate to the desired location, right-click the destination
and choose Set Destination.
To rename a destination, select the destination, click on the name of destination and type a new
name. Or right-click the destination and choose Rename.
Delete destinations
To delete a destination, right-click a destination, and choose Delete or press Delete on the
keyboard.
File Attachments
You can attach PDF files and other types of files to a PDF. There are two options for you to add an
attachment: attaching a file as a comment and attaching a file to the entire PDF. An attached file
as a comment will appear in the page with the File Attachment icon by default, while the
attached file to the PDF file acts invisible and only can be seen when you click the Attachment panel
in the navigation pane.
Add a file as a comment
1. Choose Comment > Pin > File.
2. Position the cursor to the place where you want to attach a file as a comment > click the
selected position.
3. In the Open dialog box, select the file you want to attach, and click Open.
4. The File Attachment Icon appears at the place you designated in the PDF file.
Work on the attachment comment
You can open the attachment, add a description, move and delete it, and set the preferences.
Open an attachment
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
89
Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command and do the following:
1. Double-click the File Attachment icon .
2. In Open file attachment dialog box, select one of the three options and click OK.
A. Open the file attachment – open this file attachment and the dialog box will always pop
up when you double-click the File Attachment icon.
B. Always open file attachments of this type – open this file attachment and the files of this
type will be opened automatically when you double-click the File Attachment Icon next
time.
C. Never open file attachments of this type – forbid to open the file attachments of this type.
Whenever you double-click the File Attachment Icon, the files of this type will be
forbidden to open and you’ll be prompted that “File attachment of this type cannot be
opened because of your security settings”.
See also “Doing security settings”.
Note: If you are in Safe Reading Mode, a dialog box will pop up when you open an attachment.
Check Disable Safe Reading Mode and Open file, and then double click the File Attachment icon
to open the attached file.
Move a file attachment icon
Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command , click and drag the File
Attachment Icon to move it to other place.
Delete an attachment comment
Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command , and do one of the following:
Right-click the File Attachment icon and choose Delete.
Click the File Attachment icon and press Delete key.
More options with an attachment comment
You are able to work on the attachment comment just like an ordinary comment, including set
status, mark with checkmark, open popup note and add some descriptions, reply to the comment,
and change the icon’s appearance. For all the operations, please refer to “Chapter 7 – Comment”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
90
Add a file to the entire PDF as an attachment
1. Click the attachment button on the navigation pane and click Add button , or choose
Edit > Insert > File Attachment .
2. In the File Attachment dialog box, click the Add Files… button.
3. Select the file you want to attach in the pop-up dialog box, and click Open.
4. Click OK after adding the desired files.
5. The added document will be displayed in the attachment panel.
Tip:
1. An easy method to add a file attachment to PDFs, you can just drag and drop the file you want
to attach to the attachment panel. Foxit PhantomPDF will pop up a window to ask you whether
to attach the selected file to current PDF document. Click OK to complete the operation. Check
“Always attach file when dragging files to the attachment panel” option and the next time the
file will be attached directly without this pop-up window.
2. Save the document after adding file attachments, and a red dot appears on the icon of the
attachment panel in the navigation pane.
Work on the attachments
You can open, save, edit descriptions, delete and do settings to the attachments. Click the
attachment button on the navigation pane > Open button /Save button /Add button
/Edit Description button /Settings /Delete button .
Security settings
To change the security settings you have set when you open the attachment file as a comment,
Click the Settings button in the Attachment Panel and do one of the following:
To add a new extension, click the Add button to input the file extension in the Security Settings
dialog box.
To delete an extension, click one of the existing extensions and click the Delete button.
To change the settings of how to open the attachments of the type, choose one of the three
options listed.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
91
Images
You can specify a rectangle on any part of a PDF page and then insert an image into that rectangle.
This feature is helpful when you want to explain or show something more dynamically.
Add an image
You can add an image to a PDF with the Image Annotation command . After you insert a new
image, you can adjust its size and position, change the appearance and other settings, etc.
To add an image, do the following:
Choose Edit > Insert > Image Annotation .
Drag a rectangle on the page to define the canvas area for the image.
In the Add Image dialog box, click the Browse button to select the image that you want to
insert and click the Open button. You will see the URL of this image has been added to the
Location field.
Click the Advanced… button to edit the setting of the image.
A. When to scale – choose when to scale the image you insert.
B. Scale – choose to scale the image non-proportionally or proportionally. This option will be
disabled when you select Never in the field of When to scale.
C. Border – drag and move the scroll bar to change image’s position in the rectangle. The
coordinates change when you move the scroll bar.
Click OK for your changes to take effect, or click Reset to reset the data to the original settings.
Click OK.
Apply an image to other pages
After adding an image, you may want to place the same image on additional pages while
maintaining the original location and settings.
To apply an image to other pages, please do the following:
1. Right click on the image you wish to apply to other pages.
2. Choose the option Place on Multiple Pages in the menu.
3. Specify the page range.
4. Click OK.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
92
Move and resize an image
To move an image, please do the following:
1. Select the Select Annotation command or the Image Annotation command , put the
cursor over the image and the cursor changes into an arrow .
2. Click and drag the image to another place you like.
To resize an image, please do the following:
1. Select the Select Annotation command or the Image Annotation command , put the
cursor over the image and the cursor turns into an arrow , and then click the image.
2. Place the cursor on any corner point. The cursor changes into the cursor showing the direction
at which the rectangle will be resized.
To resize the image
3. Drag the cursor outside, it will increase the size of the rectangle proportionally. Drag the cursor
inside and it will decrease the size of the rectangle proportionally.
Set properties of an image
1. Double-click the image or right-click it and select Properties….
2. In the Appearance tab, do any of the following:
Annotation is hidden from view – The image annotation will be invisible in Hand command
mode.
Border – Select the border width of the image and the border’s style and color.
Locked – When selected, prevents any further changes to any image properties.
Close – Applies and saves the current properties, and closes the image properties dialog
box.
3. In the Settings tab, follow the steps in “To add an image”.
4. For the Actions tab, please refer to “Actions tab for the button properties”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
93
Delete an image
1. Select the Select Annotation command or the Image Annotation command , put the
cursor over the image and the cursor turns into an arrow , and then click the image.
2. Press Delete or right-click the image > Delete.
Select multiple images
1. Select the Select Annotation command or the Image Annotation command .
2. Press and hold Shift or Ctrl and click the images you want to edit.
Align images
Select two or more images that you want to align.
Click Edit tab > Arrange group > Arrange button > select a type of alignment, or right-click the
anchor > Align, and then choose a command as follows:
A. To align a column of images, choose Left, Right, or Vertically to align them respectively to
the left edge, right edge, or vertical axis of the anchor image.
B. To align a row of images, choose Top, Bottom, or Horizontally to align them respectively
to the top edge, bottom edge, or horizontal axis of the anchor image.
Note: When you right-click or Ctrl-click one of the selected images, it will be highlighted in red,
indicating that it’s the anchor image. The align menu commands move the other selected images
to line up with the edges of the anchor image.
Below is an example:
A. Suppose that you want to set A
as the anchor image.
A
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
94
Center images
This function enables you to center the rectangle enclosed by the images you select vertically,
horizontally or both.
Below is an example:
B. Select these two images > right-
click A and choose Align > Left.
You will see the other image is
placed to the left edge of A.
A. Select two images. You can see
these two images consist of an
area with the shape of rectangle
(marked with red).
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
95
Distribute images
This function will be available when selecting three or more images.
To distribute the images evenly between the topmost and bottommost images, choose
Distribute > Vertically.
To distribute the images evenly between the leftmost and rightmost images, choose Distribute >
Horizontally.
Below is an example:
B. Right-click one of the images >
Center > Vertically. You will find
that the red rectangle is
centered vertically in the page.
A. Select three images A, B and C. A
is the topmost image and C is the
bottommost image.
A
B
C
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
96
Resize images
You can adjust multiple images with the same height, width, or both. Select one of the images as
the anchor, and the rest of the images will be resized with the same height or width as that of the
anchor image.
Below is an example:
B. Right-click any one of the images >
Distribute > Vertically. And you will
see that B is distributed evenly
between A and C.
A
B
C
A. Select images A and B. Suppose
that you want to set A as the
anchor image.
A
B
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
97
Setting properties of multiple images
Select multiple images > right-click one of them > Properties…
A dialog pops up with an Appearance tab. Follow the steps specified in “Setting properties of
an image”.
PDF Optimizer
With the PDF optimizer, users can compress the images, clear out the data redundancy of PDF
objects and update your PDFs.
Choose File > PDF Optimizer.
Setting the properties in the PDF Optimizer dialogue box.
Click Audit space usage to see the space usage of the current PDF file and then you can decide
which items are needed to be optimized.
In Make compatible with, select a PDF version to save the current file under.
For Compress Images, you can specify color/grayscale and monochrome image settings,
including image downsampling and image compression. Choose the appropriate down
sampling method in the Downsample list box (including average the downsampling,
subsampling and the bicubic downsampling) or you can choose the Off item to turn off the
option. Set the right pixels and image compression (including retaining existing, JPEG and high
compression). See also “Custom Scan”.
Note: If you check the option “Optimize images only if there is a reduction in size”, the images will
not be optimized when there are no reductions.
For Unembed Fonts, move the embedded fonts to the right list to lift to embed.
For Discard Objects, please check the objects settings you want to discard.
For Discard User Data, please check the user related information you want to discard.
A
B
B. Right-click A > Size > Height. And
you will see that the height of B is
resized to be the same as that of
A.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
98
For Clean Up, please check the Cleanup settings you want to optimize the document.
Click OK button and save the optimized PDF file.
Action Wizard (Business Edition Only)
For users who need to work on PDF documents through a series of routine tasks, PhantomPDF’s
Action Wizard can help them to automate it with a predefined action. What users need to do is
just create an action that includes all the tasks to be applied to the PDFs, and then run the action
to process the PDFs in a single step.
Create an action
To streamline your work using Action Wizard, please follow the steps below to create an action:
1. Choose Action Wizard in the File tab, and click Create New Action > Create. The Create New
Action dialog box appears.
2. By default, the current open file will be the file processed by the action. You can add more files
or folders to be processed by clicking Add Files, Add Folder, or Add Open Files. You can also
re-order the files/folders you selected, and the action will be run in that order.
3. Then choose the commands needed for the tasks from the left column and add them to the
right column. You can reorder the tasks by clicking Move Up/Down or delete a task by clicking
Remove. The tasks will be executed in the order you set.
4. For some tasks (such as header and footer, and watermark), you can predefine options by
clicking Specify Settings. If you check Prompt User you’ll be prompted to select options or
specify settings when running the action.
5. More settings:
(1) Rename the panel by double-clicking the Untitled label. Click Add Panel to add more
panels to group tasks.
(2) Choose a task and click Add Instruction to add an instruction below it.
(3) Add a divider line below the selected task by clicking Add Divider.
(4) Click Move Up/Down to move the selected task/instruction/divider line/panel, or click
Remove to delete them.
6. Click Save.
7. Name the action and input the description for the action in the dialog box. Then click OK.
Run an action
After you create your action, you just open the file and run the action.
1. Click File > Action Wizard > Run Action and select an action.
2. A pane appears in the right of the application window, showing all the tasks in the action.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
99
3. (Optional) In addition to the files/folders specified in the action, you can add more files/folders
to be processed by clicking Add Files, Add Folder, or Add Open Files.
4. Click Start.
5. You may be prompted to provide information like the storage location. A check mark will be
added to each task after the task is completed.
6. (Optional) you can click Stop in the panel to stop processing the action. All tasks that have
been executed will be saved. Click Resume to continue the action. Or click the Close button of
the panel to exit the action.
7. After all tasks in the action are completed, the Done button will appear in the panel.
Tip: Foxit PhantomPDF provides several ready-to-use actions that include common tasks like file
distribution, PDF optimization, and document archive.
Manage actions
Click File > Action Wizard > Manage Actions > Manage, and the Manage Actions dialog box pops
up and lists all the available actions. You can edit, rename, copy, delete, reorder, or import/export
actions in the Manage Actions dialog box.
In the Manage Actions dialog box, do any of the following:
Select the action you want to edit and click Edit. Click Save after the modification, and then
close the Manage Actions dialog box.
Select the action you want to rename and click Rename. Update the name and the description
for the action, and click OK. Then close the Manage Actions dialog box.
Select the action you want to copy and click Copy. Type the name and the description for the
action, and then click OK. The new copy of the selected action will appear in the actions list.
Then close the Manage Actions dialog box.
Select the action you want to delete, click Remove. Then close the Manage Actions dialog
box.
Select the action you want to move and click Move Up/Down to reorder the action. Then
close the Manage Actions dialog box.
Select the action you want to export and click Export. In the Save As dialog box, specify the
name and the location, and then click Save. Then close the Manage Actions dialog box.
Click Import, choose the action in the Open dialog box, and click Open. The imported action
will appear in the actions list. Then close the Manage Actions dialog box.
Work with Video & Audio
Foxit PhantomPDF not only supports playing videos and audios in PDFs, but also allows users to
add and edit multimedia files to a PDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
100
Play a Movie or a Sound Clip
Some PDF files may be multifaceted with multimedia, including sound, music, and video clips. Each
movie and sound file usually includes a play area from which the media can be activated. The play
area typically appears on the PDF page as an image or a blank rectangle, but can also be invisible.
To play the media files, please make sure you have the necessary media player installed on your
computer.
To play a movie or a sound, please do the following:
Select the Hand command , and click the play area of the movie or sound file.
Note: To protect your computer from viruses, Foxit PhantomPDF pops up a dialog box soliciting your
approval before playing multimedia files. If you trust the document and the media source, check
the options: Disable Safe Reading Mode and play media and Add current file to privileged
locations.
Adding a movie or a sound clip
Adding movies or sounds to PDFs is as easy as inserting an image. "Movies" are desktop video files
with formats such as FLV, AVI, QuickTime, and MPEG, and file extensions such
as .avi, .wmv, .mov, .qt, .mpg, and .mpeg. An animated GIF file always has a .gif file extension, while
“Sounds” are like midis, wavs, and mp3 files.
Note: If an alert message tells you that no media handler is available, you must install the
appropriate player before you can add clips to the PDF. For example, you must install QuickTime if
you want to embed an MOV file in a PDF.
Adding movies or sounds
1. Choose Edit > Insert > Video & Audio .
2. Press and hold mouse button down, drag to select an area on the page where you want the
movie or sound to appear. For movies, the play area is the exact size of the movie frame.
3. In the pop-up Add Video & Audio dialog box, you will see some options listed below:
Location: click the Browse button to select the movie file you want to insert.
Content type: the type of the media you insert. It is selected automatically. But you can
also specify the clip type if you want. Please note that changing the Content Type setting
may cause problems playing the media.
Embed content in document: includes the media file into the PDF file. This option will
increase the file size of the PDF. It is selected by default. If the check box is cleared, you
will not be able to play it if you open this PDF file on other computers.
Poster Settings: choose whether to display an image in the play area when the movie isn’t
playing. You can choose to use no poster, or create poster from file.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
101
Edit the play area
To move, resize, align, center or distribute a multiple clip, please refer to “Images”.
Set Video & Audio properties
In Foxit PhantomPDF, you can specify properties for the multimedia files you added, such as the
appearance of a movie’s play area, whether the movie plays once or continuously, create alternate
renditions, etc.
To set video & audio properties, please do the following:
1. Select the Video & Audio command , or the Select Annotation command .
2. Double-click the play area or right-click the play area > Properties.
3. For the Appearance tab, please refer to “Setting properties of an image”.
Note: If you select Locked on any tab, it will lock all options for this multimedia file, but not just the
options on that tab.
4. In the Settings tab, there are many options listed below:
- Annotation Title -- Type the title of the movie or sound in the Annotation Title box. This title
does not determine which media file is played.
- Alternate Text -- Type a description of the media file in the Alternate Text box.
- Renditions – Allows you to create alternate or other renditions to ensure that users can play
the movie or sound clip on their systems.
A. List Renditions for Event -- You can assign different renditions to different actions but Mouse
Up is chosen by default. Mouse Up means that when the mouse button is clicked and
released, the rendition is played.
B. Add Rendition – There’re three ways for you to choose: Use a File, Use a URL, By Copying
an Existing Rendition
C. Edit Rendition – When clicking the Edit Rendition button, the Rendition Settings dialog box
appears, which allows you to specify the playback location, and other settings to
differentiate it from other renditions.
Media Settings -- Specifies the general properties for the movie or sound clip:
- Rendition Name: Enter the name for the rendition, which will appear in the list of
renditions. (This name does not determine which media file is played.)
- Media Clip Location: Specify the clip by typing or navigating to it.
- Content Type: Will be selected automatically when you specify the clip location.
Changing the Content Type setting may cause problems playing the media.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
102
- Embed content in document: Includes the media file into the PDF file. This option will
increase the file size of the PDF. It is selected by default. If the check box is cleared,
you will not be able to play it if you open this PDF file on other computers.
- Rendition Alternate Text: Type a description of the rendition.
- Allow temp File: Specify whether writing a temp file is allowed and when. Some
media players write a temp file when they play a movie or sound clip. If you want to
prevent users from easily copying the media content in a secure document, you may
want to disallow the creation of temp files. However, selecting this setting may
prevent the movie from being played by media players that require the use of temp
files.
Playback Settings – Use this tab to determine how the movie or sound clip is played.
- Keep Player Open: Select whether you want the player to close after it plays the movie
or sound clip.
- Volume: Lets you specify how loud the movie will be played.
- Show Player Controls: Select to display a controller bar at the bottom of the play area
allowing users to stop, pause, or play the media, provided the media player supports
player controls.
- Repeat: Lets you replay a clip two or more times, or continuously.
- Player List: Click Add to specify a player and the settings that are required, preferred,
or disallowed to play the movie or sound clip. Select the name of the player and the
status. If you set the status of more than one player to Required, only one of the
required players may be used to play the rendition. If you set the status of players to
Preferred, these players are selected over nonpreferred players (but not over required
players). If you set the status of players to Disallowed, they are not used to play the
rendition.
- Add/Edit/Delete button: Allows you to add a new player, as well as edit or delete the
selected player in the Player List.
Playback Location – Determines whether a movie or sound clip is played in the PDF, remains
hidden while played (recommended for sound clips), is played in a floating window, or is
played full screen. The options for Floating Window Settings are unavailable except when
you choose Floating Window.
- Playback Location: Selects the location for playing a movie or sound clip.
- Background Color: Selects the background color for the media player.
- Show title bar: Selects to show or hide title bar when playing the media in a floating
window.
- Show control closing window: Selects to show or hide the close button at the top
right corner in a floating window.
- Title Text: Adds a title for the media that will be showed on the title bar when playing
the media in a floating window.
- Resize: Determines to allow or forbid users to resize the floating window. There’re
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
103
three options for you to choose: Don’t allow user to resize window, Allow user to
resize window but maintain original aspect ratio, or Allow user to resize window.
- Window Position: The window position is determined relative to the document
window, application window, the virtual desktop or document monitor.
- Width/Height: Specifies the width and height of the floating window.
- If Window is Off-screen: Selects to play, do not play, or move window onto screen to
play the media file if the floating window is off-screen.
Use current playback settings as default for this type of media: Set your settings as the
new default for all the multimedia files you create in future.
D. Delete Renditions – Deletes the selected renditions.
E. Up/Down – Arranges the order of the renditions. If the first rendition cannot be played, the
next available rendition is played.
5. Actions tab for the Video & Audio properties
Please refer to “Actions tab for the button properties”.
Find and Replace Text
The Replace function allows you to quickly update text that occurs multiple times in the document.
PhantomPDF will find the next occurrence of your specified text and replace it with your new text.
1. On the Edit tab, choose Replace. Or click the Search button on the menu bar and
choose Replace in the dropdown list. Or press Ctrl + T on your keyboard.
2. The Replace panel appears on the right side of application window.
3. Type the text that you want to find and replace in the Initial Text box, and the replacement
text in the Replace With box. Only text objects in the document will be found, not including
text in a bookmark, a comment, or form data.
4. There are two options:
Whole Words Only: When selected, only instances that match the complete words specified
in the Initial Text box will be found.
Case Sensitive: When selected, only instances that match the capitalization of the string
specified in the Initial Text box will be found.
5. Choose Find Previous and Find Next to locate the instance you need to replace, and click
Replace to replace it with the replacement text.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
104
Paragraph Editing
With the Edit Text command , you can edit texts in a paragraph like Microsoft Office Word as
well as changing their font, font size and color.
To edit texts in a paragraph, please do the following:
Select Edit > Edit Content > Edit Text . (Tip: You can also right-click the selected text with
the Select Text command and choose Edit Text to start editing text in the paragraph quickly.)
Click on the desired paragraph to start editing. Foxit PhantomPDF will automatically change a
line when the text comes to the margin of it. You can also start a new line by pressing Enter.
See also the tutorial on Edit PDF.
You can set the font and paragraph in the Edit > Font/Paragraph. More editing features please
refer to Edit Objects.
Note: Clicking on a scanned or image-based PDF with Edit Text command, you’ll be prompted to
run OCR or convert this file to other format. To not show the prompted message again, you can go
to File > Preference > Editing > uncheck the option “Alert when there’s no editable text when using
‘Edit Text’ tool”.
Objects
When reading a PDF, you may need to frequently edit text, image, or other objects in this PDF file.
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can add, edit, modify, join and split objects.
Add New Objects
You can add or insert new text, image or shape objects into a PDF using respective commands in
Edit tab.
Add new text objects
To add text objects, please do the following:
Select Edit > Edit Content > Add Text .
Click on the specific page you want to input the text and type new text in the position where
the cursor is blinking. You can also paste or delete the text you input.
You can choose the text font format as you want in the Font group. In the Paragraph group,
you can also align the text and set other paragraph formats including word spacing, character
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
105
scale, line spacing, etc.
Add new image objects (Business Edition Only)
To add image objects, please do one of the following:
To add a self-created image or embed an image from the clipboard, locate the page where
you want to insert the image in the document, and choose Edit > Edit Content > Add Images
> Draw New Image . Add New Image dialog box pops up as below. You may specify
the parameters and click OK. Then you are switched to the Image Editor window.
A. In the IMAGE tab, draw your image from scratch. Or click Paste button in the toolbar to
insert an image from the clipboard and then edit the image. Click Save as Image to save the
image content in the window as an image file. Click Copy to copy the image content which
can be pasted to a PDF document.
B. To draw or edit image, you can use the commands on the toolbar and the Image Editor
Function Panel at the right side of the window. For more information on the Image Editor,
please refer to “About the Image Editor”.
C. Click Apply Changes button to save the changes and exit the Image Editor. Or click
Exit Image Editor button to exit ignoring the changes on the image and to go back to the
Document window. After the image is successfully inserted, you can resize the image and drag
it to any place you want.
To add an image from file, locate the page where you want to insert the image in your
document, and choose Edit > Edit Content > Add Images > Image Object From File .
Choose the target image file in the Open dialog box and click Open. Then the image will be
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
106
added to the document. You can double-click the image, or right-click the image and choose
Edit Object, to open the Image Editor and edit the image with the commands in the IMAGE
tab. How to edit image objects, please refer to “To Add a Self-created Image”.
Add new shape objects (Business Edition Only)
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can also directly insert path and shading objects like rectangles, curve,
straight line, etc. into your PDF as well as text objects and image objects. Shading objects are
generally used to make shadows or nice backgrounds.
Add a path object
Add a shading object
Add a path object
To add a path object, please do the following:
Locate the page where you want to insert the path in the document, and choose Edit >
Edit Content > Add Shapes > Add Path > choose one path you need. The cursor
changes into a cross . Click and drag the cursor to draw the path you want. Then the
Format tab and the Arrange tab will appear in the ribbon for you to modify the path with
the commands.
When you are drawing a path, it stays selected until you click elsewhere on the page and
a wireframe with sizing handles appears to let you adjust the size and shape.
Note: Sizing handles are the small circles or squares that appear at the corners and sides of a
selected object. You drag these handles to change the size of the object.
When drawing a path, you can press the Ctrl + Z or Ctrl+ Y to undo or redo your operation.
After creating the path you intended, click anywhere outside the path.
A B C D E F G H I
A. The Line command B. The Rectangle command C. The Round Rectangle command D.
The Ellipse command E. The Polyline command F. The Polygon command G. The Bezier
command H. The Close Bezier command I. The Free Paint command
To draw a straight line
1. Choose the Line command .
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
107
2. Click a region in the document where you want to create the drawing and draw the line.
3. Drag the handles to adjust the line size if necessary.
4. Click outside the path when you are done to set the line.
To draw a rectangle
1. Choose the Rectangle command to create a square-cornered path, or click the Rounded
Rectangle command to create a round-cornered path.
2. Click a region in the document where you want to create the drawing and draw a rectangle.
3. Drag the sizing handle diagonally in the direction you want.
To draw an ellipse
1. Choose the Ellipse command .
2. Drag the pointer to draw an ellipse, or draw a circle with Shift.
3. Click outside the path when you are done to set the ellipse.
To draw a polygon, polyline, Bezier, or Close Bezier
1. Choose the Polygon command , Polyline command , Bezier command or Close
Bezier command .
2. Drag the pointer to draw a straight line.
3. Click once at each position where you want a new line segment to appear.
4. Click outside the path when you are done to set the path.
To draw a custom path
1. Choose the Free Paint command .
2. Draw a path you want by dragging the pointer.
3. Click outside the path when you are done to set the path.
Add a shading object
To add a shading object, please do the following:
Locate the page where you want to insert the shading in your PDF document, and choose
Edit > Edit Content > Add Shapes > Add Shading > choose the shading you need. The
cursor changes into a cross . Click and drag the cursor to draw the shading you want.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
108
The Format tab and the Arrange tab will appear in the ribbon for you to modify the shading
with the commands.
When you are adding a shading (See also Drawing a path), it stays selected until you click
elsewhere on the page and a wireframe with sizing handles appears to let you adjust the
size and shape.
In the FORMAT tab, you can choose a shading style to preset different shading colors and do any
of the following to move the colors and change the shading effect:
1) Opacity: Drag the slider to change the opacity.
2) Gradient Stops: Describes the location and color of a transition point in a gradient. After
choosing a shading style, you can also edit the shading color, like add new colors, delete existing
colors, etc.
Move colors
Each color can be moved by clicking and dragging the slider .
Change colors to a shading
Double-click one color you want to change, select the color you like in the Color dialog
box and click OK.
Add colors to a shading
Select one color you like and click between any two sliders underneath the preview bar.
There will be new colors added to the shading.
Delete colors to a shading
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
109
Click the slider of the color you want to delete, and click Delete button . Also,
you can move it away from the preview bar. The color will be removed from shading.
3) Reference Line: A line along which the field of shading varies between the start and end
coordinates and from which the field of shading extends infinitely away. The start and end point
are shown, connected by a line. The transition from one color to another varies linearly along the
line. The color gradient begins at the start point and finishes at the end point.
You can drag either start or end point to move it individually, or drag the line to move them
both at the same time. This movement will change the shading effect. Compared with
Shading 1, Shading 2 is dragging the start point to move, Shading 3 is dragging the end
point to move, and Shading 4 is dragging the line to move.
Shading 1 Shading 2 Shading 3 Shading 4
Link and Join Text Objects
To make editing easier, Foxit PhantomPDF supports linking multiple text blocks together or
connecting separate text blocks into one single paragraph.
Link and Unlink Text Objects
Using the Link command, you can link multiple text blocks together and then editing text in these
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
110
blocks will be treated as editing one paragraph. You can link text blocks not only in one page but
also across pages. Text will reflow in these linked blocks and will not cover the page contents that
are located among these blocks.
To link text blocks, please do the following:
Click Edit > Edit Content > Link & Join Text and a Format tab appears in the ribbon. Select text
blocks you need to link together and the selected blocks will be marked with numbers as you
click them.
Click the Link command in the Format tab, or right-click the selected blocks and choose
Link Text Boxes. Then the three blocks will be linked together.
Then when you add or edit text in these blocks with the Edit Text command , the text
will reflow in these linked blocks and will not cover the image among them. And when the
text added exceeds the final block, content followed the linked blocks will be covered because
they have not been linked together.
To unlink a text block, please click Edit > Edit Content > Link & Join Text, select the text block you
need to unlink and then click the Unlink command in the FORMAT tab. You can also right-
click the selected block and choose Unlink Text Blocks.
Note:
You can select and link text blocks which are discontinuous or in different columns, or that are not
arranged from top to bottom or from left to right on the page.
Join and Split Text Objects
With the Join command, you can connect blocks of text into one single paragraph in a block to
improve text reflow. Blocks of text may be joined together when you need to join text as one object.
Otherwise, a block of text can be divided up into several parts with the Split command.
To join text blocks, do the following:
1. Click Edit > Edit Content > Link & Join Text button.
2. Click the text blocks you want to join. The text blocks you selected will be numbered.
3. Click the Join command in the FORMAT tab, or right-click the selected blocks and select
Join Text Boxes. Then the selected blocks will be joined together as one block.
To split a text block, please click Edit > Edit Content > Link & Join Text button and click the text
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
111
block you want to split. Click the Split command in the FORMAT tab, or right-click the selected
block and select Split Text Boxes. Then the selected block will be divided.
Note: All selected blocks should be on the same page.
See also the tutorial on Advanced Text Editing.
Edit Objects
You can freely edit any selected object(s) by the related commands.
Edit Text Objects
To edit text objects, click Edit > Edit Content > Edit Object > Text. And click on the text you
want to edit. A selected object usually is outlined by a bounding box. Double-click the box or
choose Edit in the context menu. Then the cursor will be blinking, and you can add, paste or replace
text only if the font used for that text is installed on your system. More editing information, please
refer to “Add New Text Objects”.
Merge and Split Text Objects (Business Edition Only)
You can also merge and split text objects by using Merge Text tool and Split Text tool. To remove
the space between the letters of words to improve the appearance of text content, you can click
Edit > Split > Merge Text > Remove Kerning .
To merge text objects, Shift-click the objects with the Edit Object command and click Edit > Split >
Merge Text . To split a text object, please do the following:
- Select the object and click Edit > Split > Split Text . The Split Text dialog box pops up.
- Drag the slider and click the position you want to split. Click OK and the text object will split
into parts.
Convert Text Objects to Shape Objects (Business Edition Only)
Foxit PhantomPDF supports to convert the selected text object(s) into path(s), which will meet the
pre-press requirement. For those computers that do not support or display certain embedded
fonts, this new feature helps to overcome that issue. To convert text objects to paths, please do
the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
112
- Select the text objects that you want to convert to paths.
- Select the Convert to Shape button to convert.
Edit Image and Shape Objects (Business Edition Only)
To edit image objects, click Edit > Edit Content > Edit Object > Image. Double-click an image
or choose Edit Object in its context menu. Your current main window is switched to the Image
Editor window. For further information about editing image objects, please refer to “Add New
Image Objects”.
To edit shape/shading objects, click Edit > Edit Content > Edit Object > Shape/Shading. Click
a shape/shading and edit it with the commands in FORMAT/ARRANGE tab. Further information
about editing shape/shading objects, please refer to “Add New Shape Objects”.
Tip: When editing text, image, shape and shading objects together, you can edit all the objects by
choosing Edit > Edit Content > Edit Object > All.
Reflow Editing
The commands Edit Text and Edit Object can only allow you to edit text in one text block in one
page. To edit text in a continuous mode like Word, you can use the Reflow Editing command. When
you are in reflow editing mode, text will reflow automatically in pages in the document as you add
or edit text content.
To edit PDF with the Reflow Editing command,
1. Choose Edit > Edit Content > Reflow Editing, and a dialog box pops up to inform you about the
benefits and notes about the reflow editing mode. Click Continue if you need to edit content
in the Reflow Editing mode.
2. The Reflow Editing tab appears in the ribbon, allowing you to edit text format and paragraph
styles.
3. When you complete editing, click Apply Changes to save the changes, or click Exit Reflow
Editing to exit the Reflow Editing mode without applying any change.
Modify, Arrange and Delete Objects
A selected object is usually outlined by a bounding box. And the corresponding FORMAT or
ARRANGE tab in the ribbon will appear after you select objects. With the commands in FORMAT
or ARRANGE tab, you can modify and arrange objects.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
113
Select Edit > Edit Content > Edit Object > select All/Text/Image/Shape/Shading, and do one
of the following:
1. To select one or multiple objects, please do one of the following:
Click the object to select it, or press Ctrl/Shift and select more objects.
Hold the pointer over the objects and drag a rectangle around them.
Press Ctrl + A on keyboard. All objects on the current page are selected.
Note: To deselect all the objects, click any blank area in the document.
2. Move and resize an object
To move an object, select the object and drag the object to the desired place. Or right-
click the object and choose Cut from the context menu and then right-click the desired
place and choose Paste.
To resize an object, drag a handle of the object. Drag the handles of the four corners to
retain the original aspect ratio.
3. Rotate an object
To rotate an object, put the cursor over the selected object, the cursor will change to , then do
one of the following:
In ARRANGE tab, click Rotate group > Rotate > Clockwise/Counter-clockwise by
90 degrees.
Click and drag to rotate the image as you need.
Right-click the selected and choose Rotate.
4. Shear an object (Business Edition Only)
To shear an object, select the object and do the following:
Click Edit > Effect > Shear (or click Effect > Shear in FORMAT tab when shearing a
shape/shading object), or right-click the object and choose Shear in the context menu. Enter a
value in the pop-up dialog box to shear the object and click OK to finish.
5. Arrange objects
After selecting multiple objects, you can arrange them in the documents. In the ARRANGE tab you
can align, page-center or distribute objects. Or choose Align/ Center/ Distribute after right-clicking
one of the selected objects. (See also “Align Images”, “Center Images” and “Distribute Images”.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
114
6. Clip an object (Business Edition Only)
Select the object and click Edit > Effect > Clipping (or click Effect > Clipping in
the FORMAT tab when clipping a shape/shading object), or right-click the object and
choose Add clip path in the context menu. Choose one clipping shape in the drop-down
list.
Click on the object and it will turn to the clipping mode where the selected object will be
enlarged and the cursor changes to a cross . Drag the cursor to draw a clipping shape.
The cursor then changes to . You can adjust the shape’s position by dragging the
cursor to move.
Drag the dots of the clipping shape in the direction you want until the clipping shape
displays the results you want.
(Optional) You can choose other clipping shapes to do further clipping on the object if
needed.
(Optional) To delete clipping shapes, click Edit > Effect > Clipping > Edit Clipping (or
click Effect > Clipping > Edit Clipping in FORMAT tab), select one clipping shape and
press Del or right-click the clipping shape and select Delete. To remove all clipping shapes,
please click Edit > Effect > Clipping > Clear Clipping (or click Effect > Clipping >
Clear Clipping in FORMAT tab).
Click on the area outside the objects to exit the clipping mode.
7. Move an object in front or behind other elements
Select an object and click Z-order > Send to Back or Bring to Front in the ARRANGE
tab to send it to the front or back of the other elements on the page.
8. Delete an object
Select one or more objects, press the Delete key or right-click and choose Delete from
the context menu.
Object Properties
When you right-click an object or multiple objects with the same type, and choose Properties…,
you can view and change the options in it.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
115
Set objects properties
1. With the Edit Object command, right-click text objects, images objects, shape objects (or path
objects) and shading objects, and choose Properties....
2. There are General tab and Appearance tab in the properties dialog box. The general tab is as
below: (Take image objects properties for example.)
You can specify a number of properties that are common to all objects in the General
properties.
- Position X and Y: Allow you to set the precise horizontal and vertical position of the
objects.
- Width and Height: Displays the selected object’s width and height values.
3. In Image Object Properties dialog box, in the Appearance tab, drag the slider or enter a value
to specify the opacity of the image object. Opacity can range from 1% to 100%. For
transparent paint or a weak effect, specify a low percentage value; for more opaque paint or
a strong effect, specify a high value.
4. In shape object properties dialog box, please do any of the following:
Stroke Color: The stroke color is used to paint the border of paths and text that are
stroked.
Fill Color: The fill color is used to paint the interior of paths and text characters that are
filled.
Line Width: The line width specifies the thickness of the line used to stroke a path and is
measured in user space units. A line width of 0 specifies the thinnest line that can be
rendered on the output device. The default value is 1.
Note: A line width of 0 is an inherently device-dependent value. Its use is discouraged
because the line may be nearly invisible when printing on high-resolution devices.
Miter limit: When two line segments meet at a sharp angle it is called a Miter join and
has been specified as the line join style. It is possible for the miter to extend far beyond
the thickness of the line stroking the path. The miter limit imposes a maximum on the
ratio of the miter length to the line width, as shown in the following figure. When the
limit is exceeded, the join is converted from a miter to a bevel.
The value for miter limit is a number that must be greater than or equal to 1, and has a
default value of 10.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
116
Miter length
Line Join Style: The line join style specifies the shape to be used at the corners of paths
that are stroked. The allowed values are Miter joins, Round joins and Bevel joins.
Miter — the outer edges of the strokes for the two segments are continued until
they meet. If the extension projects too far, as determined by the miter limit, a bevel
join is used instead.
Round — a circular arc with a diameter equal to the line width is drawn around the
point where the segments meet and filled in, producing a rounded corner.
Bevel — the two path segments are drawn with butt end caps (see the discussion
of line cap style), and the resulting notch beyond the ends of the segments is filled
in with a triangle.
Miter Round Bevel
Square line cap style Round line cap style Flat line cap style
Line Cap Style: The line cap style specifies the shape to be used at the ends of open sub
paths when they are stroked. Allowed values are Butt end caps, Round end caps, and
Projecting Square End.
Square: --- the stroke is squared off at the endpoint of the path.
Round: --- a semicircular arc with a diameter equal to the line width is drawn
around the endpoint and filled in.
Flat: --- the stroke extends beyond the end of the line by a distance that is half the
line width and is squared off.
Square Round Flat
Dash: Select a type of line, dashed or solid.
Opacity: Enter a value, or drag the slider to specify the opacity. Opacity can range from
1% to 100%. For transparent paint or a weak effect, specify a low percentage value; for
more opaque paint or a strong effect, specify a high value.
5. In text object properties dialog box, please do any of the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
117
Font Name– Changes the font used by the selected text to the font you specify.
Font Size – changes the font size to the size that you specify.
Horizontal Scaling – adjusts the width of characters by stretching or shrinking them in the
horizontal direction. The scaling is specified as a percent of normal width of the characters,
with 100 being the normal width. The scaling always applies to the x coordinate. The
following figure shows the effect of horizontal scaling.
Text Mode – determines whether text is stroked or filled. There are four types of text modes:
Fill Text, Stroke text, Fill then stroke text, and Text with no fill and no stroke.
1 2 3 4
1. Fill text 2. Stroke text 3. Fill then stroke text 4. Text with no fill and no stroke
Character Space – inserts uniform spacing between two or more characters in selected text.
Word Space – inserts uniform spacing between two or more words in selected text.
For stroke color, fill color, and opacity; please refer to Path Object Properties.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
118
About the Image Editor (Business Edition Only)
Image Editor is an image-editing program that includes various commands and the function panel.
The Tools group
You can select a command by clicking its icon in the Tools group in IMAGE EDITOR. Positioning the
pointer over a command will display a tool tip with the command’s name. There are selecting
commands and painting commands.
The Selecting tools
The Selecting tools include the Rectangular Marquee command, the Magic Wand command, the
lasso commands (the Lasso command and the Polygonal Lasso command), etc. To see how to use
these commands, please follow the steps as below.
The Rectangular Marquee command:
Select the rectangle command from the Tools group.
Drag over the area you want to select.
The Magic Wand command:
Select the magic wand command .
In the Image Editor Function Panel, drag the slider to specify the Tolerance, or enter a
value ranging from 0 to 255.
To select only adjacent areas using the same colors, select Contiguous. Otherwise, all
pixels using the same colors will be selected.
In the image, click the color you want to select. If Contiguous is selected, all adjacent
pixels within the tolerance range are selected. Otherwise, all pixels in the tolerance range
are selected.
Tip: The magic wand command lets you select a consistently colored area without having to trace
its outline. You can specify the tolerance for the magic wand command’s selection.
The Lasso commands:
The Lasso command:
- Select the lasso command from the Tools group.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
119
- Drag to draw a freehand selection border.
The Polygonal Lasso command:
- Select the lasso command from the Tools group.
- Click in the image to set the starting point.
- Double click the image to close the selection.
Cutting, copying, and pasting selections:
- Select the area you want to cut /copy.
- Choose the Cut Out command or the Copy command from the Clipboard
tab.
- Paste the selection into the same image or another application.
The Painting tools
The Painting tools include the Eyedropper command, the Brush command, the Paint Bucket
command, the Dodge command, the Burn command and the Eraser command, etc. These
commands are generally used in combination with the options in the Image Editor Function Panel.
1. Setting options for painting
You can set options for a painting tool in the Function Panel.
Selecting a blending mode
The blending mode controls how pixels in the image are affected by a painting or editing tool.
To select a blending mode for a tool, choose from the Mode drop-down menu.
Normal
Edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color. This is the default mode.
Color Burn
Looks at the color information in each channel and darkens the base color to reflect the
blend color by increasing the contrast. Blending with white produces no change.
Color Dodge
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
120
Looks at the color information in each channel and brightens the base color to reflect the
blend color by decreasing the contrast. Blending with black produces no change.
Darken
Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color--
whichever is darker--as the result color. Pixels lighter than the blend color are replaced, and
pixels darker than the blend color do not change.
Difference
Looks at the color information in each channel and subtracts either the blend color from the
base color or the base color from the blend color, depending on which has the greater
brightness value. Blending with white inverts the base color values; blending with black
produces no change.
Exclusion
Creates an effect similar to but lower in contrast than the Difference mode. Blending with
white inverts the base color values. Blending with black produces no change.
Hard Light
Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the blend color. The effect is similar to
shining a harsh spotlight on the image.
Lighten
Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color--
whichever is lighter--as the result color. Pixels darker than the blend color are replaced, and
pixels lighter than the blend color do not change.
Hard Mix
The result of Hard Mix is either 0 or 255 for each channel. If the sum of upper layer value
and lower layer value is greater than 255, then it is 255, otherwise the result will be 0. This
mode is useful for color enhancement or special effects. See the Example shown below:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
121
Linear Dark/Light
Burns or dodges the colors by decreasing or increasing the brightness, depending on the
blend color. If the blend color (light source) is lighter than 50% gray, the image is lightened
by increasing the brightness. If the blend color is darker than 50% gray, the image is
darkened by decreasing the brightness.
Multiply
Looks at the color information in each channel and multiplies the base color by the blend
color. The result color is always a darker color. Multiplying any color with black produces
black. Multiplying any color with white leaves the color unchanged. When you're painting
with a color other than black or white, successive strokes with a painting tool produce
progressively darker colors. The effect is similar to drawing on the image with multiple
magic markers.
Overlay
Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the base color. Patterns or colors overlay the
existing pixels while preserving the highlights and shadows of the base color. The base color
is not replaced but is mixed with the blend color to reflect the lightness or darkness of the
original color.
Pin Light
Replaces the colors, depending on the blend color. If the blend color (light source) is lighter
than 50% gray, pixels darker than the blend color are replaced, and pixels lighter than the
blend color do not change. If the blend color is darker than 50% gray, pixels lighter than the
blend color are replaced, and pixels darker than the blend color do not change. This is useful
for adding special effects to an image.
Screen
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
122
Looks at each channel's color information and multiplies the inverse of the blend and base
colors. The result color is always a lighter color. Screening with black leaves the color
unchanged. Screening with white produces white. The effect is similar to projecting multiple
photographic slides on top of each other.
Soft Light
Darkens or lightens the colors, depending on the blend color. The effect is similar to shining
a diffused spotlight on the image.
Specifying opacity or flow
You can specify opacity or flow in the Function Panel for the following tools:
- Opacity specifies the maximum amount of paint coverage applied by the brush, clone
stamp, and paint bucket tools.
- Flow specifies how quickly paint is applied by the brush tool.
To specify opacity or flow
Enter a value, or drag the slider for Opacity or Flow in the Function Panel.
Opacity or flow can range from 1% to 100%. For transparent paint or a weak effect, specify a low
percentage value; for more opaque paint or a strong effect, specify a high value.
2. Using the Eyedropper command
The eyedropper command samples color to designate a new foreground or background color. You
can sample from the active image. You can also specify the area sampled by the eyedropper
command. For example, you can set the eyedropper to sample the color values of a 3-by-3-pixel
area under the pointer.
To sample color with the eyedropper command:
- Select the eyedropper command from the Tools tab.
- In the Pipette palette of Function Panel, choose an option from the Sample Size menu.
Note: 3 by 3 Average or 5 by 5 Average to read the average value of the specified number of
pixels within the area you click.
- Click the area containing the color you want to copy.
3. Using the Brush command
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
123
Image Editor provides the brush command to let you paint with the current foreground color.
- Select the Brush command from the Tools tab.
- Do one of the following:
Click the triangle , and set brush options: Diameter to control the size of the brush.
Hardness to control the size of the brush's hard center.
Specify a blending mode (See “Selecting a blending mode”)
Specify an opacity and a flow rate (See “Specifying opacity or flow”)
- Drag the image to paint.
4. Using the Paint Bucket command
The paint bucket command fills adjacent pixels that are similar in color value to the pixels you click.
- Select the paint bucket command from the Tools tab.
- Do one of the following in the Function Panel:
Specify a blending mode (See “Selecting a blending mode”)
Specify an opacity (See “Specifying opacity or flow”)
Specify a tolerance
Note: The tolerance defines how similar in color a pixel must be to be filled. Values can range
from 0 to 255. A low tolerance fills pixels within a range of color values very similar to the pixel
you click. A high tolerance fills pixels within a broader range.
- Click the part of the image you want to fill.
5. Using the Dodge command
The dodge command is used to lighten areas of the image.
To use the dodge command:
- Select the dodge command .
- Do the following in the Function Panel:
Set brush options: Diameter to control the size of the brush. (See “Using the brush
command”)
Select what to change in the image: Shadows to change the dark areas; Highlights to
change the light areas.
- Drag over the part of the image you want to modify.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
124
6. Using the Burn command
The burn command is used to darken areas of the image.
To use the burn command:
- Select the burn command .
- Do the following in the Function Panel:
Set brush options: Diameter to control the size of the brush. Hardness to control the
size of the brush's hard center (See “Using the brush command”).
Select what to change in the image: Shadows to change the dark areas; Highlights to
change the light areas.
- Drag over the part of the image you want to modify.
7. Using the Eraser command
- Select the Eraser command from the Tools tab.
- Do one of the following in the Function Panel:
Specify opacity and a flow rate (See “Specifying opacity or flow”).
- Drag the pointer over the area you want to erase.
8. Using the Spot Healing Brush command
The spot healing brush command effortlessly removes dust, scratches, blemishes, and other flaws
and automatically preserves the shading, lighting, and texture of the original image.
To use the healing brush command:
- Select the spot healing brush command .
- Do the following in the Function Panel:
Specify the diameter option to control the size of the brush.
Specify the roundness option to control the ratio between the brush's short and long
axes.
- Press down Ctrl key and click an area to define a source to repair.
9. Using the Clone Stamp command
The clone stamp command takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply over another
image or part of the same image. Each stroke of the tool paints on more of the sample.
To use the clone stamp command:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
125
- Select the clone stamp command .
- Do one of the following in the Function Panel:
Set brush options: Diameter to control the size of the brush. Hardness to control the size
of the brush's hard center (See “Using the brush command”).
Specify a blending mode (See “Selecting a blending mode”)
Specify opacity and a flow rate (See “Specifying opacity or flow”).
Aline: If selected, the position of the source remains fixed relative to the spot where your
first brush stroke was, and each brush stroke you paint is cloning an area of the image
that is the same distance and direction from the start of the previous stroke; if deselected,
every new brush stroke will return to initial clone source spot, and you are making a new
copy of your image with each brush stroke.
- Press down Ctrl key and click an area to define a resource. Then move the cursor to copy the
located image.
10. Choosing foreground and background colors
You can use the Levels palette to select the foreground or background color by choosing from a
color spectrum or by defining colors numerically.
You can designate a new foreground or background color using the eyedropper command (See
“Using the eyedropper command”) and the Levels palette.
The default foreground color is black, and the default background color is white.
Levels palette:
The Levels palette displays the color values for the current foreground and background colors.
Entering the value in the Levels palette or clicking the arrows to increase or decrease the
value, you can edit the foreground and background colors according to several different color
models.
Note: Image Editor uses RGB mode to work with images.
11. Using the Layer palette
The Layers palette lets you set layer opacity, fill layers and choose a blending mode.
Setting layer opacity
A layer's opacity determines to what degree it obscures or reveals the layer beneath it. A layer
with 1% opacity appears nearly transparent, while one with 100% opacity appears completely
opaque.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
126
To specify opacity for a layer
1. Select a layer or layer set in the Layers palette.
2. In the Layer palette, enter a value in the Opacity text box or drag the Opacity slider.
12. Hiding/Displaying the Function Panel
To hide/display the Function Panel, please select Hide Function Panel button , or Show
Function Panel button .
The Filter group
Using filters, please select an item from the Filter tab to add an effect to the image. Move the
cursor over one type of filter to preview how the image will look after adding the filter. The filter
will be applied only when you click it. And the image with the applied filter will be the original one
to be added another filter later if any. To undo the application, you can click Undo button on
the Quick Access toolbar.
Flipping and Replacing Images
Flipping tools are to flip images horizontally or vertically. And you can also replace the original
image with other images with the Replace command .
To flip images, please do one of the following:
- In the Toolbox, click or to flip the entire image horizontally or vertically.
- To flip the image you select, click the Rectangle command or the Lasso command to select an
area, and click the Flip command or .
To replace images, please do the following:
1. On the Images tab, click Replace button .
2. In the pop-up Open dialog box, search the image file you want and click Open button.
Note: Only BMP, PCX, TIF, and JPEG format file can be opened.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
127
3. You get a confirmation message asking you if you want to continue to replace the current
active image. If yes, click the Ok button to finish.
Note: The replaced image will never be recovered.
Spelling Check
Foxit PhantomPDF allows users to check the spelling of PDF files and provides suggestions to
correct misspelled words. This feature is useful when users want to proofread text. You can check
for possible mistakes and then confirm each correction.
By default, PhantomPDF automatically checks the spelling when you edit text or use the typewriter
tools. You can disable the automatic spelling check by unchecking Enable spell check from File >
Preferences > Spelling.
To check spelling within an entire document, please do the following:
Click Edit > Edit Content > Check Spelling button .
In the pop-up Check Spelling dialog box, you will see the suspect word and suggestions for
correction.
Ignore – Click Ignore if no correction is needed.
Ignore All – Click Ignore All to skip all further occurrences of the current “misspelling”.
Change – Click Change after selecting one suggestion to make the suggested correction.
Add To Dictionary – Click Add to Dictionary if the suspect word is spelled correctly but doesn’t
appear in Foxit PhantomPDF’s dictionary. Choosing Add to Dictionary adds the word to Foxit
PhantomPDF’s custom dictionary, which is a supplemental list of spelled-correctly words used
to proofread a document.
Cancel – Click Cancel to exit the Check Spelling dialog box.
Tip: You can add, remove, or reorder dictionaries in File > Preferences > Spelling.
Working with Layers
A layer or as it is more formally known Optional Content Groups (OCG) is a dictionary representing
a collection of graphics that can be made visible or invisible dynamically by users of viewer
applications. In a PDF file, each layer may hold any portion of the document's objects, and layers
may be made visible or invisible, showing or hiding their contained objects, in any combination.
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can control the display of PDF layers with the Layers panel. For
example, you may divide background imagery, main content areas, and advertisements amongst
their own top-level layers, and easily hide the layers that you don't want others to view.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
128
Show /hide PDF Layers
In a PDF, information can be stored on different layers. To show or hide related content stored in
a variable number of separate layers, you can simply refer to the Layers panel on the left side of
the work area. You can view layers and choose to show or hide the content associated with each
layer.
The Layers Panel
A. A checkmark indicates a displayed layer B. Hidden layer
1. Open the Layers panel, and then do one of the following:
To hide a layer, uncheck the layer.
To show a hidden layer, click the empty box and a checkmark will appear.
2. From the Options menu at the top right corner of the Layers panel, choose one of the following:
List Layers for All Pages – Shows every layer across every page of the document.
List Layers for Visible Pages – Shows layers only on the visible pages.
Reset to Initial Visibility – Resets layers to their default state.
Expand All – Expands all layers.
Collapse All – Collapses all of the current layers in the view.
Apply Print Overrides – Determines whether to display a layer according to its
corresponding Print setting in the Layer Properties dialog box. The option is available when
Never Prints or Always Print is selected.
Apply Export Overrides – Determines whether to display a layer according to its
corresponding Export setting in the Layer Properties dialog box. The option is available
when Never Exports or Always Exports is selected.
Apply Layer Overrides – Displays all layers in the document regardless of the settings in the
Layer Properties dialog box, and you cannot change layer visibility until you deselect this
command or choose Reset To Initial Visibility in the Options menu. However, you are still
allowed to rename layers when the command is selected.
A
B
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
129
Import Layers (Business Only)
You can import layers from a PDF file or import images as layers into a target PDF file.
1. In the navigation pane, click the menu button in the top right corner of the Layers panel,
and choose Import as Layer….
2. In the Import as Layer dialog box, click Browse to choose a PDF file or an image file (Formats
like BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, and TIFF, are supported.). If you import from a PDF
file, choose a page number you want to import from.
3. Import Options:
Create new layer: creates a new layer from the source file. Specify a layer name, and add it to
an existing layer group in the target document as needed.
Add to existing layer: adds the imported content to an existing layer in the target document.
The imported layer will have the same properties as the existing one. This option is available
only when the target document contains layers.
Copy layers from source: imports the layers from the source PDF file. This option is available
only when the source PDF file contains layers.
4. In the right part of the dialog box, select a target page number to import the layers to, and
preview the result.
5. Complete the settings in Position and Appearance as needed.
6. Then click OK.
Merge Layers (Business Only)
1. In the navigation pane, click the menu button in the top right corner of the Layers panel,
and choose Merge Layers….
2. In the Merge Layers dialog box, select one or more layers you want to merge and the target
layer to merge the selected layers into.
3. Then click OK.
Note: Merged layers will have the same properties of the target layer. After you merge the layers,
you cannot undo the operation.
Flatten Layers (Business Only)
1. In the navigation pane, click the menu button in the top right corner of the Layers panel,
and choose Flatten Layers.
2. A warning message pops up, telling you that the flattening operation cannot be cancelled or
undone.
3. Then click OK.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
130
Note: After the flattening operation, all layers will be consolidated, while the layers that are
originally not visible will be hidden. After you flatten the layers, you cannot undo the operation.
Delete Layers
1. In the navigation pane, select the layer you want to delete.
2. Click the menu button in the top right corner of the Layers panel, and choose Delete
Layer, or press Delete on the keyboard. Or, right-click the layer and choose Delete Layer from
the context menu.
Note: When you delete a layer, its corresponding content will be removed.
Reorder Layers
You may need to change the order of layers in the list, or move a layer from one layer group to
another. In the navigation pane, to reorder a layer, just press Alt while you click the layer’s name
and drag it to the desired location. You can undo or redo the operation.
Note: You cannot reorder locked layers or layers in nested layer groups.
Layer Properties
By editing layer properties in the Layer Properties dialog box, you can control the visibility of layers
and set whether to print or export layers. For example, you can hide a layer whenever the
document is displayed on screen, while ensuring that the layer always prints. You can view but
cannot edit the layer properties in Standard edition.
1. To open the Layer Properties dialog box, select the layer, click the Options menu and choose
Layer Properties.... Or just right-click the layer and choose Properties... to open the Layer
Properties dialog box.
2. Edit the layer name or any of the following:
Intent – selects View and the visibility and properties of the layer can be edited any time.
Or, selects Reference to keep the current visibility and setting at all times until you switch
to View.
Default State – Defines the initial visibility state when Visibility in Initial State is set to
Visible When On.
Visibility – Defines the visibility of the layer when the document is opened or when the
initial visibility is reset. If you choose Visible when on, the layer is visible only when Default
State is On.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
131
Print – Defines whether the layer will be printed when you print the PDF. If you choose Print
when visible, the layer will print only when the layer is visible.
Export – Defines whether the layer will appear in the resulting document when the PDF is
exported to an application or file format that supports layers. If you choose Export when
visible, the layer will appear in the resulting document only when the layer is visible.
The previous settings in Initial State like the states of Print, View, and Export, are shown in
the box at the bottom of the Layer Properties dialog box.
PDF Properties
To view and modify the PDF properties, please navigate to File > Properties.
Description
This tab shows some basic information about the document. The person who created the
document in the source application may have set the title, subject, author, and keywords. Click
Custom, and the pop-up Custom Properties dialog box shows some document information (such
as comments and the company name). You can easily edit the document information within the
PDF document, a useful way for searching and indexing files.
You can also customize document properties by clicking Custom. In the pop-up Custom Properties
dialog box, input the property name and the value, and then click Add to add a custom property.
To change the value of a property, select it and update the value, and then click Change. To change
the name of a custom property, you need to delete the property and create a new custom property.
To delete a property, select it and click Delete.
Initial View
When a user opens your PDF document, they see the initial view of the PDF. You can set the initial
view to the magnification level, page and page layout that you want. If your PDF is a presentation,
you may want to set the initial view to Full Screen Mode. After you define the initial view of the
PDF, you can add page transitions to selected pages of the entire document.
Define the initial view as Full Screen mode
When setting the initial view of a PDF to Full Screen mode, you must define how the document
opens.
1. Choose File > Properties.
2. In the Document Properties dialog box, select Initial View.
3. For best results, do the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
132
Choose Page Only from the Navigation tab menu.
Choose Single Page from the Page layout menu.
Set Open to page to the page on which you want to start the presentation.
4. Select Open in Full Screen mode to open the document without the menu bar or toolbar
displayed. Click OK. (You have to save and reopen the file to see the effects.)
Note: Users can exit Full Screen mode by pressing Esc if their preferences are set this way. However,
in Full Screen mode, users cannot apply commands and select tools unless they know the keyboard
shortcuts. You may set up page actions in the document to provide this functionality.
Security
This tab describes security permissions and what functionality is allowed within a PDF.
See also “Checking PDF Security”
Fonts
The Fonts tab lists the fonts and the font types used in the original document, as well as the
encoding used to display the original fonts.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
133
Chapter 6 – Organize
Foxit PhantomPDF comes with a built in functionality to combine various PDF files & split one PDF
into various small single & multiple page PDF files according to page numbers as well as page range.
You can rearrange pages and composing page outlines with the commands under the ORGANIZE
tab, which allow you to insert, move, replace and crop pages, split documents, add page marks
(such as header & footer) to PDFs, and more.
See also the tutorial on Organize PDF Documents.
Insert Pages
Foxit PhantomPDF enables you to insert pages from files (either from a page range or the entire
file), a folder, a scanner, clipboard and a blank page. You can also insert pages into multiple
documents at a time.
Insert pages from file
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to insert pages from a file or multiple files into a PDF.
To insert pages from a file or multiple files into a PDF, open the PDF and do either of the following:
- Directly drag the page thumbnails from a PDF file or files (not limited to PDFs) to the Pages
panel of navigation pane and drop at the place where you want to insert. (Tip: with a mouse
with a scroll wheel, you can press and hold Ctrl while scrolling up/down to zoom in or out the
page thumbnails in the Pages panel.) If you need to insert certain pages from a non-PDF file,
please choose the other method.
- Choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Insert > From File, or click the Insert button on the Pages
panel of navigation pane, or right-click one page thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… > From
File. In the pop-up dialog box, select the files that you want to insert into the target document,
and click Open. If the files are non-PDF files and you only want to add certain pages not the
whole files, please choose to preview first in the pop-up Foxit PhantomPDF message. Then do
the following steps to finish:
1. In the Insert Files dialog box, you can still add files, folder and open files further by clicking
Add Files… button.
2. Then choose one file you added, specify where you want to insert to the current PDF
document (at the beginning or the end, or before or after a designated), and page range (insert
from …to …) of the file that you want to insert. (Tip: If you click on a page thumbnail and press
the shortcut keys Ctrl+A, all page thumbnails will be selected.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
134
3. Check Show Preview in the lower left corner, and you can preview the target page and the
insert page in preview boxes. Click OK to insert the pages.
4. To leave the original PDF intact as a separate file, choose File > Save As, and type a new
name for the merged PDF.
Note: When a whole file is inserted, its bookmarks will be inserted at the end of the bookmarks of
the original PDF. The links of the bookmarks inserted remain unchanged. And the combined
bookmarks will be the bookmarks of the combined PDF file.
Insert pages from folder
1. Open a PDF file, and choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Insert > From Folder, or right-click one page
thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… > From Folder.
2. The Browse For Folder dialog box pops up. Select the folder that you want to insert into the
target document, and click OK. (See also “Insert pages from file”.)
Insert pages from open files
1. Open a PDF file, and choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Insert > From Open Files, or right-click one
page thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… > From Open Files.
2. (Optional) Directly drag the page thumbnails from an open PDF file and drop at the target place
of the current PDF file.
3. In the pop-up Open PDF Files dialog box, select files you want to insert and click Add Files to
continue. (See also “Insert pages from file”.)
Insert pages from a scanner
You can insert pages from a paper document using Foxit PhantomPDF and your scanner.
1. Open the PDF that you want to serve as the basis of the combined file, and choose ORGANIZE >
Pages > Insert > From Scanner, or right-click one page thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… >
From Scanner. In the pop-up From Scanner dialog box, specify the place you want to insert
pages.
2. Then select a scanner, the input and documents options in the Custom Scan dialog box, and
then click Scan.
See also “Create a PDF Using Scanner”
3. To leave the original PDF intact as a separate file, choose File > Save As, and type a new name
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
135
for the merged PDF.
Insert pages from clipboard
1. Open a PDF file, and choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Insert > From Clipboard, or right-click one
page thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… > From Clipboard.
2. In the pop-up From Clipboard dialog box, specify the place you want to insert pages. Then the
content in the clipboard will be inserted.
3. To leave the original PDF intact as a separate file, choose File > Save As, and type a new name
for the merged PDF.
Insert pages from a blank page
1. Open the PDF that you want to use as the basis of the combined file, and choose ORGANIZE >
Pages > Insert > Blank Page, or right-click a page thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… > Blank
Page.
2. In the Insert Blank Pages dialog box, specify where in the document you want to insert the
blank pages (as well as how many blank pages you want to insert), and click OK.
3. To leave the original PDF intact as a separate file, choose Save As, and type a new name for
the merged PDF.
Insert pages into files
1. Open the PDF file (i.e. source file) from which you want to choose a range of pages (i.e. source
pages) to be inserted into other files. Click ORGANIZE > Pages > Insert > Into File, or right-click
a page thumbnail and choose Insert Pages… > Into File.
2. In the pop-up Open dialog box, choose the file (i.e. target file) to which you want to insert the
source pages and click Open.
3. In the pop-up Insert Pages Into dialog box, you can add more target files by clicking Add Files….
4. Then specify the page range to be inserted and the destination in the target files.
5. Choose whether to keep the source pages in the source PDF file after inserting.
6. Click Output Options to specify the output folder and the file names.
7. Check Show Preview in the lower left corner, and you can preview the target page and the
insert page in preview boxes. Click OK to insert the pages.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
136
Rotate, Move, Swap and Delete Pages
Rotate Pages
You can rotate all or selected pages in a document.
1. Open the PDF document within which you want to rotate pages.
2. (Optional) To rotate one page, choose ORGANIZE >Transform > click Rotate Pages
> Left/Right. Rotation is based on 90° increments.
3. To rotate one or more pages, please use one of the following methods:
Choose ORGANIZE > Transform > click Rotate Pages > Multi-page rotate.
Right-click the selected page thumbnails and choose Rotate Pages.
Select multiple page thumbnails in the Pages panel and click the Rotate
Counterclockwise button and Rotate Clockwise button . Rotation is
based on 90° increments.
4. In the pop-up Rotate Pages dialog box, specify the direction you want to rotate the
pages and the page range.
5. Click OK.
Note: To temporarily change your view of the page, choose View > Page Display > Rotate
View > Rotate Left or Right. The original page orientation is restored the next time you open
the PDF.
Move Pages
The Move Pages feature allows you to move pages within a PDF document.
Move one or more pages within a PDF document
1. Open the PDF document within which you want to move pages.
2. Choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Move , or right-click the page thumbnail and choose
Move Pages….
3. In the Move Pages dialog box, specify where you want to move pages within the document,
and page range that you want to move.
4. Click OK.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
137
Note: Tagged bookmarks affect the order that reading devices follow, such as devices for the
visually impaired. Tagged bookmarks do not change the sequence of pages in a PDF.
Move one or more pages within a PDF, using page thumbnails
1. Click the Pages button to open the Pages panel, and select one or more page thumbnails.
2. To move a page, drag the page thumbnail(s) to the new location.
Swap Two Pages
The Swap feature is useful sometimes if you want to swap two different pages within a PDF
document.
1. Open the PDF document within which you want to swap pages.
2. (Optional) Directly drag and drop the page thumbnail to the target location in the Pages panel
of navigation pane.
3. Choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Swap , or right-click the page thumbnail and choose Swap
Pages….
4. In the Swap Two Pages dialog box, select or enter two different page numbers in the Swap
and For options.
5. Click OK.
Delete Pages
After combining PDF files, you can delete unwanted or blank pages.
Delete Pages using the Delete command
1. Open the PDF document where you want to delete pages.
2. Choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Delete .
3. Specify a page range and click OK to delete the selected pages.
Note: If you want to retain a copy of the original PDF, make sure that you save the new document
using Save As rather than Save.
Delete Pages using page thumbnails
1. In the Pages panel, select a page or group of pages:
Drag the mouse to select the page thumbnails.
Shift-click or Ctrl-click to select a range of page thumbnails.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
138
2. Press Delete to delete the selected pages. Or right-click the selected pages, choose “Delete
Pages…” in the context menu and click OK.
Extract, Duplicate and Replace Pages
Extract Pages
Extraction is the process of reusing selected pages of one PDF in a different PDF. Extracted pages
contain not only the content but also all form fields, comments, and links associated with the
original page content.
You can leave the extracted pages in the original document and create a new PDF that includes all
of the extracted pages during the extraction process - comparable to the familiar processes of
cutting-and-pasting or copying-and-pasting, but on the page level.
Note: Any bookmarks or article threading associated with pages are not extracted.
1. Open the PDF in Foxit PhantomPDF and choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Extract . Check
Show Preview to preview the current document in the pop-up Extract Pages dialog box.
2. (Optional) Right-click the page thumbnails that you want to extract and choose Extract
Pages… to open Extract Pages dialog box.
3. In the Extract Pages dialog box, specify the page range to be extracted. To extract even or
odd pages, the page range should include both one even page and one odd page at least.
4. Choose a type of Extract Mode and then check the following options as needed:
Immediately save extracted pages: save the extracted pages into a new PDF file after you
click OK. The saved file will not be opened in Foxit PhantomPDF automatically. If the item is
not checked, a new PDF file that includes the extracted pages will be opened without being
saved. You will have to manually save it.
Delete the pages after extraction: delete the selected pages from the original document.
5. Click OK after setting.
Note:
1. If you choose Extract pages as one PDF, the extracted pages will be placed in a new
PDF document named “Extracted pages from [original document name].pdf”.
2. If you choose Extract each page as a PDF, the Immediately save extracted pages
option is not available. You will need to choose a folder to store the generated PDFs
after clicking OK. Each extracted page will be placed in a separate PDF named
“[original document name]_1.pdf”, “[original document name]_2.pdf”, and so on.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
139
3. The creator of a PDF document can set the security to prevent the extraction of
pages. To view the security settings for a document, choose File > Properties, and
select Security tab.
Duplicate Pages
The Duplicate Pages feature allows you to copy pages within a PDF document.
1. Open the PDF document within which you want to copy pages.
2. Choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Duplicate , or right-click the page thumbnail and choose
Duplicate Pages….
3. In the Duplicate Pages dialog box, specify where you want to copy pages within the document
and the page range that you want to copy.
4. Click OK.
Tip: To duplicate pages, you can also move the page thumbnails of the page(s) you want to
duplicate while pressing and holding down the Ctrl key in the Pages panel.
Replace Pages
You can replace an entire PDF page with another PDF page. The text, images and comments on
the original page will be replaced.
To quickly update a PDF, you can replace individual pages.
1. Open the PDF that contains the pages you want to replace. Choose ORGANIZE > Pages >
Replace or right-click the page thumbnails that you want to replace and choose
Replace Pages….
2. Select the PDF document containing the replacement pages, then click Open.
3. In the pop-up Replace Pages dialog box, from the original PDF file select pages you want to
replace and select replacement pages from the selected file. You can click Browse to change
the selected file.
4. Click OK to finish.
Note: The bookmarks associated with the original pages will be unavailable after the
replacement.
Split PDFs into multiple files
The Split Document feature is a process of splitting one or more documents into multiple smaller-
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
140
size documents.
1. Open the PDF document you want to split.
2. Choose ORGANIZE > Pages > Split , or right-click on the target page thumbnails and choose
Split Document in the context menu.
3. In the Split Document dialog box enter the maximum number of pages or file size after splitting,
or choose whether to split by the top-level bookmarks if the document has bookmarks. Check
Blank Page, and the document will be split each time a blank page is encountered. Blank pages will
be discarded when splitting.
4. Click Select More Files… to split more files. Click Output Options to specify the storage location,
the file names, and other settings.
5. Click OK.
Crop Pages
The Crop Pages feature allows you to adjust the visible page area. You can create a PDF
document with pages of different sizes.
Crop one or more pages
1. Open the PDF document you want to crop.
2. Right click the target page(s) on the Pages thumbnails, choose Crop Pages.
3. In the pop-up Crop Pages dialog box, specify the settings in the Margin Control: select
CropBox, ArtBox, TrimBox, or BleedBox (they are displayed in the preview box in
black, red, green and blue respectively) and adjust the proportions to crop. You can
preview all the boxes on the right after checking the item Show All Boxes.
CropBox – Defines the content boundary of the page when it’s displayed or printed.
ArtBox – Defines the meaningful content of the page including blank space.
TrimBox – Defines the final dimensions of the page after trimming.
BleedBox – Defines the clipping path when the page is printed professionally to allow
for paper trimming and folding. Printing marks may fall outside the bleed area.
Constrain Proportions – Locks the cropped proportions and each margin will have the
same distance from each side to the border.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
141
Remove White Margins – Crops the page to the artwork boundary, which is useful for
trimming the edges of presentation slides saved as PDFs.
Set To Zero – Restores all the crop margins to zero.
Reset – Resets all the margins to the original dimensions.
4. A rectangle in the page thumbnail showed in the preview box shows the boundaries
of the cropped area.
5. Set the page size and adjust the center of the page content if needed.
6. Choose the page range you want to crop.
7. Choose the unit of the margin cropping values.
8. Click OK.
Crop one page
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Transform > Crop , the cursor will change to . Drag the
cursor to select an area you want to crop. Then double-click the area you cropped.
2. In the pop-up Crop Pages dialog box, the margin measurement indicates the size of the
area you selected. You can directly click OK or provide new settings in the dialog box.
Note: Cropping does not reduce file size because information is not discarded but merely
hidden. So you can restore the page and its content to its original dimensions by resetting
the page size.
Flatten Pages
The Flatten Pages feature can discard interactive annotations in the PDF file and make them
become part of objects of the PDF pages.
1. Open the PDF document where you want to flatten pages.
2. Choose ORGANIZE > Transform > Flatten .
3. In the Flatten Pages dialog box, specify the page range (current page, all pages, a range of
pages), and click OK.
Note: If you want to retain a copy of the original PDF, make sure that you save the new document
using Save As rather than Save.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
142
Header & Footer, Watermark & Background to PDFs
Add Header/Footer, Watermark/Background to PDFs with Text, image and PDF, making your PDFs
more professional and easy to view, navigate watermark and place marks on documents.
See also the tutorial on Professionalize Documents.
Header & Footer
To add a new header & footer, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Header &Footer > Add.
2. Edit the text of header & footer in the “Add Headers and Footers” dialogue box.
3. (Optional) Click Save Settings at the top of the dialog box to save the current settings as a
profile that can be applied directly to future documents.
4. Click OK to activate the operation.
To update the header & footer, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Header &Footer > Update.
2. Update the content in the “Update Headers and Footers” dialogue box.
3. Click OK to activate it.
To remove the header & footer, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Header &Footer > Remove.
2. Click “Yes” in the pop-up message box.
Background
To add a new background, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Background > Add.
2. Edit the background in the “Add Background” dialogue box.
Choose one color as the background, or add the file from your computer via clicking the
browse button. If the file has many pages, you can select one of them.
Set the appearance by choosing the rotation degree, the opacity. You also can choose to
make the scale relative to the target page or not. Click “Appearance Options” to set when
to display the background.
Set the vertical and horizontal distance between the target page and the background.
Choose the page range to play the background. You can select all pages or specify the
page range, or choose even pages or odd pages via clicking the right items in the subset
list.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
143
Check or uncheck the Show Preview option to preview the changes or not.
3. (Optional) Click Save Settings at the top of the dialog box to save the current settings as a
profile that can be applied directly to future documents.
4. Click OK to activate it.
To update the background, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Background > Update.
2. Update the content in the “Update Background” dialogue box.
3. Click OK to activate it.
To remove the background, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Background > Remove.
2. Click “Yes” in the pop-up message box.
Watermark
To add a new watermark, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Watermark > Add.
2. Edit the watermark in the “Add Watermark” dialogue box.
Input the text as the background and choose the font, size and the color, or add the file
from your computer via clicking the browser button. If the file has many pages, you can
select one of them.
Set the appearance by choosing the rotation degree and the opacity. You can also choose
to make the scale relative to target page or not. Click “Appearance Options” to set when
to display the watermark.
If you choose the “appear behind page”, the page content will obstruct your view
of some part of the watermark.
If you choose the “appear on the top of page”, the watermark will cover some
content, but you can adjust it via setting the opacity of the watermark.
Set the vertical and horizontal distance between the target page and the watermark.
Choose the page range to play the watermark. You can select all pages or specify the
page range, or choose even pages or odd pages via clicking the right items in the subset
list.
Check or uncheck the Show Preview option to preview the changes or not.
3. Click Save Settings at the top of the dialog box to save your current settings as a profile that
can be applied to other documents directly next time.
4. Click OK to activate it.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
144
To update the watermark, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Watermark > Update.
2. Update the content in the “Update Watermark” dialogue box.
3. Click OK to activate it.
To remove the watermark, please do the following:
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Watermark > Remove.
2. Click “Yes” in the pop-up message box.
Bates Numbering (Business Edition Only)
What’s Bates Number?
Bates numbering is used in the legal, medical, and business fields to place identifying numbers
and/or date/time-marks on images and documents. These numbers may be solely numeric or may
contain a combination of letters and numbers. It is a unique serial number attached to every page
of a document collected and is also a method of indexing legal documents for easy identification
and retrieval.
Add Bates Number
1. Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Bates Numbering > Add.
2. In the “Add Bates Numbering” dialog box, add the files, folders or opened files by clicking Add
Files, Add Folders or Add Open Files. In the files list, you can change the order by clicking
Move Up or Move Down and delete a file by clicking Remove.
3. Click Output Options. Here, you can set the target output folder, name the file and create the
log file in the dialogue box. Click OK to exit the box after completing these settings.
4. Click OK and a dialog box to add Headers and Footers will pop up for you to insert Bates
Numbering on the PDF documents.
Click Insert Bates Number…
Another dialog box will appear for setting the number of digits used, the start number,
rotate angle and the prefix/suffix, if needed. Click OK to finalize the setting.
Click OK button.
Remove Bates Number
Choose ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Bates Numbering > Remove.
Adding Format Page Numbers
If your PDF file contains front matter likes document cover and copyright page, the page numbers
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
145
on the document pages (i.e. printed page number) may not start from the document cover but
from the body pages. You may need to synchronize the page numbers displayed below the page
thumbnails (i.e. format page number) with printed page numbers. Foxit PhantomPDF enables users
to add format page numbers to meet different needs.
To add custom format page number, please do as below:
1. Click ORGANIZE > Page Marks > Format Page Numbers . Or right-click a page thumbnail
and select Format Page Numbers….
2. In the Page Numbers dialog box, specify a range of pages you want to number and set the
style of page number and the number you want to start at. You can also add a prefix to the
number, like adding a letter “P” before the number. You can preview the result viewing the
Sample at the bottom of the dialog box.
3. If you need to continue the numbering sequence from previous pages without interruption,
please check Extend numbering used in preceding section to selected pages.
4. Click OK to finish.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
146
Chapter 7 – Comments
A comment is a written note intended as an opinion, an explanation, an illustration, or a statement
of fact or opinion, especially a remark that expresses a personal reaction or attitude. You can type
a text message or add a line, circle, or other shape to make comments on PDFs you are reading
with Foxit PhantomPDF commenting commands. You can also edit, reply, delete, and move the
comments with ease.
Commenting Commands
There are various annotation tools with different functions for you to choose: Text Markup Tools,
Pin Tools, Typewriter Tools, Drawing Tools, Measure Tools and Stamp Tools. You can add different
comments by selecting the annotation tools from the Comments tab or Toolbar. See also the
tutorial on Commenting Tools.
Text Markup Tools
You can use Text Markup tools to indicate where text should be edited or noticed. Text Markups do
not change the actual text in the PDF. Instead, they indicate which text should be deleted, inserted,
highlighted or underlined. Text Markup tools include Highlight, Squiggly, Underline, Strikeout,
Replace, and Insert.
To add a text markup comment:
Choose Comment > Text Markup > select [Markup tools name]. Then click and drag from the
beginning of the text you want to mark up.
Type text in the pop-up note. You can also use the Select Text command to copy and
paste text from a PDF into the note, or copy the note using Ctrl + C in other applications. If
you need to format the text in the pop-up note, select the text and choose the desired option
in the Comment Format context tab.
Change the appearance of text markup comments in the Comment Format tab that appears
when you choose a text markup tool.
Text Markup Tools
Button
Tool Name
Description
Highlight Text
To mark important passages of text with a fluorescent (usually) marker as a
means of memory retention or for later reference.
Squiggly Text
To draw a squiggly line under. Similar to the Underline command.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
147
Underline Text
To draw a line under to indicate emphasis.
Strikeout Text
To draw a line to cross out text, making others know the text is deleted.
Replace Text
To draw a line to cross out text and provide a substitute for it.
Insert Text
A proofreading symbol (^) used to indicate where something is to be
inserted in a line.
Note: If you want to add multiple comments without reselecting the same tool, you can check Keep
Tool Selected at Comment > Manage Comments.
Pin Tools
You can use pin tools to add comments by adding notes and attaching a file. In note comments you
can type a text message. Using the command , you can attach a file in the document as a
comment.
Add a Note Comment
To add a note comment, please click the Note command , click where you want to place
the note and enter text in the box. If you need to format the text in the pop-up note, select
the text and choose the desired option in the Comment Format context tab.
Change the appearance of note comments in the Comment Format tab that appears when
you select a commenting tool.
Add a file attachment
To add a file attachment as a comment, do the following:
Click the button on the Pin group under the Comment tab.
Position the pointer to the place where you want to attach a file as a comment > click the
selected position.
In the Add Attachment dialog box, select the file you want to attach, and click Open.
Note: If you try to attach certain file formats (such as EXE), Foxit PhantomPDF will provide you with
a warning that your attachment will be denied due to your security settings.
The File Attachment Icon appears at the place you designated.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
148
Typewriter Tools
The Typewriter tools include Typewriter, Callout, and Textbox.
Typewriter
You can use the Typewriter command to add comments anywhere on a PDF, which doesn’t appear
as annotations.
Note: The Typewriter command can be used to fill forms. See also “Filling non-interactive forms”.
Typewriter comment
Add comments with typewriter
Choose the Comment tab > the Typewriter group > the Typewriter command.
Put the cursor on the area to type any text you want. The Comment FORMAT tab appears
for you to specify the font format, add bullets, align text, etc.
Press Enter if you want to start a new line.
To finish typing, click anywhere outside the text you have inputted.
Tip: It’s easy to copy-and-paste text to PDF document as a typewriter annotation from a text
document or webpage.
Editing the typewriter comment
Choose the Comment tab > the Typewriter group > the Typewriter command.
Put the pointer between the letters and double-click to activate the typewriter text field.
Do any changes to the text you have inputted by using the Comment FORMAT tab. Use
Backspace or Delete keys to delete the characters before or after the pointer.
To finish editing, click anywhere outside the text field.
Tip: You can use the Arrow Keys to move the pointer right and left or up and down.
Spell Checking Typewriter Input
You are able to use the Spell Checker to check your typewriter input give you correcting suggestions
if the security settings allow. The Spell Checker component has been integrated into Foxit
PhantomPDF. However in the future when an update of this component is available on the Foxit
server, you have to manually download the component by going to Check for Updates in the Help
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
149
menu of Foxit PhantomPDF.
If you have installed Spell Checker, when you use typewriter to insert any English text, this tool will
try to find any spelling errors and highlight them with squiggly lines.
Right click on the misspelled words, and you will see a list of suggested words.
Choose one of the suggested words to correct your input or ignore the squiggly line.
Move the typewriter comment
Do one of the following:
Choose the Comment tab > the Typewriter group > the Typewriter command and put the
cursor on the typewriter comment when the cursor turns to be an arrow , hold down the
mouse and drag the typewriter comment to the intended place.
Tips:
You can use Home, End or Arrow Key to move the cursor among characters.
When moving the typewriter comment, a rectangle appears.
Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command , click the typewriter
comment, and move it to the intended place.
Delete the typewriter comment
Choose the Comment tab > the Typewriter group > the Typewriter command. Position the
cursor to the ending or the beginning of the text, drag the cursor to select them all, and press
the Delete key.
(Recommended method) Click the Select Annotation command or the Hand command ,
right-click the text field, and choose Delete.
Callout and Textbox
Callout and Textbox are designed for users to create comments in a callout text box or a box.
Callout text boxes are especially useful when you want to single out (but not obscure) a particular
area of a document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
150
A textbox is a rectangle of any size, possibly with a border that separates the text box from the rest
of the interface, allowing the user to input text information. A text box usually remains visible on
the document page. It doesn’t close like a pop-up note.
Note: You can add comments to Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text with the Callout command or
Textbox command, but you must have the Eastern Asian Language module installed. Callout text
boxes and Text boxes allow for horizontal text only.
Add a callout or textbox
- Choose Comment > Typewriter > Callout/Textbox.
- Click the place where you want to insert the callout or text box. The Comment FORMAT
tab appears for you to specify the font format, add bullets, align text, etc.
- Type the text. Text wraps automatically when it reaches the right edge of the box.
Resize, move, edit or delete a callout or textbox
Select the Hand command , the Select Annotation command or the corresponding
annotation tool, and do one of the following:
- To resize the callout or textbox, select it and drag any of the handles to resize it.
- To move the callout or textbox, select it and drag to the intended place.
- To edit the callout or textbox, double-click it and do the editing by using the Comment
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
151
FORMAT tab.
- To delete the callout or textbox, select it and press Delete, or right-click it and then choose
Delete.
Setting callout or textbox preferences
Please refer to “Editing the typewriter comment”.
Drawing Tools
Drawing Tools allow you to mark up a document with rectangles, ovals, polygons, clouds, arrows,
lines, polylines, etc. It is quite useful when you have to make some shapes to mark the text or
image.
To add a drawing markup comment,
Choose Comment > Drawing Markup > select [Markup tools name]. Then click and drag to
make a shape you want to mark up.
Double-click the markup to write the comment. If you need to format the text in the pop-up
note, select the text and choose the desired option in the Comment Format context tab.
Change the appearance of drawing markup comments in the Comment Format tab that
appears when you choose a drawing markup tool.
Drawing Tools
Button
Tool Name
Description
Rectangle
To draw a four-sided plane figure with four right angles. Press Shift key
to draw a square.
Oval
To draw an oval shape or a circle with pressing Shift key.
Polygon
To draw a closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
Cloudy
To draw cloudy shapes.
Arrow
To draw something, such as a directional symbol, that is similar to an
arrow in form or function.
Line
To mark with a line.
PolyLine
To draw an open plane figure with three or more line segments.
Pencil
To draw free-form shapes.
Rubber
An implement, acts as a piece of rubber, used for erasing the pencil
markups.
Area
Highlight
To mark important area as a means of memory retention or for later
reference.
Note:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
152
If you draw a cloud shape in a counterclockwise direction, the cloud comes out inward . If you
draw the lines forming the shape in a clockwise direction, the cloud is created with the points
outward .
Tips:
To draw a line in horizontal, vertical, or at a 45 degree angle, press Shift while you draw with
the Line command.
To draw a square or circle with the Oval command or the Rectangle command, press Shift
while you draw.
Adding Free-form Annotation with PSI (Pressure Sensitive Ink)
Foxit PhantomPDF adds PSI support for free-form annotation. You can use Surface Pro Pen or
Wacom Pen to add free-form annotations with PSI in PDFs. Detailed steps are as follows:
(For Surface Pro users) Choose Comment > Drawing > Pencil, and then add free-form
annotation as needed with Surface Pro Pen;
(For Wacom tablet users) Connect your Wacom tablet to the computer, choose Comment >
Drawing > Pencil, and then add free-form annotation as needed with Wacom Pen.
Edit, resize or move the markup
Select the Hand command , the Select Annotation command or the corresponding Drawing
Tool.
To edit the drawing markup, right-click, select Properties and do settings as needed.
To resize the drawing markup, select it, put the cursor on one of the green points, and drag
one of the handles to make your adjustments.
To move the drawing markup, select it and drag it to the target place.
To add a pop-up note to the markup, select it and double-click the markup or right-click it and
choose Open Popup Note.
If you draw a line or arrow, you can enable the comment to be shown on the line or arrow by
checking Show text in line in the line properties box.
Check Set Current Properties as Default so that the current settings can be applied next time
by default.
Delete the markup
Select the markup and press the Delete key. Or right-click the markup and select Delete.
Group the markups
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
153
Grouping drawing markups enables you to combine them so that you can work with them as
though they were a single object. You can move or delete the group, set its status, change its
appearance, etc.
Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command , and do one of the
following:
- To group/ungroup markups, select the markups you want to group/ungroup by pressing Ctrl >
right-click group/ungroup.
- To work with a group, select one of the markups and then work with the group as other
comments.
Measure Tools
The Measure Tools enable you to measure distances and areas of objects in PDF documents. The
measure tools are especially useful when you need to know the distances or areas associated with
objects in a form or computer-aided design (CAD) drawing or when you want to measure certain
areas of a document before sending to a professional printer. The measure tools are available to
Reader users only if the PDFs are measurable.
When you use a measure tool, the tool dialog box displays the measurements of the line segments
you draw.
Measuring the objects
Choose Comment > Measure > [measure tool name], and do any of the following:
Select the Distance command to measure the distance between two points. Click the first
point, move the pointer to the second point, and click again. The measurements will appear
on the page.
Select the Perimeter command to measure a set of distance between multiple points.
Click the first point to start, and then click each point you want to measure. Double-click the
last point to end measuring.
Select the Area command to measure the area within the line segments that you draw.
Click the first point to start, and then click each point you want to measure. After you have
clicked at least two points, click the first point or double-click the last point to complete the
area measurement.
Note: You can also choose to complete or cancel measurement by right-clicking the measurement
and choosing options from the context menu.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
154
Before measuring, you can set the scale ratio or other options. The Comment Format tab appears
after you select the measuring tool, and then do any of the following:
To change the scaling ratio (such as 2:1, say, when the distance on the screen is 2 inch then
the actual distance is 1 inch.) on the drawing areas, specify the appropriate numbers. If
necessary, change the unit of measurement next to this ratio.
Check Show result information if you want to see the current measuring result, including real
distance, angle, horizontal and vertical position, etc.
Check Measurement markup to type text as a comment in the Annotation box. When you put
the pointer over the measurement with the Hand command selected you can view the
measurement result and annotation you typed in the Annotation box. Or when you double-
click the measurement, the pop-up note of the measurement will also show the
measurement result and the annotation.
Check Rulers to show the rulers.
Choose one or more snapping types from the Snap group. For precise measurements, position
the key points when moving the cursor.
Snap to Endpoints : a small red circle will appear at the endpoint of the path when
moving the cursor toward the end of the path.
Snap to Midpoints : a small red triangle will appear at the midpoint of a path when
moving the cursor over the path.
Snap to Paths : the cursor will automatically change to a red square box on a path when
moving the cursor over the path.
Snap to Intersections : a small red cross will appear at the intersection of two paths when
moving the cursor over the point of two intersecting paths.
Note: The object you draw will disappear when the Measurement Markup is deselected in the
Distance dialog box.
Working on the measurement markup
After you complete the measurement, you are able to do further operations on it, such as move,
resize, flip, and even work on it the way you work on comments.
1. Moving the measurement markup
With the Hand command or the Select Annotation command selected, click the
measurement markup you want to move.
Place the cursor over the object when the pointer changes into , hold and drag the mouse
to move it to the intended place.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
155
2. Changing the length and orientation of the line segment
With the Hand command or the Select Annotation command selected, select one of
the resize corners , you will see the pointer change into .
Hold and drag the mouse to change the length and orientation of the line segment.
3. Flipping the measurement markup and the annotation
You can reverse the measurement markup and the annotation.
Before flipping After flipping
To flip the measurement markup and the annotation, do the following:
Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command .
Right-click the object you draw > select Flip.
Stamps
The Stamp Tools in Foxit PhantomPDF are a group of advanced tools that enable you to stamp
content and watermarks into a PDF document. Foxit PhantomPDF supports image stamps with
various image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF, etc.) and PDF file stamps. You can either create
dynamic stamps which can obtain information from your system including name, date and time, or
import existing dynamic stamps. Stamping PDF files is a very useful feature especially when you
need to give reviewers some advices about the document's status or sensitivity.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
156
Stamp a PDF
You can choose from a list of predefined stamps, or create custom stamps before stamping a PDF.
All the stamps that you import or create are listed in the drop-down menu of the Stamp command
and Stamps Palette. To apply a stamp, please do the following:
1. Choose Comment tab > Stamps group > Stamp button > choose a stamp from the menu. Or
choose Comment > Stamps > Create > Show Stamps Palette…. In the Stamps window, select
a category from the menu, and then select a stamp.
2. The cursor changes into a rectangle with the appearance preview of the stamp. Click on the
position where you want to place the stamp.
3. (Optional) To apply the stamp to multiple pages, please right-click the stamp and choose Place
on Multiple Pages…. Specify the page range to place the stamp and click OK.
Note: All the stamps that you import or customize will be listed after you click Stamp button, you
can choose directly a stamp from the menu.
Create a Stamp
You can create custom stamps and dynamic stamps.
Creating a Custom Stamp
Standard Stamp
Create a Custom Dynamic
stamp
Create a Custom Stamp
Dynamic Stamp
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
157
1. Choose Comment > Stamps > Create > Create Custom Stamp.
2. In the Create Custom Stamp dialog box, click Browse… and choose an image file or a PDF file.
If the selected file contains multiple pages, you can drag the scroll bar to select a page.
3. Type a new category name or choose a category from drop-down menu, name the stamp, and
then click OK.
Note: If the stamp you choose is an image file, you can adjust the opacity of the image via dragging
the scrollbar as needed.
You can also create a stamp from the clipboard. Please do the following:
Copy the image to the clipboard.
Choose Comment > Stamps > Create > Paste Clipboard Image as Stamp Tool, the cursor will
be changed into a rectangle.
Put the cursor over the desired place and you’re done.
Create a Custom Dynamic Stamp
You can create a Custom Dynamic Stamp to add text, author name and date time on stamps. Please
do the following:
1. Choose Comment > Stamps > Create > Create Custom Dynamic Stamp….
2. In the Create Custom Dynamic Stamp dialog box, choose one stamp template from the left list
or create your own stamp template which can be an image file. Choose a category from drop-
down menu or name a new one, then name the stamp.
3. Specify Font, Font Size and Font Color.
4. From the Stamp Text option, if you choose <author name>, <date and time>, <date> or <
author name, date and time> category without typing any text, it will automatically obtain
current user, date, time from your system when you click Add button.
5. You can instantly adjust the added content to fit your needs when you preview current stamp
on the right top preview pane.
6. Click OK.
Manage a stamp
To manage a stamp, please do the following:
Choose Comment > Stamps > Create > Manage Stamps, open Management Custom Stamps
dialog box, and select a stamp.
Click Create and choose one option from the drop-down menu to create a stamp. Please refer
to Creating a stamp.
Click Edit to edit the selected stamp, such as changing category, stamp name, or replacing the
image or PDF files etc. Please refer to Creating a stamp.
Click Delete to remove the stamp.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
158
Note: Deleting a custom stamp category will delete all stamps that are subordinate to it.
Cut/Copy and Paste a Stamp
To cut/copy and paste a stamp, please do the following:
Select the stamp you want to cut or copy.
Right-click the stamp > Cut/Copy. Or use the shortcut keys Ctrl + X/C to cut and copy.
Right-click on the page you want to paste the stamp and select Paste. Or use the shortcut keys
Ctrl + V to paste.
Undo/Redo a Stamp
To undo/redo a Stamp, please click the undo button and redo button on the Quick Access
toolbar.
Resize/move a stamp
- Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command .
- To resize a stamp, select it, put the cursor on one of the red points, and drag one of the
handles to make your adjustments.
- To move a stamp, select it to drag.
- To add a pop-up note to a stamp, select it and double-click the stamp or right-click it and
choose Open Popup Note.
Rotate a stamp
- Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command .
- Click the stamp with the command, a handle will appear over the stamp. Put the cursor
on the handle and rotate the stamp by dragging the cursor. The rotating degree number
will appear as you rotate the stamp.
Delete a stamp
Do one of the following:
- Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command , select the stamp
you want to delete and then press the Delete key.
- Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command , right-click on the
stamp, and choose Delete from the Context Menu.
Set Favorite Stamps
Choose Comment > Stamps > Create > Set Favorite Stamps….
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
159
Select a stamp in All Stamps panel, and then click Add to Favorite, then the stamp you select
will be added to Favorite Stamps panel.
To remove a stamp from Favorite Stamps panel, select the stamp you want to remove and
then click Remove from Favorite.
Change the Appearance of Comments
You can change the color and appearances of comments or markups after you create them by right-
clicking the comment and choosing Properties. Also, you can set the new look as the default
appearance for that tool.
In the Properties dialog box for each comment, there are two options:
Check Locked at the bottom of the Properties dialog box to prevent the comment from being
moved, altered or deleted.
Set Current Properties as Default – check this option to set the current property settings as
default so that all the settings can be applied by default the next time.
Note: You can change the appearance of comments either in the Comment Format context tab or
in the comment properties dialog box. If you change the appearance through the Comment Format
context tab, Foxit PhantomPDF will save the properties and apply them in the new comments as
well. If you change the appearance via the Properties dialog box and do not check Set Current
Properties as Default option in the dialog, Foxit PhantomPDF will only apply the properties to your
currently selected comment.
Change the appearance of Note Comments
1. After you create a note comment, right-click the note icon and choose Properties…, or click
Options at the top-right corner of the note popup box and choose Properties….
2. In the Note Properties dialog box, do any of the following, and then click Close:
Click the Appearance tab to change the color and opacity of the comment.
Click the Note Type tab to change the type of icon used.
Click the General tab to change the author’s name and subject of the comment.
Click the Review History tab to see the history of changes people have made to the status of
a comment during a review.
See also “Set a status”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
160
Change the appearance of Text Markups
Follow the steps of “Change the appearance of Note Comments”.
There is no Note Type tab in Text Markups settings.
Change the appearance of Drawing Markups
In the Properties dialog box, do any of the following, and then click Close:
Click the Appearance tab to change such options as the border style, color and opacity. The
type of the comment selected determines which options are available.
Click the General tab to change the author’s name and subject of the comment.
Click the Review History tab to see the history of changes people have made to the status of
a comment during a review.
See also “Set a status”.
Change the appearance of Typewriter Markups
In the Typewriter Properties dialog box, do any of the following, and then click Close:
Click the Appearance tab to change the opacity.
Click the General tab to change the author’s name and subject of the comment.
Click the Review History tab to see the history of changes people have made to the status of
a comment during a review.
See also “Set a status”.
Change the appearance of a textbox or callout
Please refer to “Change the appearance of Drawing Markups”.
Managing Comments
View all comments
The comments panel displays all comments in the PDF so that you can easily find the comments.
In addition, it also provides a toolbar with basic options: Expand All, Collapse All, Previous, Next,
Sort By, Hide/Show all comments, Search box, and Filter.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
161
The comment is displayed in the popup note or on the markup icon and acts as a tooltip when
the popup note is closed.
If you input the comment with too many lines, it will only show some of the comment while
the rest will be displayed as suspension points when the cursor is moved outside the popup
note. Click inside the message box to view it with scroll bar.
Click the Filter icon to search specific comments you need by the author and status. In the
Filter Comments box, select a status or author to show the comments that are in the status
and made by the author. If you only want to filter the comments by the original author and
ignore all the replies, please check Filter by the original author only as well. Click Clear
Selection to clear all filters.
The Comments Panel displays all the comments in the PDF without any filter; if you have
filtered the comments, only the comments that match the filtering criteria appear in the panel.
When you navigate through comments, the selected comment will automatically be kept in
sync with the current comment being displayed. And you click on a comment to go to the
specify comment on page.
To view comments in Comments panel,
Click the comments button in Navigation pane to open Comments panel.
In Comments panel, there are the following functions to provide you:
Search box - Type a string to search comments that contains the string.
Expand All – Click Expand All button to expand individual comments.
Collapse All – Click Collapse All button to collapse all comments.
Previous /Next – Browse through the comments. Click the Previous button or
the Next button to go to the previous or next comment. The two buttons are unavailable
if no comment is selected.
Sort By – you can sort comments by author, page, type, date. In a thread of replies,
only first message is sorted, and the reply messages are sorted in the same category as
first message.
Show/Hide all comments – you can show/hide all comments in the PDF document.
Note:
1. You can click the plus and minus signs next to comment to expand or collapse comments.
2. The page on which comment is located is kept in sync with the selected comment. To go to the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
162
page where a comment is located, only simply click the comment in the comment panel.
3. To show/hide all comments on the Comments panel, you can also choose Comment > Manage
Comments > Comments > Show All/ Hide All.
Cut, copy, paste and delete comments
Cut comments
Cutting removes selected comments from the current location. Once you cut the comments, you
can paste within the same document, into a different document.
Select comments to be cut.
Select Cut from the right-click menu, or press Ctrl + X.
You are now ready to paste.
Copy comments
Once you copy the comments, you can paste within the same document, into a different document.
Select comments to be copied.
Select Copy from the right-click menu, or press Ctrl + C.
You are now ready to paste.
Paste comments
You can paste comments within the same document, a different document in Foxit PhantomPDF.
Copy or cut the selected comments.
Place your cursor where you want to paste comments within the same document or to
another opened document.
Select Paste from the right-click menu, or press Ctrl + V.
Delete comments
Select the annotation to be removed with the Hand command , the Select Annotation
command , or the corresponding annotation tool.
Choose Delete from the right-click menu, or press Delete.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
163
Undo and Redo comments
See also “Undo and Redo”
Set and change a status
Set a status
Setting a status is useful for keeping track of comments that you have read or that require further
action. You can use the status to indicate which comments you want to accept, reject, cancel,
complete or export to other documents, or mark for future consideration.
By setting the review status, you can show or hide a certain set of comments, and let review
participants know how you are going to handle the comment. Once the review status is set, you
cannot remove the review status display from history in the Review History list, even if you change
the review status to None.
Change the status of a comment
With the Hand command, the Select Annotation command or the corresponding tool selected,
right-click a comment in the document pane or Comments panel you want to change the
status of, choose Set Status > choose one option from the pop-up Context menu, and then
select an option.
To view a markup’s history of changes:
A. Right-click the markup in the document pane or Comments panel, and then choose
Properties.
B. In the Properties dialog box, click the Review History tab to view the history of status
changes people have made to a markup.
Reply to comments
Replying to comments is useful in shared reviews, when participants can read each other’s
comments. They can also be used by review initiators to let reviewers know how their suggestions
are being implemented. All replies appear in the popup note and are listed below the original
comment. You can view the respective reply with the reply title and mark.
1. To reply to original comments in the pop-up note, do any of the following:
Using the Hand command, the Select Annotation command, or the corresponding
comment tool, open the pop-up note for the comment and select Reply in the Options.
And then type your reply in the textbox that appears in the pop-up window.
Right-click the original comment and select Reply. And then type your reply in the textbox
that appears in the pop-up window.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
164
2. Replying to Comments in the Comments List
Choose View > View Setting > Navigation Panels > Comments to open the Comments panel
if it is hidden.
Right-click the comment in the Comments panel and select Reply.
Input your reply in the box and click OK.
3. To respond to the reply, please do as below:
Using the Hand command, the Select Annotation command, or the corresponding
comment tool, and open the pop-up note for the comment.
Right-click the title of the reply and select Reply to this Reply. And then type your reply in
the textbox that appears in the pop-up window.
4. Delete the reply message, do either of the following:
In the note pop-up window, right-click the reply window and click Delete this Reply.
In the Comments panel, right-click the reply message, and click Delete.
5. Change the color of reply message window
In the note pop-up window, right-click the reply message window and choose Change Color.
6. Flag comments with a checkmark
You can mark with a comment with a checkmark by right-clicking the comment and selecting
Mark with a Checkmark. The checkmark icon will appear in the Comments pane in the
navigation pane. Or you can directly make the checkmark for a comment in the Comments
pane. With the checkmark you can sort comments.
7. Change the author name
Right-click the comment and select Change Author Name.
Note: To open/close all comments’ popup notes, please choose Comment > Manage Comments >
Popup notes > Open All/ Close All.
Arrange comments
You can arrange multiple comments by aligning, centering and distributing them. Please follow the
steps below.
Select multiple comments
1. Select the Select Annotation command .
2. Press and hold Shift or Ctrl and click the comments you want to edit. To select all comments in
the document, click on a blank area in the Comments panel and press Ctrl + A.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
165
Align Comments
Select two or more comments that you want to align. Then do one of the following:
Choose Comment > Drawing > Arrange > Alignment, and then choose a command as follows:
A. To align a column of comments, choose , , or to align them respectively
to the left edge, right edge, or vertical axis of the anchor comment.
B. To align a row of comments, choose , , or to align them respectively to
the top edge, bottom edge, or horizontal axis of the anchor comment.
Note: When you right-click or Ctrl-click one of the selected comments, it will be highlighted in red,
indicating that it’s the anchor comment. The align menu commands move the other selected
comments to line up with the edges of the anchor comment.
Refer to Align Images for more information.
Center Comments
This function enables you to center comments vertically, horizontally or both.
To center comments, select two or more comments that you want to center. Then do one of the
following:
Choose Comment > Drawing > Arrange > Page Center, and then choose , , or
to center them vertically, horizontally or both.
Please refer to Center Images for more information.
Distribute Comments
In the context of laying out comments on a page, you can give a group of comments uniform
spacing, based on the centers of adjacent comments. This function will be available when selecting
three or more comments.
To distribute the comments, choose Comment > Drawing > Arrange > Distribute, and then
choose and to distribute vertically or horizontally.
Please refer to Distribute Images for more information.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
166
Summarize comments
Summarizing comments is an easy way to help you directly obtain a synopsis of comments
associated with the PDF. Foxit PhantomPDF supports to create a comment summary PDF. To create
a comment summary, do as below:
1. Choose Comment > Manage Comments > Summarize Comments.
2. In Create Comment Summary dialog box, do the following:
A. Choose the layout of the summary and there are five types of layouts for you to choose:
L1--Document and comment with connector lines on separate pages
L2-- Document and comment with connector lines on single pages
L3—Comments only
L4-- Document and comment with sequence numbers on separate pages
L5-- Document and comment with sequence numbers on single pages
L1 L2
L3 L4
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
167
L5
B. Comment Type - Choose the comment type you want to summarize.
C. Paper Size-Select the paper size of the summary
D. Font Size - Select the font size of the summary.
E. Sort comments by – Choose how to sort the comments.
F. Include pages– Specify the page range you need to summarize.
3. Click OK and a PDF named “Summary of Comments on [original document name].pdf” will
be opened automatically. You can rename it before you save.
Send annotated PDFs
Foxit PhantomPDF makes it easy for users to share reviews. You can send your annotated PDFs to
any reviewers to check and respond to your comments.
To send an annotated PDF file, do the following:
Click on the Save button to save all the comments you have made.
Choose Share > Send To > Email to send it out.
Import/export comments data
This feature is especially useful for PDF reviewing. When you receive an email invitation to a PDF
review, the invitation typically includes the PDF as an attachment or provides a URL to the PDF.
Alternatively, you may receive a Form Data Format (FDF) attachment. When opened, an FDF file
configures your review settings and opens the PDF in a web browser. At this moment, you need to
know how to import the comment data from the FDF file. Similarly, you may export comment data
and send them as an FDF file to the other participants.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
168
Import comments data
Do the following:
Double-click a FDF file to open it directly with Foxit PhantomPDF.
Choose Comment > Manage Comments > Import > navigate to where the desired file
is, select it (if you want to import multiple comments file, you can select them by holding
Ctrl/Shift or by dragging the mouse to select), and press “Open”. You will be prompted that
the comments data has been imported successfully.
Export comments data
To export comments data, please do one of the following;
To export all comments as a FDF
A. Choose Comment > Manage Comments > Export > All Comments.
B. You will be presented with a standard Windows “Save As” dialog box. Navigate to where
you want to save the FDF file (e.g., your Documents folder), specify its name and click
Save button.
C. You will be prompted that the data has been exported successfully.
To export all comments as an FDF file and send in an e-mail
A. Choose Comment > Manage Comments > FDF via Email .
B. Your default e-mail program will pop up, and the comments data will be exported as a
FDF file and attached in the email automatically.
C. Type the e-mail address and title > click Send.
D. The comments in FDF will be sent separately.
To export highlighted text as an TXT file
A. Choose Comment > Manage Comments > Export > Highlighted Text.
B. You will be presented with a standard Windows Save As dialog. Navigate to where you
want to save the TXT file, specify the file name, and click Save.
C. You will be prompted that the data has been exported successfully.
Note: The option of Export comments data will be available only when the comments have been
added to the PDFs.
Tip: The users of Foxit PhantomPDF can import the comments data from txt and dbf files or export
the data of PDFs and save in FDF formats file. You can also export the data in FDF format and
email as an attachment.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
169
Chapter 8 – Share PDFs
Foxit PhantomPDF supports different methods to share PDF documents with others. You can easily
email documents to share with others by one-click and, check out and check in PDFs in your
SharePoint server. If you need to collect comments from reviewers as well as sharing documents,
Foxit PhantomPDF provides two useful and easily-used methods: Send for Shared Review and Send
for Email Review. Integration with SharePoint, NetDocuments, iManage Work, and OpenText
eDOCS lets users share and manage documents easily within one application.
Email Documents
E-mailing documents is a useful feature. You may need to send a PDF file you are reading to the
customers to speed up your daily work, or an interesting story that you want to share with your
friends.
To e-mail a PDF file, please do the following:
Choose Share > Send to > Email > Email Current Tab (Email the PDF file that you are currently
reading) or Email All Open Tabs (Email all the PDF files that have been opened in Foxit
PhantomPDF).
System default e-mail application runs.
The PDF(s) will be attached in the e-mail automatically.
Type the subject and e-mail address, and click Send.
Send to Evernote
Directly send current PDF document to Evernote as an attachment.
Prerequisites – You should set up an Evernote account from
https://www.evernote.com/Registration.action.
Download and install – http://evernote.com/evernote/?file=Win&btn=grey.
Open a PDF file.
Choose Share > Send to > Evernote .
You will see the current PDF document is attached to your Evernote ready.
Send to OneNote
You can send your PDF document to OneNote quickly within PhantomPDF after edits.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
170
Open and edit the document with PhantomPDF.
Save the changes and then click Share > Send To > OneNote.
Select a section/page in your notebooks, and click OK.
In the pop-up dialog box, choose Attach File or Insert Printout to insert your document
to the selected section/page in OneNote.
SharePoint Integration
Foxit PhantomPDF has been integrated with Microsoft SharePoint, which helps you better manage
and share PDFs. You can access PDFs in a SharePoint repository by any of the following:
• Open a PDF file in the SharePoint mapped drive by Open dialog box within Foxit PhantomPDF.
You can open and check out a PDF, modify it and then check in and save to the SharePoint
network drive.
• You can also use Foxit PhantomPDF’s Open or Save As dialog box to work on PDFs in your
SharePoint repository, whether the SharePoint repository is SharePoint online or SharePoint
on-premise. More details please refer to Open and Save As PDFs with Foxit PhantomPDF.
• Directly check out and check in PDFs in your SharePoint repository on SharePoint on-premise
through the SharePoint web interface using a browser after configuring your server. Please
refer to SharePoint Configuration to configure your server first. More details please refer to
Open and Save As PDFs with a Web Browser.
Open and Save As PDFs with Foxit PhantomPDF
Open PDF files in a SharePoint repository
To open PDF files in a SharePoint repository, please do the following: (Take opening PDFs in a
SharePoint repository on SharePoint online for example)
- Run Foxit PhantomPDF and choose File > Open > Add a place > SharePoint . In the
Add dialog box, type the SharePoint URL to sign in and click Next to continue.
- In the pop-up dialog box enter the email address and the password to sign in.
- In the Open dialog box, select the Shared Documents folder and click Open.
- Choose the PDF file you want to open and click Open.
- In the Foxit PhantomPDF dialog box, if you choose Check out and Open, other users cannot
edit the PDF at the same time; if you only choose Open, others can modify the PDF as well
when you are editing. (Check Don’t ask me again to bypass this dialog box in the future and
use the current choice selected next time you open a PDF. You can change the setting later in
File > Preferences > SharePoint.)
- (Optional) You are also allowed to preview non-PDF files on SharePoint in PhantomPDF. The
non-PDF files will be converted to PDF temporarily when you try to open them.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
171
- (Optional) If you want to cancel the Check Out status, please go to Share > SharePoint
Integration > Discard Check Out .
- Edit the PDF according to your requirements.
- To set the PDF properties, please do the following steps:
1. Please go to Share > SharePoint Integration > Prepare Document Properties .
2. In the Document Properties dialogue, double-click the column name to edit the value in
the Edit text box. For example, double-click Title, the Edit text box will pop up, type the
content you want and click OK to finish the editing.
- Go to SharePoint > Check In.
In the Check In dialogue box, select a version number for the modified document along with
the appropriate the version comments. To not allow other people to modify the document,
you can check Keep the document checked out after check in this version.
- Click OK, the modified PDF will be loaded to the server automatically.
Save as PDF files to a SharePoint repository
To save as PDF files to a SharePoint repository, please do the following: (Take saving as PDFs to a
SharePoint repository on SharePoint online for example)
- Choose File > Save As > Add a place > SharePoint . In the Add dialog box, type the
SharePoint URL to sign in and click Next to continue.
- In the pop-up dialog box enter the email address and the password to sign in.
- In the Save As dialog box, select the Shared Documents folder and click Save.
Open and Save As PDFs with a Web Browser
To work on PDFs in your SharePoint repository on SharePoint on-premise with a web browser, you
just need to log on to your SharePoint web portal, navigate to a PDF and click it. You will be
prompted whether to check out and open the PDF. See also Check Out and Open. Then you can
check in to save it back to your SharePoint repository.
Tip: If you need to save to your local folder, after editing the PDF you can click File > Save As >
Computer and choose a local foder to save.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
172
Shared Review and Email Review
Foxit PhantomPDF enables users to initiate a review by two methods: Shared Review and Email
Review. You can set up your review, specify reviewers and review deadlines. You do not need to
import and export comment data or manually track reviewer responses. The review Tracker can
help review initiators track all reviews and manage the whole review in real time.
See also the tutorial on Shared Review.
Shared Review
Collect Comments on an Internal Server
Shared Review allows document authors to share a document on an internal server with others to
gather feedback/comments from the reviewers. The review initiator can specify the document
location, invite participants and set the review deadline.
After receiving the invitation from the review initiator, reviewers can mark-up PDFs using a full set
of commenting tools. Comments from reviewers will be stored in the internal server and
synchronized by Foxit PhantomPDF to download them at a regular interval. Reviewers will be
notified if new comments are added by others and they can also reply to these comments.
1. (For review initiators) To send a PDF out for shared review (Available in Business Edition Only),
please do the following:
- Choose a document for shared review and open with Foxit PhantomPDF.
Note: To guard against non-reviewers from accessing the document while it is on a shared
repository, before sending out for review you can add some security policies to the document such
as password/certificate encryption and AD RMS protection.
- Choose Share > Review > Send for Shared Review > Collect comments on an internal
server.
- In the pop-up Send for Shared Review dialog box:
1) Select the location of the document. The location can be a network folder or a SharePoint
Workspace.
Tip: If using a network folder, it must be a Windows machine running Windows 7,
windows Server 2008, or a later version of either. All reviewers must have read and write
access to the shared folder and then can make comments with Foxit PhantomPDF or
Reader 7.0 or a later release. You can track each reviewer’s comments and reply to them
accordingly. Reviewers can also see and reply to each other’s comments.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
173
2) Select a distribution and display method:
Send it automatically as a link within the message – The path to the shared document
will be automatically included in the email message to be sent to reviewers using your
installed email client (i.e. Outlook). The shared document will be named “[original
document name]_review.pdf” by default.
Send it automatically as an attachment to the message – The shared document will be
automatically sent as an email attachment to reviewers with the name “[original
document name]_review.pdf”.
Save a local copy and manually send it later – Click Browse button to rename the shared
document and choose a location to save it and send it to reviewers later manually.
3) Name this server profile, eg. “S1 (send as attachment)”, for further use in the future. The
profile is saved with the options you specified above. In the future, you can select the
profile directly from the Ribbon and skip this step.
- Click Next. If you haven’t set your identity information for your PDF viewers yet, enter your
identity information.
- Click Next to go on. Enter the email addresses of the desired reviewers. A semicolon or a
return can be inserted between each address if there is more than one address. Or click To…
button to access your contact list in your email system.
- Choose the review deadline and then type in an email message.
- After you send the email or save the shared document to a local copy, the shared document
is automatically opened, with a message box in the application window. With the options in
the message box, you can publish comments, check for new comments made by reviewers
and track the whole review. See also Review a shared review document and Review Tracker.
2. (For reviewers) To review a shared review document:
Upon the review initiator sending out the document, the specified reviewers will receive an email
invitation to a PDF review. The email includes an attached document named “[original document
name]_review.pdf” or provides a URL to the PDF. To review the document:
- Download the document and open it with Foxit PhantomPDF.
- If it is your first time opening a shared review document, you will be prompted for your
identity information. Please enter at least your name and email address.
- Enter an account name and password for the shared folder where the shared review
document is located.
- A message box appears in the application window with three options: Check for New
Comments, Publish Comments and a menu with three commands.
- You can add your comments using annotation tools and then click Publish Comments to
publish your comments which will be saved to the shared server.
- Check for New Comments allows you to view comments made by the initiator or other
reviewers. You can also reply to the comments. In normal situations, comment publishing and
checking will happen automatically. Foxit PhantomPDF supports to configure the interval to
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
174
check for new comments by selecting a length of time in File > Preferences > Reviewing >
Automatically Check for New Comments. PhantomPDF icon in the taskbar will flash to
prompt you that new comments are checked.
- Click Menu:
Track Reviews – To track all reviews you initiated or participated in, which is very useful when
you are involved in multiple reviews. See also Review Tracker.
Save As Archive Copy – Saves a copy of the document with review comments to your hard
drive when the review has ended.
Work Offline – If you don’t want to publish comments right after you make the comments,
this option can keep your work offline, until you click Work Online to be able to publish
comments.
Note:
1. Reviewers will not be able to make comments or do other modifications to the shared documents
in non-Foxit PDF viewers.
2. Reviewers should save the document as an archive copy to the hard drive using Foxit PDF viewers
so as to modify the content.
Use Connected Review on Foxit Server
Connected Review allows users to start a review without any deployment or any other server. In
Connected Review, each participant can see the comments from the others, which helps document
users collaborate by sharing comments on a document in real time. Also with one click, the review
initiator can view all participants, and end a review any time.
To start a Connected Review (Available in Business Edition Only), the document for review should
be a ConnectedPDF document, and you need to sign in your Foxit account. Then choose Share >
Review > Send for Shared Review > Use Connected Review on Foxit Server. A message box
to introduce Connected Review pops up. Click OK. Then a light bulb icon appears in the upper right
corner of the application window, showing that you have started a review of the current file. Other
users will also see the bulb when opening the document, and can choose to join the review. The
review initiator can also end the review by clicking Connect > Connected Review > End (Available
in Business Edition Only).
Email Review
Email Review is useful when reviewers don’t have access to a common server or initiators don’t
need collaborative reviews. In an Email Review, the initiator sends PDFs to reviewers as
attachments and can view comments only after receiving the commented PDFs from reviewers.
Also, the reviewers can only send back the PDFs after adding comments, and they cannot view
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
175
comments made by others.
1) To send a PDF out for email review (Available in Business Edition Only), please do the following:
- Choose a document for email review and open with Foxit PhantomPDF. This document
becomes the master file into which you can merge comments you receive from reviewers.
- Choose Share > Review > Send for Email Review .
- In the pop-up Send for Email Review dialog box, specify the recipients that you want to send
the document to for review, type in the message in the text box and click Send Invitation
button.
- A new email with the document attached will appear for you to send. Click Send to send out
the email.
- You can track the review status with the review tracker. Please refer to Review Tracker.
Note: Recipients of the shared document can review it and send it back with Foxit PhantomPDF or
Reader 7.0 or a later release, as well as Foxit MobilePDF Business.
2) To participate in an email review:
The recipients can download the document sent from the initiator and open it with Foxit
PhantomPDF, add their comments and click Send Comments button in the message box to send
their comments back to the initiator.
Likewise, you can manage your reviews by using the Tracker. See also Review Tracker.
3) To merge comments:
After receiving the document with comments from reviewers, the initiator open it and will be
prompted with a message box about whether to merge comments from this document into the
master file or not.
If you choose No, open this copy only button, you can still merge comments after you open it by
clicking Merge Comments button in the message box.
Review Tracker
The review Tracker helps you easily manage document reviews in real time. The tracker shows all
reviews you sent and joined and the detailed review status including review deadlines, reviewers,
comments, etc. You can also email reviewers/initiators and add reviewers with the tracker. If you
are the review initiator in a Shared Review, you can also change the deadline, end the review and
start a new review with the same reviewers.
To track all of your reviews, please click Share > Review > Tracker . You are enabled to save
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
176
the review details in the Tracker as a PDF file by right-clicking the document name in the Tracker
and choosing Create PDF From Tracker Details from the context menu.
NetDocuments Integration
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to open, edit, save, and check out/in PDFs on NetDocuments, which
offers you efficient document management. You can either open PDFs within PhantomPDF or from
web browsers.
Open PDFs on NetDocuments within PhantomPDF
1. Click File > Open > Add a place > NetDocuments. Before using PhantomPDF to open PDFs on
NetDocuments, you are required to install ndOffice in your system if you haven’t.
2. Log in to your NetDocuments account.
3. In the Open dialog box, click the document you want to open and then it will be checked out
and opened with PhantomPDF. Then make your edits as needed with advanced tools in
PhantomPDF.
4. (Optional) You are also allowed to preview non-PDF files on NetDocuments in PhantomPDF.
The non-PDF files will be converted to PDF temporarily when you try to open them.
5. After modification, you can save the changes to check back in to NetDocuments or to local
drives.
Tip: Users who don’t use ndOffice to open PDFs on NetDocuments, can return to the legacy
NetDocuments integration by changing the setting in File > Preferences > ECM Integration or
deleting the following registry key(s). This will allow the ActiveX (Check-in List) to handle PDFs
opened from IE. Delete both of the following key(s) in both locations:
X64：
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\NetVoyage\NetDocuments]
"ndOfficeHandoff"="pdf,ppdf"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Foxit Software\Foxit PhantomP
DF\ndoffice]
"ndOfficeHandoff"=pdf
X86：
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\NetVoyage\NetDocuments]
"ndOfficeHandoff"="pdf,ppdf"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Foxit Software\Foxit PhantomPDF\ndoffice]
"ndOfficeHandoff"=pdf
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
177
Open PDFs on NetDocuments from web browsers
You may want to open PDFs with PhantomPDF when clicking the document in a web browser like
Chrome, Firefox, and IE. To open PDFs with PhantomPDF, you must set PhantomPDF as the default
PDF viewer in web browsers and install ndOneClick, a component to give users a one-click method
to automatically check out/in documents in the native application without using the ActiveX add-
on for IE. Visit here to download ndOneClick.
After installing ndOneClick, log in to the NetDocuments account in your web browser, and then
you can check out and open PDFs within PhantomPDF as well as modify, save and check in PDFs.
iManage Work Integration
Integration with iManage Work, the popular and intelligent document and email management
solution, enables you to directly open, modify, and save PDF documents in your Work account
using PhantomPDF, which streamlines your PDF document management.
Register/Unregister servers
Before you work on PDF documents in iManage Work, please add the server your iManage Work
Server is installed on and log in your account.
Note: The DeskSite client is required in your system before registering servers. For better document
management, Foxit PhantomPDF enables you to convert non-PDF files to PDF via the context menu
within the DeskSite.
Register servers
1. Click File > Open > Add a place > iManage Work, or click SHARE > iManage Work >
Register/Unregister.
2. In the pop-up Server Connection dialog box, click Add.
3. Enter the server name and the login information in the Register and Login dialog box. Then
click Save. (Tip: You can check Auto Login to automatically log in to your iManage account next
time you launch PhantomPDF.)
4. Close the Server Connection dialog box. Then you can open your documents in your iManage
Work account.
Note: The server you added will be listed in File > Open and stored until you delete or unregister
it.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
178
Delete or unregister servers
Click Share > iManage Work > Register/Unregister. In the pop-up Server Connection dialog box,
select the server you want to unregister and click Delete.
Open and check out PDFs on iManage Work
1. Go to File > Open, click the server you registered previously and click Open. Or click Share >
iManage Work > Open after you register and connect to the server.
2. In the Open dialog box, select the document you need and click Open.
3. Specify the checkout settings in the Checkout dialog box, then click OK to open and check out
the document.
4. (Optional) You are also allowed to preview non-PDF files on iManage Work in PhantomPDF.
The non-PDF files will be converted to PDF temporarily when you try to open them.
Save
To save a local PDF document to the iManage Work repository, or if you open and edit a document
in the iManage Work without checking it out and need to save it to the iManage Work repository,
save the changes you made in the document and then do the following:
1. Go to File > Save As, click the server you registered previously and click Save. Or click Share >
iManage Work > Save.
2. In the Save As dialog box, choose a target folder and enter the name/description of the
document. Enter the Author name, or click the button next to the text box and choose a name.
You can also choose a class and a subclass for the document.
3. After completing all of the settings, click Detail… to display the details of the document
information. You can also edit the information in this dialog box.
4. When you’re done, click Save to save the document to the iManage Work.
To save a checked-out PDF document, you can choose to replace the original document in the
iManage Work or save it as a new version or a new document.
After modification, go to File > Save As, click the server you registered previously and click Save.
Or click Share > iManage Work > Save. In the Save As Options dialog box, choose any of the
following:
New Version: Click OK, set the document profile for the new version, and the modified
document will be saved as a new version, leaving the original document unchanged. And then
you can also customize the checkout settings for the document in the pop-up Checkout dialog
box. Then click OK.
New Document: Click OK and the modified document will be saved as a new document,
leaving the original document unchanged. In the pop-up Save As dialog box, complete the
settings and click Save. See also Save a local document to the iManage Work.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
179
Replace Original: Click OK and the modified document will overwrite the original document in
the iManage Work.
Note: By default, only New Version and New Document are displayed in the Save As Options
dialog box. To show the Replace Original option in the dialog box, add a new key to the Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Foxit\PhantomPDF 8.0\iManage\Preferences
Key Name: ReplaceOriginal
Type: DWORD Value: 1
Set the value data to 1 to display the Replace Original option; with the value of 0 or null, the
option will not be displayed.
Document properties
When you have checked out and opened a PDF document, you can click SHARE > iManage Work >
Properties to view the properties of the document.
OpenText eDOCS Integration
Within Foxit PhantomPDF, you can open, modify, and save PDF documents on eDOCS DM --- the
ECM solution used by many organizations to manage content, giving you quick and easy access to
documents on eDOCS DM to increase productivity.
Open PDFs on eDOCS DM
1. Click File > Open > Add a place > eDOCS DM. Before using PhantomPDF to open PDFs on
eDOCS DM, you are required to install DM Extension in your system if you haven’t.
2. Log in to your eDOCS DM account.
3. (Optional) If you have logged in before, the eDOCS DM item will be listed under the Open
menu. Then click File > Open > eDOCS DM > Open from DM.
4. In the Quick Retrieve dialog box, select the document you want to open and then it will be
checked out and opened with PhantomPDF. Then make your edits as needed with advanced
tools in PhantomPDF.
Save
To save a checked-out PDF document, you can choose to replace the original document in the
eDOCS DM, or save it as a new version, a new sub-version, or a new document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
180
1. After modification, go to File > Save As, click the eDOCS DM item listed under the Save As
menu and then click Save As. Or click Share > eDOCS DM > Save As (> Save As…).
2. In the Save As dialog box:
Choose New Version/ New Sub-version/ New Document: the modified document will
be saved as a new version/sub-version/document, leaving the original document
unchanged.
Choose Replace Original: the modified document will overwrite the original document
in eDOCS DM.
You can save a local PDF document as a new document or a new version to the eDOCS DM. Save
the changes you made in the document and then do the following:
To save as a new document, go to File > Save As, click the eDOCS DM item listed under the
Save As menu and then click Save As. Or click Share > eDOCS DM > Save As > Save As…. Then
type the document information as needed and click Save.
To save as a new version, click Share > eDOCS DM > Save As > Save As DM Version. Select a
document in eDOCS DM and save as a new version or sub-version of the document.
To add a password protection when saving a document, click Share > eDOCS DM > Save As >
Save with Options, and save the document to the eDOCS DM.
Document properties
When you have checked out and opened a PDF document in eDOCS DM, you can click Share >
eDOCS DM > Document Information to view the properties of the document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
181
Chapter 9 – Forms
Foxit PhantomPDF is extremely useful for form filling and form designing. Please read below for
more information.
Interactive Form and Non-interactive form
There are two kinds of “form” files. One is a PDF file with fillable fields, which enables you to fill
the form directly by clicking the form fields without using other features. This is called an
Interactive PDF Form. The other kind of form is a plain PDF file with lines and texts, which should
be filled with the typewriter feature in Foxit PhantomPDF. This is called a Non-interactive PDF Form.
Interactive Form
For interactive forms, you will see a message box appear in the top-right corner of the application
window. The message box informs you that this document is a fillable form. Click Hide to close the
message box. If you do not want to see it again when reopening this file, please choose File >
Preferences > Forms > Always hide document message bar. To show it, redo the steps.
Foxit PhantomPDF highlights the form fields in the document by default, which colors the
backgrounds of all blanks to be filled in and outlines any required blanks, making it easy to see
them at a glance. If you don’t need to highlight the fields, navigate to Form > Edit > uncheck
Highlight Fields.
Acro Form and XFA (XML Forms Architecture) Form
Foxit PhantomPDF now supports both Acro Form and XFA Form. You can fill in XFA forms with the
Hand command , the same which you were able to do with normal fillable forms (also known
as Acro Form).
Non-interactive Form
The document message box will not appear. This kind of form acts like an ordinary PDF document
that has plain text and you will need to use the Typewriter feature to fill in this form.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
182
Fill in PDF Forms
Foxit PhantomPDF not only allows you to fill in PDF forms and print them out, but also supports
advanced form operations, such as saving filled-out forms and importing/exporting forms data.
Fill Interactive Forms
If a PDF form contains interactive form fields, you can fill in the form with the Hand command .
When you place the pointer over an interactive form field, the pointer icon changes to one of the
following:
Hand icon -- Appears when mousing over a button, radio button, check box, or item on
a list.
I-beam icon -- Appears when you can type text into the form field.
To fill in an interactive form, please do the following:
If necessary, select the Hand command .
(Optional) To make form fields easier to identify, click the Highlight Fields in the document
message box. Form fields appear with a colored background (light blue by default).
Choose Form > Form Recognition > Run Form Field Recognition. Then click on the first form
field you want to fill in, either to select that option or to place an I-beam pointer in the
field so that you can start typing.
Right-click the text fields, and choose Paste or Select All to do other operations.
After making a selection or entering text, do any of the following:
A. Press Tab or Shift + Tab to accept the form field change and go to the next or previous
field.
B. Right-click the form field and press the Up arrow key to select the previous option in an
item of list, or press the Down arrow key to select the next option.
After you fill in the form fields, do one of the following:
A. Click the submit button if one exists. Clicking this button sends the form data to a
database across the web or over your company intranet.
B. Click Save icon on the toolbar, or choose File > Save.
C. Choose File > Save As, and specify a location for the copy.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
183
Clear a form entry
Click one of the form fields, and use the Backspace key or Delete key.
Reset unsaved form entries
Choose Form > Form Data > Reset Form .
Clear a form in a browser
Do either of the following:
Select the reset form button if one exists. You can’t undo this action.
Quit the browser, and start again.
Note: Clicking the web browser’s Reload or Refresh button, the Back or Go Back button, or following
a link to another page may not complete clearing the form.
Fill lengthy entries in forms
Some PDF forms can contain dynamic text fields, which changes the text you input in size to
accommodate the text fields. The text appears smaller and smaller when the words you type
exceed the current size of the field.
Spell-checking form entries
You can spell- check the text you typed in form fields after purchasing Foxit PhantomPDF if the
security settings allow.
If you have installed the Spell Checker, when you insert any English text in the form fields, the
spelling errors will be highlighted and underlined with squiggly lines.
To spell-check entries, do the following:
Right-click on the misspelled words and you will see a list of five suggested words.
Choose one of the suggested words to correct your input or ignore the squiggly line.
If all the suggested words are not the exact words you want to input, try to correct them with
other words.
Fill Non-interactive Forms
If a PDF form contains non-interactive form fields, you can fill in the form with the Typewriter
command. When you place the pointer over a non-interactive form field, the basic pointer icon
doesn’t change.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
184
Non-interactive PDF forms can be printed and filled in by hand. Or choose the Comment tab > the
Typewriter group > the Typewriter command to type information over the blank form fields
and then save or print a copy of the completed form. To use the Typewriter command to fill the
non-interactive forms and spell-check the entries, please refer to “Typewriter” .
You can also recognize form fields with the Run Form Field Recognition command and then
fill in forms with the Hand command.
Note: To add text before or after the form fields, you can either choose to use Edit > Edit Content >
Add Text or refer to the Typewriter.
Comment on Forms
You can comment on PDF forms, just like any other PDF. You can add comments only when the
form creator has extended these rights to the users.
Whether or not these comments are included when the form is submitted depends on how it is
submitted. For example, if you use Foxit PhantomPDF to print the form for mailing or faxing, the
comments do not appear. But if you attach the filled-in form to email as a complete PDF, the
comments are included. Also, you can send the comments separately as an email attachment.
See also “Chapter 7 - Comments”.
Manage Form Data
You can import form data from other file formats to a PDF form, or export form data on a PDF form
to other file formats. You can also export form data from multiple PDF forms to a CSV file. In
addition, for PDF forms with Ultraform technology, Foxit PhantomPDF supports to create and
display 2D barcode that contains form data you filled in.
Import/Export Form Data
To import and export form data is similar to the way of importing and exporting comment data.
However, this function is only for PDF interactive forms. All the options for importing and exporting
form data will be unavailable when you open other ordinary PDFs or non-interactive forms.
To learn how to import and export form data, please view “Import/Export Comments Data”.
You can also export form data to an existing CSV file by clicking Form > Form Data > Export >
Append to an Existing Sheet. In the Open dialog box, select a CSV file you want to append the form
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
185
data to and click Open. A Foxit PhantomPDF message will pop up to prompt that the form data has
been exported successfully and let you decide whether to open the file.
Tip: You can import PDF form data from FDF, XFDF, TXT, XML, or CSV files, or export form data to a
FDF, XFDF, TXT, XML, or CSV files.
Combine forms to a sheet
To export form data from multiple PDF forms to a CSV file, please do as following:
1. Choose Form > Form Data > Combine Forms to a Sheet.
2. In the Export multi-forms to a sheet dialog box, click Add Files to add files that you want to
combine into a sheet. You can also click Close button in the dialog box to remove files.
3. (Optional) Check the option Contain forms you closed recently to add the PDF files you closed
recently. You can also append the exported form data to an existing file by checking the option
Append to an existing file.
4. Click Export. In the Save As dialog box, specify a folder and file name (“data source.csv” by
default) for the CSV file and click Save. A Foxit PhantomPDF message will pop up to prompt that
the form data has been exported successfully and let you decide whether to open the file.
Generate 2D Barcode
For forms integrated with Ultraforms technology, Foxit PhantomPDF supports the generation of 2D
barcodes, making the form data easily to be scanned, captured and incorporated into a database.
Steps are as follows:
Open and fill in the form.
Upon completion, click the barcode generation button (if any) on the form file to generate 2D
barcode.
Click the save button on the Quick Access Toolbar to save the form.
(If needed) Choose File > Print to print the form; and then you can use a supported scanner
to scan, read and incorporate the form data into a database.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
186
Note:
1. Currently, Foxit PhantomPDF only supports the generation of 2D barcode for forms integrated
with Ultraforms technology.
2. The triggering method for 2D barcode generation may vary as the form creator may define
when integrating Ultraforms technology into the form file. You can click the barcode generation
button (if there is any) on the form file, or choose Print directly to generate 2D barcode.
Form Fields
Foxit PhantomPDF uses a group of buttons that can be used to create and design form fields in
interactive forms. You are able to add push buttons, text fields, check boxes, combo boxes, list
boxes or radio buttons to create an interactive PDF form and specify their properties.
Create Interactive Forms
You can either create an entirely new interactive form from a blank page or add form fields to an
existing electronic form.
To start from a blank page, please do the following:
Create a blank PDF from File > Create > Blank, or choose Convert > Create > Blank.
Open the blank page with Foxit PhantomPDF, and then add form fields.
To create forms from non-interactive table:
Open it with Foxit PhantomPDF and choose Form > Form Recognition > Run Form Field
Recognition . All fillable fields in the document will be recognized and highlighted.
Add form fields from Form > Form Fields > click a type of form field button and the cursor
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
187
changes to crosshair . And the Designer Assistant is selected automatically.
All the corresponding type of form fields will be automatically named with the text near the
form fields (Take the text fields for an example as below).
Click the place you want to add the form field. To edit the form field further, please refer to
the properties of different buttons from “Buttons”.
Creating Text Fields
Buttons
There are seven basic buttons to add form fields for you to create an interactive PDF form:
Button
Tool Name
Description
Push
Button
Creates an interactive form element to initiate certain predefined actions,
such as opening a file, submitting data to a web server, or resetting a form.
This button can also be customized with images and text.
Check Box
Presents yes-or-no choices for individual items. If the form contains
multiple check boxes, users can select what they want.
Radio
Button
Presents a group of choices from which the user can select only one item.
Combo
Box
Lets the user either choose an item from a pop-up menu or type in a value.
List Box
Displays a list of options the user can select.
Text Field
Lets the user type in text, such as name, address, phone number, etc.
Signature
Field
Creates a blank digital signature field for reviewers to sign the document
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
188
A PDF Form
Push Button
Create a new push button
Choose Form > Form Fields > Push Button , and your cursor changes into . Then do the
following:
Drag an area in the desired place to create a push button.
A box appears under the button for you to input the button name and the name of label.
You can also click the All Properties to do more settings.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
189
Move and resize a push button
To move a push button, select the Select Annotation command or push button , click
and drag the button to move it to a new location.
To resize a push button, select the Select Annotation command or push button , click to
select the button, and then drag a border handle.
Delete a push button
Select the Select Annotation command or push button , and click the push button you
want to delete.
Press Delete, or right-click the push button > Delete.
Create multiple copies of a push button
You can create multiple copies of a push button. The new push button names are based on the
original push buttons and appended with a number. However, you are able to create them with
the same names. In addition, all the new push buttons are created sequentially, using standard
array format.
With the Select Annotation command or push button , select one or more push
buttons that you want to copy (press Shift or Ctrl when clicking to select more buttons).
Right-click one of the buttons > Create Multiple Copies…
In the Create Multiple Copies of Fields dialog box, do the following:
A. To specify the rows to be created, enter or select a number in Copy Selected fields down
(times). The default number is set to 2.
B. To specify the columns to be created, enter or select a number in Copy Selected fields
across (times). The default number is set to 2.
C. To specify the width of the area in which the columns of fields appear, enter or select a
number in Change Width (in). The default number is set to 0.04.
D. To specify the height of the area in which the columns of fields appear, enter or select a
number in Change Height (in). The default number is set to 0.04.
Note: The width and height values don’t change the dimensions of individual fields but
designate the size of the entire area for all the selected and newly created fields.
E. To change the position of buttons, use the Up, Down, Left, and Right buttons in the dialog
box.
F. Click Preview to apply the results.
G. Click Same Name to apply the names of original buttons to the newly created buttons.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
190
Click OK.
Note: Copies of push buttons function independently of each other. You can use a different
procedure to duplicate push buttons, creating an information- sharing relationship among
these buttons.
Duplicate a push button across multiple pages
Select the push button that you want to duplicate.
Right-click the button > Duplicate…
Note: The Duplicate command isn’t available for forms with only one page.
Then do one of the following:
A. To duplicate the push button on every page in the form, select All, and click OK.
B. To duplicate the push button on odd/even page in the form, select Odd pages or Even
pages, and click OK.
C. To duplicate the push button on a limited range of pages, type the starting and ending
page on which you want the button to appear. Click OK.
Note: Enter the page number including or not including the page on which the button originally
appears doesn’t affect the duplication process. Including that page won’t create a second copy
on top of the original one, and not including it won’t remove the original button.
Set tab order
You can set the tab order of the buttons you created. The order number will show on the top left
corner. By default, the tab order is based on the document structure. Please do any of the following
to set tab order:
Click the Manage form fields panel in the Navigation Pane. Click Set Order button
in the upper-right corner of the Manage form fields panel and choose to order tabs by
row/column/structure. Check Show tab numbers to view the tab order. You can also change
the tab order by dragging and dropping a field to the desired place within the Manage form
fields panel. You can only move one field at a time.
Click the page thumbnails panel in in the Navigation Pane. Right-click the page where
you need to change the tab order and choose Properties…. In the Page Properties dialog box,
select one order in the Tab Order tab.
With the Select Annotation command selected, right-click a form field, and choose Set
Tab Order. Click anywhere in the field that you want it to be the first in the tabbing order. The
number in the upper left corner will be set as 1. Click each of the other fields in the order that
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
191
you want tabbing to occur.
Note: You can only set tab order within one page.
Set push button properties
You can set properties that apply formatting, determine the appearance and actions, and so forth.
The push button has a General tab, Appearance tab, an Options tab, and an Actions tab. Besides,
there are two items on every tab:
Locked – When selected, prevents any further changes to any push button properties.
Close – Applies and saves the current button properties, and closes the button properties
dialog box.
Note: If you select Locked on any tab, it will lock all options for the button, but not just the options
on that tab.
1. General tab for the button properties
The General tab in push button properties contains the following options:
Name – Specifies the unique name of the selected push button.
Tooltip – Displays text that the hesitant user may find helpful in clicking the button. Tooltips
appear when the pointer hovers over the push button.
Form Field – Specifies whether the push button can be seen, either on screen or in print. There
are four choices for you: Visible, Hidden, Visible but doesn’t print, and Hidden but printable.
Orientation – Rotates the push button by 0, 90, 180, or 270 Degrees.
Read Only – Prevents the user from clicking the push button.
Required – This option is not available for the push button.
2. Appearance tab for the button properties
The Appearance properties determine how the push button looks on the page. The Appearance
tab in push button properties contains the following options:
Line Style – Alters the appearance of the frame. Select Solid, Dashed, Beveled, Inset or
Underline.
Solid Dashed Beveled Inset Underline
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
192
The appearances of Push Button with different line styles
Note: You may not see the difference if no color is chosen as the border color.
Thickness – Specifies the width of the frame surrounding the push button: Thin, Medium, or
Thick.
Border Color – Opens a color picker in which you can select a color for the frame surrounding
the button. To leave the button without a frame, select No color.
Fill Color – Opens a color picker in which you can select a color for the button. To leave the
button uncolored, select No color.
Note: A Fill Color choice other than No color will block any images on the PDF page that are behind
the button.
Font Size – Sets the size of the label for the button. You can either choose Auto, various preset
values, or type in a different value.
Text Color – Opens a color picker in which you can select a color for the label.
Font – Lists the fonts available on your computer.
Push Button
3. Options tab for the button properties
The Options properties determine how labels and icons appear on the button. A button can have
a label, an icon, or both. The Options tab in push button properties enables you to add any labels
you like. The Options tab in push button properties contains the following options:
Layout – Specifies the layout of label and icon of the button. There are seven choices:
A B C D E F G
A. Label only B. Icon only C. Icon top, label bottom D. Label top, icon bottom E. Icon left, label right F. Label
left, icon right G. Label over icon
Button Layouts
Advanced – Does the details settings to the icon.
Font Size: 30
Text Color: Green
Font: Times New Roman
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
193
A. When to scale – choose when to scale the icon you insert. There are four options:
Always: scale the icon to fit the button you draw.
Never: never scale the icon. Show the icon with its original size all the time.
Icon is too Big: zoom out the icon to fit the button if the former one is bigger than the
latter one, or show the icon with its original size.
Icon is too Small: zoom in the icon to fit the button if the former one is smaller than the
latter one, or show the icon with its original size.
B. Scale – choose to scale the icon non-proportionally or proportionally. This option will be
disabled when you select Never in the field of When to scale.
Proportionally: scale the icon in its proportion.
Non-proportionally: scale the icon to fit the button when the magnification is changed.
C. Fit to bounds – check this option to scale the icon to fit fully within the bounds of the
button without taking into consideration the line width of the border.
D. Border – drag and move the scroll bar to change icon’s position in the button. The
coordinates change when you move the scroll bar.
Behavior – Specifies the display of the button when clicked. The button behavior options
include:
None: Keeps the appearance of the button the same.
Push: Specifies appearances for the Up, Down, and Rollover states of the mouse. Select an
option under State, and then specify a label or icon option:
Up: Determines what the button looks like when the mouse button is not clicked.
Down: Determines what the button looks like when the mouse is clicked on the button,
but before it is released.
Rollover: Determines what the button looks like when the pointer is held over the button.
Outline: Highlights the button border.
Invert: Reverses the dark and light shades of the button.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
194
The Button Behaviors
To define the label or icon that appears on the button, do the following:
A. If a label option is selected from the Layout menu, type the text in the Label box.
B. If an icon option is selected from the Layout menu, click Choose icon… > click Browse… >
Select the file type from the Objects of Type menu, double-click the file name, and click
OK. (To remove the selected icon, click Clear button.)
Click Close to accept these display properties.
4. Actions tab for the button properties
The Actions properties specify any actions that you want to associate with the push button, such
as jumping to a specific page or going to a web site. The Actions tab in push button properties
contains the following options:
Select Trigger – Specifies the user action that initiates an action: Mouse Up, Mouse Down,
Mouse Enter, Mouse Exit, On Receiving Focus, or On Losing Focus.
Select Action – Specifies the event that occurs when the user triggers the action: Go to a page
view, Open/execute a file, Open a web link, Show/hide a field, Execute a menu item, Submit
a form, Reset a form, Import form data, and Run a JavaScript.
A. Go to a page view – designate to a specific page view. You can not only designate to a
page in the current PDF, but also to the page in another PDF. Also, you may change the
current zoom setting and then set the position.
To go to a page view, choose this option, click Add button and do one of the following:
a) Set the position in current document – scroll the current document, go to a new position
where you want to set and click Set this position.
b) Set the position in another PDF document – click the Open button on the toolbar > select
the PDF you want to set position > scroll this document and go to a position where you
want to set > click Set this position.
Note: The new PDF document should be opened in the existing window but not a new window.
c) Change the view magnification -- scroll in the current document or another document >
go to a new position where you want to set > change the magnification of the position >
Push
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
195
click Set this position.
d) Click Cancel to revoke your operation.
B. Open/execute a file – designate to open another file. To do this, choose Open/execute a
file > click Add button > select the destination file and click Select.
C. Open a web link – designate to open a web link. To do this, choose Open a web link >
click Add button > enter the URL of the destination web page.
D. To show/hide a field, select the option > click Add… > choose to show or hide the selected
button when the user triggers the action, and click OK.
E. To execute a menu item, select the option > click Add… > select one of the items in Menu
Item Selection dialog box, and click OK.
F. To submit a form, select the option > click Add… > choose the export format, submission
method, decide which fields should be submitted, and click OK.
G. To reset a form, select the option > click Add… > select the fields that will be reset, and
click OK.
H. To import form data, select the option > click Add… > choose the FDF file that contains
the form data you want to import, and click Open.
I. To run a JavaScript, select the option > click Add… > enter JavaScript, and click OK and
Close.
Actions – Displays the list of triggers and actions that you have defined.
Up and down buttons – Change the order in which the selected action appears listed under
the trigger. (Available only when you have defined multiple actions for the same trigger.)
Edit – Opens a dialog box with specific options for the selected action. You can also double-
click the actions to open a dialog box.
Delete – Removes the selected action.
Set push button properties as default
After setting button properties for a new push button, you can set your settings as the new default
for all the push buttons you create in future. To set the current properties as default, right-click the
push button > select Use Current Properties as New Defaults.
Check Box Button
A check box button is a button to present yes-or-no choices for individual items. For creating,
moving, resizing, deleting, creating multiple copies, duplicating a check box button and setting tab
order, please refer to “Push button”.
Set Check Box Button Properties
There are also four tabs a General tab, Appearance tab, an Options tab, and an Actions tab for you
to set check box button’s properties.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
196
For General tab, Appearance tab and an Actions tab, please refer to Set Push Button Properties.
Options tab
Check Box Style - Specifies the style of the check box button. There are six choices:
A B C D E F
Check Box Style
A. Check B. Circle C. Cross D. Diamond E. Square F. Star
Export Value - Identifies the check box button and differentiates it from other check box buttons
that share the same Name value.
Checked by default – Sets the selection state of the button when the user first opens the form.
Note:
1. If you create multiple copies of the check box button, please make sure both the form field
names and the export value are all different in related check boxes.
2. If the check box buttons in a group have the same form field name but with different export
values, the check box buttons will present a group of choices from which the user can select
only one item.
Radio Button
A radio button is a type of graphical user interface widget that allows you to choose one of a
predefined set of options. For creating, moving, resizing, deleting, duplicating the buttons and
setting tab order please refer to “Push button”.
Tip: How to toggle radio buttons
For the radio buttons in a group, they should have the same form field name but with different
export values. This ensures that the radio buttons toggle and that the correct values will be
collected in the database.
1. Please use copy-paste to create multiple copies if having more than one form field with the
same name. After this, to make the value usable, you have to change the value of the radio
buttons to make sure all radio buttons have the same field name but different export value.
2. Please note you cannot use “Create Multiple Copies” option if there is more than one radio
button with the same name. A warning message will pop up if you right click and choosing
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
197
Create Multiple Copies.
Set radio button properties
How a radio button behaves is determined by settings in the Radio Button Properties dialog box.
You can set properties that apply formatting, determine the appearance and actions, and so forth.
The radio button has a General tab, Appearance tab, Actions tab, and an Options tab as push button.
Also, there are two items on every tab:
Locked – When selected, prevents any further changes to any radio button properties.
Close – Applies and saves the current button properties, and closes the button properties
dialog box.
Note: If you select Locked on any tab, it will lock all options for the button, but not just the options
on that tab.
1. General tab for the radio button properties
The General tab in radio button properties contains the following options:
Name – Specifies the unique name of the selected radio button.
Tooltip – Displays text that the hesitant user may find helpful in clicking the button. Tooltips
appear when the pointer hovers over the radio button.
Form Field – Specifies whether the radio button can be seen, either on screen or in print.
There are four choices for you: Visible, Hidden, Visible but does not print, and Hidden but
printable.
Orientation – Rotates the radio button by 0, 90, 180, or 270 Degrees.
Read Only – Prevents the user from clicking the radio button.
Required – Forces the user to click the radio button. If the user attempts to submit the form
while a required radio button is not chosen, an error message appears.
2. Appearance tab for the radio button properties
The Appearance properties determine how the radio button looks on the page. The Appearance
tab in push button properties contains the following options:
Line Style – Alters the appearance of the frame. Select Solid, Dashed, Beveled, Inset or
Underline.
Solid Dashed Beveled Inset Underline
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
198
The appearances of Radio Button with different line styles
Note: You may not see the difference if no color is chosen as the border color.
Thickness – Specifies the width of the frame surrounding the radio button: Thin, Medium, or
Thick.
Border Color – Opens a color picker in which you can select a color for the frame surrounding
the button. To leave the button without a frame, select No color.
Fill Color – Opens a color picker in which you can select a color for the background behind the
button. To leave the background uncolored, select No color.
Note: A Fill Color choice other than No color will block any images on the PDF page that are behind
the button.
Text Color – Opens a color picker in which you can select a color for the button.
Radio Button
Note
：
The items of Font Size and Font are not available in the Appearance tab for the Radio Button
properties.
3. Actions tab for the radio button properties
Please refer to “Actions tab for the button properties” .
4. Options tab for the radio button properties
The Options tab in radio button properties enables you to change the button style and do other
additional settings. The Options tab in radio button properties contains the following options:
Button style – Specifies the shape of the maker that appears inside the button when the user
selects it. There’re six choices in total: Check, Circle (the default), Cross, Diamond, Square, or
Star. This property does not alter the shape of the radio button itself.
Export Value – Identifies the radio button and differentiates it from other radio buttons that
share the same Name value. The status of a radio button is “yes”. You can give them other
names with this box.
Checked by default – Sets the selection state of the button when the user first opens the form.
Radio buttons with the same name and value are selected in unison – Allows single-click
selection of multiple related radio buttons. If the user selects a radio button that has the same
field name and export value as another, both radio buttons are selected.
Border color
Text color
Fill color
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
199
Click Close to accept these display properties.
Set radio button properties as default
After setting radio button properties for a new radio button, you can set your settings as the new
default for all the radio buttons you create in future.
To set the current properties as default, right-click the radio button, select Use Current Properties
as New Defaults.
Combo Box Button
A combo box is a commonly-used GUI widget. It is a combination of a drop-down list or list box and
a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly into the control or choose
from the list of existing options.
For creating, moving, resizing, deleting, duplicating the combo box and setting tab order, please
refer to “Push button”.
Set combo box properties
How a combo box behaves is determined by settings in the Combo Box Properties dialog box. You
can set properties that apply formatting, determine the appearance and actions, perform
mathematical operations, and so forth.
The combo box has a General tab, an Appearance tab, an Options tab, a Format tab, a Validate tab,
a Calculate tab and an Actions tab,. There are two items on every tab:
Locked – When selected, prevents any further changes to any combo box properties.
Close – Applies and saves the current properties, and closes the combo box properties dialog
box.
Note: If you select Locked on any tab, it will lock all options for this combo box, but not just the
options on that tab.
1. General tab for the combo box properties
Please refer to “General tab for the radio button properties” .
2. Appearance tab for the combo box properties
Please refer to “Appearance tab for the button properties” .
3. Actions tab for the combo box properties
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
200
Please refer to “Actions tab for the button properties” .
4. Options tab for the combo box properties
You can create a list of items from which the user selects with the Options tab.
Item – Accepts the text and space character that you type for options that you want to appear
in the menu for the field.
Add – Moves the current entry in Item to Item List.
Export value – Where you type in a value to represent the item if the data will be exported. If
left blank, the entry for Name in the General tab is used as the export value.
Item list – Displays the choices that will be available in the list.
Note: The highlighted item in the Item List box appears as the default selected item in the combo
box field. To change the default item, highlight another item from the list.
Delete – Removes the selected item from the list.
Up/Down – Change the order in which the items are listed in the combo box list. These buttons
are not available if Sort Items is selected.
Sort items – Arranges the listed items numerically and alphabetically. A numerical sort (if
applicable) is performed before an alphabetical sort.
Allow user to enter custom text – Enable users to enter a value other than the ones in the list.
Commit selected value immediately – Saves the value as soon as the user selects it. If this
option is not selected, the value is saved only when the user tabs out of the current field or
clicks another form field.
5. Format tab for the combo box properties
The Format tab in the combo box properties dialog box enables you to format the field values.
Select one of the categories listed below:
None – No additional options are available. The input in a combo box with this property does
not require any specific formatting.
Number – Automatically imposes the selected formatting options on numeric data entries.
A. Decimal places – Sets the number of digits that appear to the right of the decimal point.
B. Separator style – Sets the placement of commas and periods.
C. Currency symbol – Sets the type of currency, such as Dollars, Euros, or Pounds.
D. Negative Number Style – Sets how negative numbers are displayed. You can choose Show
parentheses, Use red text, neither, or both.
Percentage – Automatically imposes the selected formatting options on numeric data
expressed as a percentage.
A. Decimal places – Sets the number of digits that appear to the right of the decimal point.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
201
B. Separator style – Sets the placement of commas and periods.
Date – The list includes one-, two-, and four-digit variations where d stands for the day, m
stands for the month, and y stands for the year. Also, you can choose Custom option and type
your format.
Time – The list includes display variations where h stands for the hour on a 12-hour clock, H
stands for the hour on a 24-hour clock, MM stands for minutes, ss stands for the seconds, and
tt stands for AM or PM. Also, you can choose the Custom option and type your format.
Special – There are five options for you:
A. Zip Code – For a five-digit postal code.
B. Zip Code + 4 – For a nine-digit postal code.
C. Phone Number – For a ten-digit telephone number.
D. Social Security Number – For a nine-digit US Social Security Number.
E. Arbitrary Mask -- Changes the format category to Custom and makes another text box
available, in which you can type a custom format. Use this option to specify which types
of characters the user can enter in any given position, and how the data displays in the
field.
a. A -- Accepts only letters (A–Z, a–z).
b. X -- Accepts spaces and most printable characters, including all characters available
on a standard keyboard and ANSI characters in the ranges of 32–126 and 128–255.
c. O -- The letter “O” accepts alphanumeric characters (A–Z, a–z, and 0–9).
d. 9 -- Accepts only numeric characters (0–9).
For example, a mask setting of AAA--p#999 accepts the input BDF--p#367. A mask setting
of OOOOO@XXX accepts the input vad12@3Up.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
202
Example of an Arbitrary Mask entry
Custom -- Makes additional options available to form designers who want to write their own
JavaScripts for formatting and keystrokes. For example, a custom script could define a new
currency format or limit the user entry to specific keystroke characters.
A. Custom Format Script – Displays any custom scripts you have added for formats. The Edit
button opens a JavaScript Edition dialog box in which you can write and add new scripts.
B. Custom Keystroke Script –Displays any custom scripts you have added to validate
keystrokes. The Edit button opens a JavaScript Edition dialog box in which you can write
and add new scripts.
6. Validate tab for the combo box properties
The Validate properties restrict entries to specified ranges, values, or characters, ensuring that
users enter the appropriate data for a combo box.
Field value is not validated – Turns off validation.
Field value is in range – Sets a numeric range for a combo box using values you enter in either
as a number or a percentage. It is available only when Number or Percentage is selected in
Format tab.
Run custom validation script – Validates by a JavaScript that you create or provide. The Edit
button opens a JavaScript Edition dialog box in which you can write and add new scripts.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
203
7. Calculate tab for the combo box properties
With this option, you can perform mathematical operations on existing form field entries and
display the result.
Value is not calculated – Select this option if you want the users to type.
Value is the – Select this to make further options available:
A. The List includes the mathematical functions to apply to the selected fields. Choose Sum
to add the values entered in the selected fields, Product to multiply them, Average,
Minimum, or Maximum.
B. Pick – Opens a Field Selection dialog box with a list of the available fields in the form that
you select to add or deselect to remove from the calculation.
Simplified field notation -- Uses JavaScript with field names and simple arithmetic signs. The
Edit button opens a JavaScript Edition dialog box in which you can write, edit, and add scripts.
Custom calculation script -- Displays any custom scripts you have added for calculations. The
Edit button opens a JavaScript Edition dialog box in which you can write and add new scripts.
Set combo box properties as default
After setting combo box properties for a new combo box, you can set your settings as the new
default for all the combo boxes you create in future.
To set the current properties as default, right-click the combo box > select Use Current Properties
as New Defaults.
List Box and Text Field Button
A list box is a GUI widget that allows the user to select one or more items from a list contained
within a static, multiple line text box. Also, you can set a list box property that enables the user to
Shift-click or Ctrl-click/Control-click to select multiple items on the list.
A text field is a common element of graphical user interface of computer programs, as well as the
corresponding type of widget used when programming GUIs, which let the user type in text, such
as name, address, phone number, etc.
For creating, moving, resizing, deleting, duplicating the list box and text field and setting tab order
please refer to “Push button”.
Set list box properties
Please refer to “Set combo box properties”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
204
Set text field properties
Although most of the properties are common to those of combo boxes, the Options tab is exclusive.
1. For all the other properties of a text field, please refer to “Set combo box properties”.
2. Options tab for the text field properties
Alignment – Aligns the text left, right, or center within the field.
Default Value – Specifies the text that appears until the user overwrites it by typing in the field.
Enter the default value by typing in this option.
Scroll long text – Compensates for text that extends beyond the boundaries of the text field.
Allow Rich Text Formatting – Allows users to apply styling information to the text, such as bold
or italic. This might be useful in certain text fields where such styling information is important
to the meaning of the text, such as an essay.
Limit of Characters – Allows entries of up to the number of characters you specify.
Note: If you entered a default value, that value is clipped to this limit.
Password – Displays the user-entered text as a series of asterisks (*). This option is available
only if Check Spelling is deselected.
Field is used for file selection – Allows the user to enter a file path as the field’s value when a
file is submitted along with the form. This option is available only when Scroll long text is the
only selected option in the Options tab.
Check spelling – Checks the spelling of user-entered text.
Comb of Characters -- Spreads the user-entered text evenly across the width of the text field.
If a border color is specified, Solid or Dashed Line is selected in the Appearance tab, each
character entered in the field is separated by lines of that color. This option is available only
when no other check box is selected.
A B
Text fields with and without the Comb property
A. Text field with a border color, using the Comb property
B. Text field without the Comb property
Multi-line – Allows more than a single-line entry in the text field. Setting line spacing is
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
205
available in a multi-line text field.
Set text field properties as default
To set the current properties as default, right-click the text field > select Use Current Properties
as New Defaults.
Signature Field Button
The signature field is specially designed by to create blank digital signature fields for reviewers to
sign. You can place the field anywhere you want the reviewers to sign.
Create a new Signature field
Choose Form > Form Fields > Signature Field button , your cursor will change into and do
the following:
Drag an area in the desired place to create a signature field button.
A box appears under the button for you to input the name.
You can also click the All Properties to do more settings. Or double-click the button to open
the signature Properties dialog box.
For moving, resizing, deleting, duplicating the signature field and setting tab order, please refer to
“Push button”.
To set signature field’s General, Appearance and Actions tab properties, please refer to “Set push
button properties”.
Foxit PhantomPDF supports to sign and verify digital signatures on XFA forms created by Adobe
LiveCycle. To sign and verify digital signatures, please refer to Digital Signature.
Signed tab for the signature field properties
Nothing Happens When Signed – it is set as default.
Mark As Read-Only - Prevents other readers to change the digitally signed form.
All Fields - Prevents any changes to any form field.
All Fields Except These - Allows changing the selected form fields. Click the Pick
button and select check boxes for the fields that you want the reviewers to edit
after signing.
Just These Fields – Prevent to change the form fields you pick.
This Script Executes When Field is Signed:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
206
Activate a custom JavaScript when the user digitally signs the form. Click the Edit button to
change or create a new JavaScript action.
Arrange form fields
You can arrange form fields in a page, such as aligning, centering and distributing form fields. Before
arranging form fields, select multiple form fields.
Select multiple form fields
To arrange the form fields, you have to select multiple form fields that you want to arrange first.
To select multiple form fields, do one of the following:
Choose the Select Annotation command > Shift-click or Ctrl-click each form field.
Choose the Select Annotation command > drag a selection marquee around the area to
select them.
To deselect an individual form field, Ctrl-click the specific field.
Note: The form field highlighted in red is the anchor. When you select multiple form fields by clicking,
the last field selected is the anchor.
Align multiple form fields
You can align the selected form fields left, right, top, bottom, vertically or horizontally. Select one
of the form fields as the anchor, the rest of the form fields will be placed respectively to the left
edge, right edge, top edge, bottom edge, vertical axis or horizontal axis of the anchor form field.
Select two or more form fields that you want to align and do one of the following:
Right-click the anchor, choose Form > Edit > Arrange, and in the Alignment category select one
to align the form fields.
Right-click the anchor, and then choose a command as follows:
A. To align a column of form fields, choose Left, Right, or Vertically to align them respectively
to the left edge, right edge, or vertical axis of the anchor form field.
B. To align a row of form fields, choose Top, Bottom, or Horizontally to align them respectively
to the top edge, bottom edge, or horizontal axis of the anchor form field.
Note: When you right-click or Ctrl-click one of the selected form fields, it will be highlighted in red,
indicating that it’s the anchor form field. The align menu commands move the other selected form
fields to line up with the edges of the anchor form fields.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
207
Center multiple form fields
This function enables you to center the rectangle enclosed by form. Select form fields. You can
imagine that these form fields consist of an area with the shape of rectangle. Then do one of the
following:
Choose Form > Edit > Arrange, in the Page Center category select one as the anchor to center
the form fields.
Right-click one of the form fields > Center > Vertically/Horizontally/Both. You will find that
the rectangle is centered respectively vertically, horizontally or both in the page.
Distribute multiple form fields
This function will be available when selecting three or more form fields. Select the form fields to
be distributed, and do one of following:
Choose Form > Edit > Arrange, in the Distribute category select one as the anchor to distribute
the form fields.
To distribute the form fields evenly between the topmost and bottommost form fields, choose
Distribute > Vertically. To distribute the form fields evenly between the leftmost and
rightmost form fields, choose Distribute > Horizontally.
Resize multiple form fields
Select one of the form fields as the anchor, and the rest of the form fields will be resized with the
same height or width as that of the anchor form field. For example,
Select form field A and B with the Select Annotation command . Suppose that you want to
set A as the anchor form field.
Right-click A > Size > Height/Width/Both. And you’ll see that the height/width/height and
width of B is resized to be the same as that of A.
Set Form-field Tab Order
Please refer to Set Tab Order of Push Button.
Page templates
Page templates can be used to fill a PDF form where users need to add more pages if they still have
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
208
info to enter. Or, an official organization like Customs creates a page template which contains
several buttons with JavaScript actions that corresponding forms will appear when users click on
different buttons to fill in forms based on different situations.
Create a page template
1. Navigate to a page that you want to create a page template from.
2. Click Form > Edit > Page Template.
3. In the Page Templates dialog box, enter the name and click Add.
4. Click OK.
5. The name of the created template will be listed in the dialog box, and you can preview it on
the left of the dialog box by checking the box to the left of the template name.
6. Click Close to exit the Page Templates dialog box.
Manage page templates
In the Page Templates dialog box, choose a template and click Goto to navigate to the page. You
can also rename, replace, and delete page templates.
Rename a page template
1. Click Form > Edit > Page Template.
2. In the Page Templates dialog box, choose the template you want to rename, click Rename and
click OK.
3. Type a new name in the pop-up dialog box and click OK.
4. Click Close to exit the Page Templates dialog box.
Replace a page template
1. Navigate to a desired page.
2. Click Form > Edit > Page Template.
3. In the Page Templates dialog box, choose the template you want to replace, click Replace and
click OK.
4. Click Close to exit the Page Templates dialog box.
Delete a page template
1. Click Form > Edit > Page Template.
2. In the Page Templates dialog box, choose the template you want to delete, click Delete and
click OK.
3. Click Close to exit the Page Templates dialog box.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
209
Set the field calculation order
When you define two or more calculations in a form, the order in which they are carried out is the
order in which you set the calculations. In some cases, you may need to modify the calculation
order to obtain correct results.
For example, if you want to use the results obtained from calculating two form fields to calculate
the value of a third form field, the first two form fields must be calculated together first to obtain
the correct results.
Choose Form > Edit > Calculation Order .
The Calculation Order dialog box displays all calculable fields in your form and the order in which
the calculations are performed.
To change the field calculation order, select the field from the list, and then click the Up or
Down button as needed.
Click OK to finish.
Edit Static XFA Forms
Foxit PhantomPDF supports editing of static XFA forms.
To edit static XFA forms, please do as below:
1. Open the static XFA form with Foxit PhantomPDF and choose Form > Edit > Edit Static XFA Form
. You’ll be prompted to save a copy of the original file to continue to edit.
2. Click Yes to edit the form as needed.
Set properties of multiple form fields
Select multiple form fields > right-click one of them > Properties….
There pops up a dialog with a General tab and an Appearance tab, and then follow the steps
specified above.
JavaScript
JavaScript is a dynamic, prototype-based language with first-class functions, which serves as a
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
210
means to easily create interactive web pages. In Foxit PhantomPDF, you can easily integrate this
level of interactivity into your PDF documents.
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can invoke JavaScript code using actions associated with documents,
bookmarks, links, and pages. Foxit PhantomPDF provides three options –Document JavaScript,
Document Action and JavaScript Console. The Document JavaScript lets you create or access
document level scripts in Foxit PhantomPDF. The Document Action lets you create document-level
JavaScript actions that apply to the entire document. The JavaScript Console provides an
interactive and convenient interface for testing portions of JavaScript code and experimenting with
object properties and methods.
Document JavaScript
Document JavaScripts are variable and function definitions that are generally useful to a given
document, but are not applicable outside the document.
Variable definitions: Define variables at the document level to make them visible to any
executing script.
Function definitions: Define functions at the document level that support the user interaction
with the document. These functions may be utility functions for handling common tasks for
string or number manipulation, or functions that execute lengthy scripts called by actions
initiated by a user interacting with form fields, bookmarks, page changes, etc.
To create or access document level scripts in Foxit PhantomPDF, select Form > JavaScript >
Document JavaScript. The pop-up Java Script Functions dialog box enables you to add, edit, or
delete document level scripts. All the document level scripts are stored within the PDF document.
In Java Script Functions dialog box, you will see the following buttons:
Close – Closes the dialog box.
Add – After typing a new Script Name, a JavaScript Editor dialog box pops up. You can create
and edit document level scripts here. To change the font of JavaScripts, click the Font button.
Edit – The JavaScript Editor dialog box pops up, enabling you to modify the JavaScripts you
create.
Delete – Delete the JavaScript you selected.
Document Action
You can create the document-level JavaScript actions that apply to the entire document. For
example, selecting Document Did Save runs the JavaScript after a document is saved.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
211
JavaScript Console
JavaScript Console is a control panel for the execution and debugging of JavaScript code. Serving
as a debugging aid, it is quite useful for displaying debug messages and executing JavaScript. To
active the JavaScript console, select Form> JavaScript > JavaScript Console, and do the following:
You can click Save to save a copy of your JavaScript code, or click Cancel to revoke your operation.
Optional Database connectivity to Windows ODBC
The Optional Database Connectivity plug-in is a JavaScript object inside Foxit PhantomPDF, allowing
you to connect to Windows ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) data sources. It provides some
basic JavaScript properties and methods to gain increased customization options and data accuracy
to access to information databases. More importantly, JavaScript can be used to execute SQL
commands and retrieve data, which can, in turn, be used to populate a PDF file. Also, developers
can create document level-scripts to connect to a database for the purposes of inserting new data,
updating information, and deleting database entries.
A. In the pop-up JavaScript Console
dialog box, type your JavaScript
code, or click Open and select one
of the file with JS format.
B. Click Run button to run your
JavaScript code. You will be
prompted that the code has run
successfully. When the code goes
wrong, it gives you an error
message.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
212
Chapter 10 – Security
The security feature of PDF gives you an exceptional control over your PDF files. To provide
adequate protection for PDF’s contents, you can encrypt and secure PDF files to prevent
unauthorized access, restrict sensitive operations, etc.
Check PDF Security
Some PDF files may contain restrictions preventing actions such as printing, editing, copying, etc.
To check if you have these permissions, please do the following:
Choose File > Properties > Security, or Protect > Secure Document > Security Properties.
Password Protection & Certificate Protection
In Foxit PhantomPDF, you can add password protection, certificate protection, and security
restrictions to a PDF or PDF portfolio, limiting who can open the file, can copy, edit or print the file,
etc. However, the protection in a secured PDF portfolio does not apply to the PDF files in it, so for
the component PDFs in a PDF portfolio, if you need to add or remove protection, open the
component PDFs and then add/remove protection.
Password Protection
You can add a password to a PDF to limit access and restrict certain features, such as printing,
copying and editing.
There are two kinds of passwords that could be applied to a PDF file: a Document Open password
and a Permissions password. When you set a Document Open password, anyone who tries to open
the PDF must type in the password that you specified. When you set a Permissions password,
anyone who wants to change the restrictions must type the Permissions password. Please note
that if a PDF is secured with both types of passwords, it can be opened with either password, but
only the Permissions password allows you to change the restrictions.
Tip:
1. There’s no way out to recover password from the PDF if you forgot it. To keep a backup
copy of the PDF that isn’t password-protected is a good choice.
2. Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to input Unicode password in the password input box when
you open a document protected by Unicode password.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
213
Add a password security
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Password Protect, or click File > Properties > Security,
choose Password Protection from the drop-down list.
2. In the Password Protection dialog box, do the following:
Document Open Settings:
Require a password to open the document – selects to require users to type the password you
specify to open the document.
Password Input: specifies a password that users must type to open the document.
Password Confirm: type the password again to confirm the password.
Document Restriction Settings:
Add Document Restriction – restricts actions to PDFs, such as printing, editing, etc.
Password Input: specifies a password that is required to change the permissions settings. If the file
is opened in Foxit PhantomPDF, the user can view the file but must enter the permissions password
to change the file’s security and permissions settings.
Password Confirm: type the password again to confirm the password.
Permission Specification:
The security details you specified are shown on the left. Click Permission to set the restriction
settings. In the Permission Settings dialog box, check Restrict printing and editing of the
document and its security settings and then select the options as needed.
Print Allowed – specifies the level of printing which users are allowed for the PDF.
A. Print with low resolution – allows users to print at no higher than 150-dpi resolution.
B. Print with high resolution – allows users to print with any resolution.
Changes Allowed – defines which editing actions are allowed in the document.
A. Inserting, deleting, and rotating pages – allows users to insert, delete, and rotate PDF
pages.
B. Filling in forms and signing existing signature fields – allows users to fill in forms and
sign documents in existing signatures fields.
C. Commenting, filling in forms and signing existing signature fields – allows users to add
comments, fill in forms and sign documents in existing signatures fields.
D. Any except extracting pages – allows users to do any operation but extract pages. If you
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
214
choose this option when encrypting a PDF portfolio, users are allowed to add, create,
and remove files in the PDF portfolio.
Enable copying of text, images, and other content – allows users to copy content in PDFs.
Enable text access for screen reader devices for the visually impaired – allows the visually
impaired users to access text with screen reader devices.
Encrypt Settings:
Encryption Algorithm- defines data transformations that cannot be easily reversed by
unauthorized users. Foxit PhantomPDF supports 128-bit AES, 256-bit AES and 128-bit ARC-FOUR.
Don’t encrypt metadata – encrypts the contents of a PDF but still allow search engines access to
the document metadata.
Save the setting as a new policy – save the current security settings as a policy so that you can
apply it to other documents.
3. Click Ok and save the document to make setting take effect.
Modify password and security settings
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Properties, or choose File > Properties.
2. In the Security tab of the Document Properties dialog box, choose Document Security >
Password Protection, and then click Change Settings…
3. Do the settings as “Add a password security” and then click OK.
Remove password and security settings
To remove password and security settings from a PDF, you must have the permissions to do so.
1. Open a PDF, and choose either way of the following to remove password and security settings.
Choose Protect > Secure Document > Remove Security.
Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Properties, or choose File > Properties. In the
Security tab of the Document Properties dialog box, choose No Protection from Security
Method menu.
2. A Foxit Security message box will prompt to ask whether you are sure to remove security from
this document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
215
Certification Protection
The advantage of securing documents with certificates is that authors can specify unique
permissions for each person. For example, authors can permit a person to fill in forms and
comment in document, and permit another person to edit text or delete pages. You can choose
certificates from files on disk, or from the Windows certificate store. Only a specific set of users
whose identities can be verified and managed can have access to the document. A certificate that
contains public key and other identifying information is used to encrypt documents, or verified a
digital signature. Only corresponding private key decrypts the document that was encrypting using
the certificate.
Generally, if possible, encrypt documents using certificates from third-party provider. If the
certificate is lost or stolen, the issuing authority can replace it, if a self-signed certificate is deleted,
all PDFs encrypted using the certificate is forever inaccessible.
Add a certificate security
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Certificate Protect.
2. In Certificate Protection dialog box, create intended recipient list for the encrypt document：
Click New ID to create and store your self-signed digital ID in:
New PKCS#12 digital ID file – Stores the digital ID information to a file with the
extension .pfx on Windows and .p12 on Mac OS. You can use the files interchangeably
across different operating systems.
Windows Certificate Store – Stores the digital ID to a common location. Other Windows
applications can also retrieve it.
Click Import to import certificate from Windows Certificate store.
Click Browse to import certificate from disk.
Click Remove to delete a recipient from recipient list.
Click Permission to set document restriction for the selected recipient. About Permission
options, please refer to “Add document restrictions” of Password security options.
3. Select Encryption Algorithm (support 128-bit AES, 256-bit AES and128 bit ARC-FOUR.
4. Check Don’t Encrypt metadata to encrypt the documents except metadata.
5. (Optional) Check Save the settings as a new policy to save the current security settings as a
policy so that you can apply it to other documents.
6. Click OK and save the document.
See also “About digital ID”
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
216
Change or remove certificate protection
To change or remove security settings, you must have permission to do so. If you want to change
or remove security encrypted with certificate, you must have all access to the document, or you
can’t do changes or remove security settings.
To change certificate protection, please do the following:
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Properties, or choose File > Properties.
2. In the Security tab of the Document Properties dialog box, choose Document Security >
Certificate Protection, and then click Change Settings…
3. In Certificate Protection dialog box, refer to Add a certificate security.
4. Click OK and save the document to apply your changes.
To remove certificate protection, please do one of the following:
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Remove Security.
2. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Properties or choose File > Properties, in the
Security tab of the Document Properties dialog box, choose No Protection from Security
Method menu.
Set Security Policies
If you often apply the same security settings to multiple PDFs, you can save your settings as a policy
that you can apply to other PDFs. Security policies include the security method, encryption
password, permission settings, etc.
Create a security policy
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Policies.
2. Click New.
3. Choose security method from menu and specify the policy name and description.
4. Click Edit Details to set restriction settings or passwords.
5. Review the policy details, and then click Close.
Secure PDFs using policies
You can apply any security policy to a PDF file. To secure a PDF with a security policy that you
specified, do the following:
1. Open a PDF document.
2. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Policies.
3. In the Manage Security Policies dialog box, select a policy which you want to apply to the PDF
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
217
file.
4. Click Apply to this Document.
5. Save the document to apply the security policy.
Manage security policies
After you create security policies, you can manage them by copying, editing, and deleting.
1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Security Policies.
2. In the Manage Security Policies dialog box, select a policy from left panel and do one or more
of the following:
Click New to create a new policy.
Click Copy to copy a policy. This option is useful when you create a new policy that’s
based on the settings of the selected policy.
Click Edit Details to edit a policy.
Click Delete to delete a policy.
Click Close.
AD RMS Protection (Business Edition Only)
Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services is an information technology that works with AD
RMS enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use. Users can
restrict users to open, read, modify or redistribute certain information. Foxit PhantomPDF RMS
protector provides seamless integration with Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services to
protect PDF documents and manage policy templates. If you are authorized you can use Foxit
PhantomPDF to open an RMS-Protected document to improve information security and meet
compliance requirements.
Once installed, Foxit PhantomPDF will extend all Microsoft AD RMS service to all PDF files.
Note: If you open a PDF which is encrypted by AD RMS feature of PhantomPDF with other PDF
programs, a wrapper (which is actually a PDF page) will prompt you to download Foxit PhantomPDF
to open the PDF. If you want to edit the wrapper content, please save the updated content as a PDF
file named “wrapperPDF.pdf” and place it within the Foxit PhantomPDF installation directory.
As for using Windows Azure AD Right Management (AAD RMS), please refer to the Quick Start for
Windows Azure AD Right Management.
RMS Encryption
1. Click Protect > AD RMS Protect > Restricted Access.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
218
2. Choose the template to add RMS encryption. If you have more than one server, please firstly
move the cursor to the name of the server, and then the templates on this server will be shown on
the submenu. Click Refresh Templates to get the latest official templates from the server. You also
can create custom templates. For more detailed information, please refer to Template Creation.
3. If you do not want to use the template, please click Restricted Access.
Type your account name and password when you login to the RMS server for the first time.
Click the icon to add users who you want to authorize for reading permission. To
authorize anyone to read this file, select the icon on the right side.
(If you have an Outlook Email Client, the contact list of Outlook will pop up when you click the
icon . You can choose the email address directly. You can also just type certain
letters included in the email address, and then click icon , the system will help you enter
the complete address according to the contact list. Then you can go on to the More Options
step.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
219
Choose the object types (users or group) and the server. Then type the e-mail addresses of
the authorized users into the text box or click Advanced to open the e-mail address list on
the server to choose an address directly.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
220
Click OK to exit the Select Users or Groups dialog box.
Click More Options in the Permission dialog box. The users you selected now will be shown
on the text box. You can also add or delete users as needed here.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
221
Additional permissions for users:
This document expires on: check it to set the expiration date. The document cannot be opened
after the specified date.
Print Content: check this option to allow the users above to print the PDF files.
Allow users with read access to copy content: enable the users who only have read permission
to copy content.
Allow users with read access to comment and fill form fields: enable the users who only have
reading permission to make comments and fill in form fields.
Access content programmatically: enable users to run the JavaScript in the document.
Extended Policy: complete PDF protection and control of document usage. The policy will
allow document owners to control the following items.
Only allow access to these pages: specify the page number(s) that a user is allowed to
access.
Only allow access by this IP range: specify an IP range that is allowed to access a document.
Number of accesses: specify the number of times that a user is allowed to access a
document.
Number of prints: specify the number of times that a user is allowed to print a document
Note: To specify the “Number of accesses” and “Number of prints” items in an on-premise
environment, please refer to Web Service Configuration to configure the web service and
SQL first, and then enable the extended policy with the Foxit Configuration Tool.
Additional settings:
User can request additional permissions from: if users want to apply for any permission, the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
222
application will open the email client and list the email address you typed into the text in the
Recipient's Address automatically. You can type a URL as well.
Require a connection to verify a user’s permission: check this option to let users verify their
license every time they open the encrypted file.
Security Watermark: add a security watermark to the PDF files. For the detailed instructions,
please refer to Security Watermark.
Set Defaults: set the additional settings as default.
Save as template: the security setting set above can be saved as a template for further use.
4. If users need to request additional permissions for a PDF file, please do the following:
- Open the file and choose File > Properties. In the Document Properties dialog box, click
Security tab.
- At the bottom of Security tab, click Request additional permissions ….
Note: Foxit PhantomPDF also supports Microsoft IRM Specification V1, V2, and PPDF, of which
Microsoft IRM Specification V2 is the default format when you encrypt PDFs with RMS. The
encryption policy of Microsoft IRM Protection does not include dynamic watermark, extended policy,
and dynamic revocation. To change the default Microsoft IRM format, do the following:
1. Type regedit.exe in the Run window or in the search box of the Start menu and navigate to
the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Foxit\PhantomPDF
9.0\RMS\Preferences.
2. Create a new REG_DWORD 32 value: Name: UseMicrosoftIRMV1.
3. Use the responding value to set the format as default as below.
PPDF: 0
V1: 1
V2: 2
Template Creation and Editing
To create a custom template, please see the following steps:
1. Choose Protect > AD RMS > Settings > Custom Templates.
2. Click Create to open the Create Custom Rights Policy Template dialog box.
3. (Optional) If you want to edit the existed template, please click Edit.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
223
4. Click Add to choose the language and edit template name and description. Click OK. The
template name and description will be shown in the Template Identification list.
5. Click Next to add user rights. Click Add in Users and Rights.
6. In the pop-up Add User or Group dialog box, choose The e-mail addresses of users or groups,
click Browse to simply add a user who you would like to assign the rights. Selecting Anyone allows
every user to work with the encrypted PDF files. You can type multiple e-mail addresses as well.
7. Check PDF permissions for the specified users. You can set the permissions for all of the users or
set different permissions for different users.
8. User can request additional permissions from: if users want to apply for any permission, the
application will launch the email client and list the email addresses you typed into the text in the
Recipient's Address automatically. You can type a URL as well.
9. Click Next to specify the expiration policy.
Content expiration
Never expires: the PDF content can be viewed indefinitely.
Expires on the following date: the PDF content will expire on a given date.
Expires after the following duration (days): the PDF content will expire after the desired days
selected.
Use license expiration
Requires users to re-verify permissions with the server after the following duration (days): users
need to apply for a new license to open the encrypted PDFs several days (the number you type
into) later.
10. Click Next to specify security watermark and the extended policy. Please refer to Security
Watermark and Extended Policy. Then click Finish to complete creating the template.
11. Click OK in the Manage Custom Rights Policy Templates dialog box. The template will be added
to the template list under Protect > AD RMS Protect > Restricted Access.
Security Watermark Management
1. Creating Profile
Before adding a watermark, you should create a profile first. The application will apply all of the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
224
watermarks in the profile to a PDF.
Note: you can only choose a profile but not a certain watermark to use. Please create the
watermarks you want to add to one PDF in the same profile.
Choose Protect > Settings > Security Watermark Management.
Click New Profile to create a profile and name it.
2. Add Watermark
To add a new watermark, please do the followings:
Open the Security Watermark Management and select a profile you created and click Add to
add watermarks in the profile.
Type the watermark’s name.
Fill in the watermark’s content in the text box and set the font, size, color, underline, and
alignment.
Note: you can only set text as watermark.
Choose the Dynamic Text. When any PDF reader opens the file, the watermark will show the
current document information dynamically and you can use multiple text at the same time.
Content ID: shows the content ID of the current document.
Document Title: shows the current document title.
Author: shows the author of current document.
Current User: shows the current user who is reading the document.
Date: shows the current system date when opening the document.
Day: shows the current system day when opening the document.
Month: shows the current system month when opening the document.
Year: shows the current system year when opening the document.
Time: shows the current system time when opening the document.
Hour: shows the current system hours when opening the document.
Minute: shows the current system minutes when opening the document.
Second: shows the current system seconds when opening the document.
Set the appearance by choosing the rotation degree and the opacity. You also have the option
to make the scale relative to the target page.
Set the vertical and horizontal distance between the target page and the watermark.
Choose the page range to apply the watermark. You can select the different page range
options by selecting from the subset list.
Preview the watermark in the right pane.
Click OK to finish.
3. Edit or Delete Watermark
Edit a Watermark
Open the Security Watermark Management and select a watermark you want to edit.
Click Edit to open the Edit Security Watermark dialog box.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
225
To edit the watermark, please refer to “Add Watermark”.
Click OK to finish the operation.
Delete a Watermark
Open the Security Watermark Management and select a watermark you want to delete.
Click Delete to remove the selected watermark.
4. Import or Export Watermark
Import a Watermark
Open the Security Watermark Management and click Import.
Choose a watermark with .xml format.
Click Open.
Export a Watermark
Open the Security Watermark Management and select a watermark you want to export.
Click Export and choose a file type and location to save.
The watermark will be exported as an .xml file or encoded file according to your choice. It can
be integrated into AD RMS policy template and applied to the PDF files by Foxit PhantomPDF.
Note:
1. If you want to integrate the watermark to a common policy template, please export it as an .xml
file and add it to the template by PhantomPDF directly.
2. If you want to integrate the watermark to an official policy template, please export it as an
encoded file (.txt format) and integrate it into the template by AD RMS Scripting API Architecture.
Then you can import the template and apply it to PDFs by PhantomPDF. (Please click here to see
the example and use the value of “appData.Name” and “appData.Value” in the exported encoded
file.)
Foxit Configuration Tool
Foxit PhantomPDF RMS protector provides a handy configuration tool for administrators to better
modify the protection settings on an RMS server. Administrators can directly enable/disable each
tool, edit the extended policy of official templates, dynamically revoke permissions, audit logs, set
valid network printers, and customize wrapper files.
To start to use the configuration tool to encrypt PDFs, please do the following:
- Log on to your RMS server.
- Download the Foxit Configuration Tool from:
For X86:
http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/rms/configtool/8.x/FoxitConfigurationTool_32.zip
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
226
For X64:
http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/rms/configtool/8.x/FoxitConfigurationTool_64.zip
- Unzip and Run Foxit Configuration Tool, you can use the different tools in Foxit Configuration
Tool window.
Foxit Configuration Tool Window
Template Extended Policy
Through the Foxit Configuration Tool, administrators can easily edit the extended policy of official
templates. Click Template Extended Policy tool and choose one template to edit. See also
Extended Policy.
Tip: Click the Back button in the left corner to return to the Foxit Configuration Tool window.
Dynamic Revocation
Revocation is a mechanism that revokes a PDF document that has already been issued. A common
use of revocation is to remove rights from an individual when he is no longer authorized or
remove access to a document when it becomes out of date or invalid.
Note: To revoke a PDF document/user in an on-premise environment, please refer to Web Service
Configuration to configure the web service and SQL first. Then choose the Revocation tool in the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
227
Foxit Configuration Tool window and enable the tool by clicking the button .
To revoke a PDF document, click Document Revocation. Select the PDF document you want to
revoke, click Add button to add the document to the Revocation List. Or you can click Browse to
select a document from a local drive to add to the Revocation List. To remove the revocation, please
select the document in the Revocation List and click Remove button.
To revoke a user, click User Revocation. Click Add button to add a user to the User Revocation List.
To remove the revocation, please select the user in the list and click Remove button.
Extended Policy
Foxit Configuration Tool provides you with Extended Policy to add complete PDF protection and
control to your PDF documents. The policy allows documents owners to control the number of
access and the number of prints in an on-premise environment. Before you specify the two
permissions, please refer to Web Service Configuration to configure the web service and SQL first,
and then choose the Extended Policy tool in the Foxit Configuration Tool window and enable the
tool by clicking the button .
Auditing Logs
Foxit PhantomPDF enables you to track on the usage of RMS protected files to record the actions
on the files during workflow, including who accessed the document, what document was
accessed, when it was accessed, how it was accessed and the success of that access, and more.
To audit logs, please refer to Web Service Configuration to configure the web service and SQL first,
and then choose the Audit Log tool in the Foxit Configuration Tool window and enable the tool by
clicking the button .
Choose one log and click on the Export button to export to Foxit Reader’s registry or Foxit
PhantomPDF’s to generate a .reg file for the administrator’s configuration. The administrator
can distribute the .reg file to client-end computers.
Restrict Local Printing
You can also set the printing permissions by specifying certain network printers to protect the
sensitive information from being printed arbitrarily.
Network Printers Configuration
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
228
To avoid unauthorized printing of sensitive documents, you can limit the printing permissions to
certain network printers. To configure network printers, please refer to Web Service Configuration
to configure the web service and SQL first, and then click the Valid Network Printer Setting tool in
the “Foxit Configuration Tool” window and click the button to enable this tool.
1. You should get the Printer Port first. Please go to Start > Devices and Printers > right-click a
network printer > Printer Properties. In the printer properties dialog box, choose Ports tab and get
the information, e.g. the “IP_192.168.3.239” is the printer port.
2. Click Add button in the “Foxit Configuration Tool” dialog box to add the Printer Port. You can also
remove a printer port by choosing it and clicking Remove.
Note: About how to add a network printer, please see “Add a Network Printer”.
Add a Network Printer
There are two devices to add a network printer as below:
Go to Start > Devices and Printers > Click Add a printer. In the Add Printer dialog box, click
The printer that I want isn’t listed to go to the next step.
Follow the instructions shown in the Add Printer dialog box as below and complete adding a
printer.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
229
Open the Run box by pressing shortcut keys Win + R, enter the printer URL you want to add
and click OK.
In the pop-up dialog box, right-click the printer and choose Connect on the context menu.
Edit Wrapper Content
If you open a PDF which is encrypted by Foxit with other PDF viewers, a wrapper (which is a PDF
page) appears with a prompt that you need to download Foxit Reader/PhantomPDF to open the
encrypted PDF. With Foxit Configuration Tool, you can customize the wrapper by selecting a desired
PDF file.
To apply a custom wrapper, please refer to Web Service Configuration to configure the web service
and SQL first. Then choose the Edit Wrapper Content tool in the Foxit Configuration Tool window,
enable the tool by clicking the button , and select a desired PDF file.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
230
RMS Settings
You can specify the RMS settings before you encrypt PDFs. To specify RMS settings, please navigate
to File > Preferences > RMS Settings.
Remove Hidden Data
Foxit PhantomPDF supports to sanitize documents by removing the hidden information that is
private or sensitive for users from their PDFs, generally including metadata, embedded content
and attached files, scripts, etc.
You can remove hidden data from a PDF by one-click, please go to Protect > Hidden Data > Sanitize
Document .
Redaction (Business Edition Only)
The redaction feature allows you to remove sensitive information from your document prior to
making it available to others. You are able to mark the text or graphics for Redaction first, and then
apply the redaction.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
231
Mark for Redaction
To mark the text or graphics for redaction, do the following:
Select Protect > Redaction > Mark for Redaction, and the Hand command changes into a
Cross automatically.
(Optional)Double-click an image to mark an entire image which will be in a red rectangle.
(Optional)Hold the pointer over the text you want to redact and drag a rectangle around it.
The rectangle will be filled with black color once moving close the pointer to the selected area.
Set Redaction Properties
You can set redaction properties, such as the appearance and the author, and so forth. Only before
you apply the redaction can you set the properties.
Right-click the marked area and choose Properties… and the Redaction Properties dialog box pops
up. The redaction properties have Appearance tab, General tab and Review History tab. There are
two additional settings on every tab:
Locked – When selected, prevents any further changes to any redaction properties.
Set Current Properties as Default – sets the current properties as default.
Appearance tab:
Redacted Area Fill Color – select a fill color for the boxes that will replace the redacted items.
Use Overlay Text – check this item if you need to display some text or code on the redacted area.
You can set the font, font size, font color and text alignment.
Custom Text – check this option and input the text you want to display in the redacted area.
Redaction Code – check this option and select a code set from the existing sets and then choose a
corresponding code entry.
General tab:
You can change the author and subject of the redaction.
Review History tab:
You can see the history of changes which have been made to the status of a redaction before
applying the redaction.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
232
Apply Redactions
You need to apply the redactions after marking the text or graphics you want to redact. To apply
the redaction, do the following:
Select Protect > Redaction > Apply Redactions. You can also do this by right-clicking the
marked content and choosing Apply or Apply All to redact either the selected content or all
of the marked content in the document.
A dialog box pops up to give a warning message and asks if you are sure to apply the redaction
or not.
Select OK after you have marked all content that you want to redact.
When you save the document after applying redaction, you can save the redacted file
automatically as a new file with the preconfigured filename. To configure the filename, please
select Adjust filename when saving applied redaction marks and input text in the Prefix and Suffix
boxes in File > Preferences > Documents > Redaction.
Search and Remove Text
You can find and remove content either in a single PDF file or in multiple PDF files under a specified
folder that contain searchable text with the Search & Redact command.
Select Protect > Redaction > Search and Redact. Then specify what you want to redact in the
Search pane. Please do one of the following:
Type the text you wish to find and redact into the search dialogue box. For more about
the search feature, please refer to “advanced search”.
Check the item Patterns and select a pattern. The patterns vary with different countries.
Choose Country based on the file you are using.
Click Search and Redact.
Check the results you want to redact.
Click the button Mark Checked Results for Redaction at the bottom of the search dialogue
box.
Choose Protect > Redaction > Apply Redactions. Or click the button Apply Redactions.
Note: This operation cannot be undone and the selected content will be removed permanently
when you select Apply. It is recommended that you save a backup copy of this document before
you apply the redaction.
Generate Redacted and RMS-protected PDFs (Business Edition Only)
Foxit PhantomPDF enables users to generate a redacted and RMS-protected PDF from an existing
PDF. Authorized users are granted access to view the full document while unauthorized users are
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
233
only able to view the redacted document, which allows for improved knowledge sharing of non-
sensitive information within a protected document.
To generate a redacted and RMS-protected PDF, please do the following:
Mark the content for redaction. See also Mark for Redaction.
Click Protect > Redaction > Protect Redactions , log on your RMS server and then
choose an RMS template to encrypt the document.
Then the document with redaction protected by the RMS template is generated and
opened with a message box appearing in the document area. Click View the full content to
view the full content without redaction. This message box appears only when the document
is opened by the document owner.
After clicking View the full content, two messages appear in the message box. Click
Redacted Mode to exit the full content mode and return to the document with redaction.
Click View Permission to view the security properties of the document.
When the authorized users open this protected document, only the message to view
permissions appears in the message box.
Windows Information Protection (WIP)
Windows Information Protection (WIP), a feature that enterprises use to protect enterprise data
by encrypting it and separating it from personal (or employees’) data, provides a way to manage
data policy enforcement for enterprise apps and documents. For enterprises that are using WIP
policies can include Foxit PhantomPDF and network locations in their policy restriction on PDF
documents, which helps to protect enterprise data against potential data leak on enterprise
owned-devices and personal devices that employees bring to work.
Note: To run WIP in your system, Windows 10 (version rs2 and later) is required.
Add Foxit PhantomPDF to your WIP policies
Administrators in enterprises often use Microsoft Intune or MobileIron to define and deploy WIP
policies. Here, we’ll use a Microsoft Intune example to explain how to add Foxit PhantomPDF to
your WIP policies.
1. Sign in Microsoft Intune at https://admin.manage.microsoft.com in the Internet Explorer or
Microsoft Edge.
2. Click POLICY > Overview > Add Policy to create a WIP policy. (Or, if you already have one, edit
the policy to add PhantomPDF.)
3. In the pop-up Create a New Policy dialog box, choose Windows > Windows Information
Protection (Windows 10 Desktop and Mobile and later), choose Create and Deploy a
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
234
Custom Policy, and then click Create Policy.
4. Type a name and an optional description for your WIP policy.
5. In App Rules, click Add.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
235
In the Add App Rule dialog box:
Title – Types a name, e.g. Foxit PhantomPDF.
Windows Information Protection mode – Chooses Allow to turn on WIP to protect
PhantomPDF’s corporate data through the enforcement of WIP restrictions.
Rule template – Chooses Desktop App from the drop-down list.
Publisher – You can run the PowerShell command: Get-AppLockerFileInformation -Path
"<path of the exe>". For example, run Get-AppLockerFileInformation -Path "<C:\Program
Files (x86)\Foxit Software\Foxit PhantomPDF\FoxitPhantomPDF.exe>" and get the
following:
Then the publisher name in the Publisher box is:
Product name – Checks the box, and enter the product name.
Binary name – Checks the box, and enter the Binary name “FoxitPhantomPDF.exe”.
Version – Checks the box, and specify a version range.
6. Click OK. At this point, Foxit PhantomPDF has been successfully added to your WIP policies.
Then follow the instructions to complete the WIP policy creation.
Add network locations to be protected by WIP
After you have added Foxit PhantomPDF to your WIP policies, you can define where PhantomPDF
can access enterprise data on your network.
1. To add network locations where PhantomPDF can access, click Add. The Add corporate
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
236
network definition dialog box appears.
2. Enter a name for your corporate network element in the Name box, and choose Enterprise
Cloud Resources from the Network element drop-down list.
3. Choose one or multiple network locations to be protected with your WIP policies from the
following URLs as needed. If you have multiple resources, separate them using the semicolon.
NdOffice: www.netdocuments.com
eDOCS DM: www.opentext.com
iManage Work: www.imanage.com
OneDrive: onedrive.live.com
Dropbox: www.dropbox.com
Box: www.box.com
Google Drive: drive.google.com
OneDrive for Business: office.live.com
(Note: For SharePoint network, you can enter your custom URL.)
4. Click OK.
FIPS mode
Foxit PhantomPDF provides a FIPS mode to make data protection compliant with Federal
Information Processing Standard (FIPS). FIPS mode uses FIPS 140-2 approved algorithms to
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
237
establish requirements for various purposes including the cryptographic modules of software and
hardware.
The system administrator can configure FIPS mode in the Windows registry by the following steps
(Take Foxit PhantomPDF 9.0 for example):
1. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Foxit Software\Foxit PhantomPDF 9.0
2. Right-click Foxit PhantomPDF 9.0, and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
3. Name the new value “bFIPSMode” and set the value data to 1.
In FIPS mode, the following security options are not available:
Applying password-based security policies to documents, RMS encryption and ConnectedPDF
protection. You can use public key certificates to secure the document.
Creating self-signed certificates. To create a self-signed digital ID, it must be saved to the
Windows certificate store. You cannot create a self-signed digital ID that is saved to a file.
RC4 encryption. A PDF file can only be encrypted using the AES encryption algorithm when in
FIPS mode.
MD5 or RIPEMD160 digest methods. In FIPS mode, only the SHA-1 and SHA-2 families of digest
algorithms can be used when you create a digital signature.
Note: In FIPS mode, you can open and view documents that are protected with algorithms that are
not FIPS compliant. However, you can’t save any changes to the document protected with password,
RMS and ConnectedPDF Protection.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
238
Chapter 11 – ConnectedPDF
Foxit ConnectedPDF allows each PDF to carry an identity assigned by the cPDF cloud service, and
tracks all the events on the PDF like creation, distribution, and modification. So no matter where
the ConnectedPDF document goes, how many distributions and modifications done to it, the
document owner can always track the document in real time and collaborate with the document
viewers involved. Therefore, ConnectedPDF connects files, people, location, and systems together
while ordinary PDF is separate and static.
The Connect tab in Foxit PhantomPDF toolbar provides powerful and easy-to-use tools to create,
protect, and track the access to Connected PDFs. You can also start and join a shared review on
Connected PDFs without any server anytime anywhere. The detailed features include:
Convert PDF to ConnectedPDF
Convert other formats to cPDF when creating to PDF
Configure open messages which appear when other users open a ConnectedPDF
document (Business only)
Clone a document (Business only)
Enable document enforced tracking (Business only)
Track any access to cPDF documents
Show usage data in document homepage
Register and upload a new version of cPDF document
Send update notification when registering a new version (Business only)
Online ConnectedPDF protection (Business only)
Permission configuration
Dynamically approve and revoke document permission
Dynamically request document permission and response to the changes of document
permission
Connected shared review without having to set up a shared folder
Document locator and request
For more information about ConnectedPDF, please refer to ConnectedPDF User Manual.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
239
Chapter 12 – Signature
Foxit PhantomPDF provides robust, secure and quick signature features, including digital signature,
DocuSign and quick PDF Sign.
Digital Signature
A digital signature acts as a traditional handwritten signature that can be used to authenticate the
identity of a user as well as the document content. It stores information about the signer along
with the date, time, and state of the document when it was signed.
About Digital ID
Digital ID is the identity of a person/organization, which contains your name, Email address, a serial
number, an expiration date, and the name of the company. A digital ID contains two keys, one is a
public key (certificate) that is used to encrypt or lock data, and the other is a private key that is
used to decrypt or unlock data that is encrypted.
You can distribute the certificate that contains the public key and other identifying information to
those people who need to use it to verify your identity, validate your signature, or encrypt a
document for you. Only your private key can unlock information that was encrypted using your
certificate, so make sure to store your digital ID in a safe place.
You can not only obtain a digital ID from a trusted third-party provider called a Certificate Authority
(CA) but also create a self-signed digital ID with Foxit PhantomPDF. Digital IDs are usually protected
by password; you can store it on a computer in PKCS#12 file format, or in the Windows Certificate
Store. All the digital IDs available on the computer are listed in the Digital IDs window. You can
choose the Protect tab > Protect > Digital IDs to check the digital IDs list. In the Digital IDs window,
you can also view the certificate details, refresh the ID list, add or remove a digital ID, and export
a digital ID to an FDF, PKCS, or CER file.
Sign a PDF
Place a signature
Before you sign a document, you need to draw a signature field where the signature is placed, get
a digital ID, and create the signature.
1. Choose Protect > Protect > Sign & Certify > Place Signature.
2. Press and hold the mouse button down, and drag to draw a signature field for your signature.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
240
3. In Sign Document dialog box, choose a digital ID from drop-down menu. If you can’t find the
specified digital ID, you will need to get a certificate from the third-party provider or create a
self-signed digital ID.
4. (Optional)To create a self-designed digital ID, choose New ID from drop-down menu. In the
Add Digital ID dialog box, select a location to store the digital ID. Click Next to type your
identity information such as name, organization unit, e-mail address, etc. to be used when
generating the self-signed certificate. In Use Digital ID for, choose one option as needed. Click
Next to enter a file name, storage location and password for your new digital ID file. Confirm
your password and click Finish.
5. Choose an appearance type from menu. There are two types to choose, one is Standard Style,
and the other is to Create New Style for your signature. Please refer to Creating signature
appearance. You can view your signature in Signature Preview panel.
6. Click Sign. In the Save As window, input the password of the signature, specify the location
and file name of the signed document.
Note: By default, the document is signed after you place the signature and then you will not be
able to move or resize it. To change the setting, please uncheck the Sign the document
immediately after the signature is placed option in File > Preferences > Signature.
Create signature appearance
You can set the appearance of your digital signature by selecting different options in Sign
Document dialog box. For example, a signature can include an image of your handwritten signature,
a company logo, or a photo, date and so on. Furthermore, you can create dynamic signature
appearance to user for different purpose. A signature appearance also includes information that
helps others verify your signature, such as reason for signing, contact information, and more.
Different appearances of signatures
Choose Protect > Protect > Sign & Certify > Place Signature.
Press and hold the mouse button down, and drag to draw a signature field for your signature.
In Sign Document dialog box, choose Create New Style from Appearance Type menu.
Check the options that you want to appear in digital signature. A signature appearance can
include lots of information showing the users attributes, including name, organization,
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
241
country, logo, location, etc. You can click Setting to specify the font and font size if necessary.
Click OK to save the settings.
(Optional) After placing the signature, right-click it and choose Properties… to set the
properties of the signature field. In the Signature Properties dialog box, you can set the
appearance, actions, etc. See also Signature Field Properties. (Note: This operation is not
available after signing the document.)
Note: To manage the created styles, go to File > Preferences > Signature.
Move, resize and delete an unsigned signature
You can move, resize and delete signatures before signing the document, but you aren’t allowed
to change certificate and appearance of certificate.
1. To move a signature
Select the Select Annotation command or the corresponding tool, put the pointer over the
signature, click and drag the signature to another place you like.
2. To resize a signature
Select the Select Annotation command or the corresponding Tool, click the signature. Place
the cursor on any corner point. Pointer changes into the cursor showing the direction at which the
rectangle will be resized.
3. To delete a signature
Select the Select Annotation command .
Right-click the signature and choose Delete from context menu, or press Delete key.
Note: If you have checked the Locked option in Signature Properties dialog box, the operations to
the signature above are not available.
Sign Documents
A PDF is signed to indicate your approval. The signature is flattened, so it cannot be resized and
moved after signing the document. Multiple people can sign a PDF more than once. When you sign
a document, your digital signature appears in the signature field. The appearance of the signature
depends on your preferences.
1. Sign a PDF after placing, please choose one of the followings to sign the document:
Choose Protect > Protect > Sign Document.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
242
Select the Hand command and right-click the signature, choose Sign Document.
Select the Hand command, and click the signature.
Set your signature preferences in Preferences dialog box. Choose File > Preferences >
Signature, check the option of “Sign the document immediately after the signature is
placed” to sign the document immediately when the signature is placed.
2. Type file name and specify location in pop-up Save As dialog box.
Note: By default, the document is signed after you place the signature. To change the setting,
please uncheck the Sign the document immediately after signature is placed option in File >
Preferences > Signature.
Validate Signatures
Signature validity is determined by checking the authenticity of the signature’s digital ID certificate
status and document integrity. Depending on how you have configured your application, validation
may occur automatically.
Set Signature Verification Preference
By default, Foxit PhantomPDF will verify signatures when the document is opened. If you want to
change the setting, please go to File > Preferences > Signature, and uncheck the Verify signatures
when the document is opened option in Signing & Verifications group.
Set the Trust Level of a Certificate
The signature of a certified or signed document is valid if you and the signer have a trust
relationship. The trust level of the certificate indicates the actions for which you trust the signer.
To set the trust level:
Choose File > Preferences > Signature.
Check the option(s) in Windows Integration group to trust all root certificates in the Windows
Certificate Store when validating signatures and certified documents.
Tip: You can specify the trust level for a specific certificate in Foxit PhantomPDF Trusted Certificates
list while adding and managing the trusted certificate. Please refer to Add Trusted Certificates and
Manage Trusted Certificates for more information. If you configure different settings for the same
certificate, settings with higher permissions will prevail. Remember that checking trust options may
compromise security. Please make sure that you trust all the root certificates before enabling the
features.
Check the validity of a signature
By default, Foxit PhantomPDF verifies signatures when the document is opened. An icon appears
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
243
on the left top of Signature Validation Status message box to indicate the signature status. The
signature state appears in the Signature Panel.
The question mark icon indicates the signature is not validated.
The check mark icon indicates that the signature is valid.
The icon indicates that the signature is invalid. The document has been altered or
corrupted since the signature was applied.
The caution triangle icon indicates the document was modified after signature was
added; however, the signature is valid.
The icon indicates the signature validity is unknown because the signer’s certificate isn’t
in your list of trusted identities.
Validate a signature
1. Open the PDF containing the signature, do one of the followings:
Choose Protect > Protect > Validate.
Right-click the signature with the Hand command, choose Validate Signature from context
menu.
Select the Hand command on the toolbar and click the signature.
Click the Digital Signatures panel, right-click the signature and choose Validate Signature.
2. Pop-up a Signature Validation Status message box which describes the validity of signature.
Modify a signed signature
To modify a signature after signing the document:
Validate the signature first. And right-click the signature with the Hand command and choose
Clear Signature. The signature will be cleared and only a blank signature field will be left.
Click the blank signature field with the Hand command, and create a new signature. See also
“Creating signature appearance”.
To delete a signed signature:
Validate the signature first. And right-click the signature with the Hand command and choose
Clear Signature. The signature will be cleared and only a blank signature field will be left.
Choose the Select Annotation command or the corresponding tool, right-click the
signature field and choose Delete.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
244
Certify a PDF (Business Edition Only)
Only the author can certify his/her own PDF documents. The author can specify what changes can
be made to the file after certifying. Whenever approved changes are made, the certificate remains
valid. If a reader tries to make changes you haven't allowed, the certificate is invalidated and any
subsequent users will be notified that the document was tampered with.
To certify your PDF, please do the following:
1. Open your PDF document you want to certify.
2. Select Protect > Protect > Sign & Certify > Certify with visible signature/Certify without
visible signature.
3. Press and hold mouse button down, drag to select an area on the document where you want
the signature to appear.
4. In the pop-up Certify Document dialog box, choose a digital ID. If you don’t find the specified
digital ID, you need to get a digital ID from a third-party provider or create a self-signed digital
ID.
5. Set authorized actions for your document from the drop-down menu in Permitted Actions
After Certifying item.
6. Set the signing reason and choose an appearance type from the menu.
7. Click Sign.
8. To set the properties of the signature, please refer to Signature Field Properties.
9. To sign the document, please see Sign a PDF.
10. To validate the signature, please refer to Validate Signatures.
Add a time stamp to digital signatures and documents
Time stamps are used to specify the date and time you signed a document. A trusted time stamp
proves that the contents of your PDFs existed at a point-in-time and have not changed since then.
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to add a trusted time stamp to digital signatures or documents.
To add a time stamp to digital signatures
To add a time stamp to digital signatures, a default time stamp server is required before you make
the digital signature. If you have configured a default time stamp server and added it to your
trusted certificate list, the time stamp will be embedded with the signature, and the signature
properties will show the date/time in the time stamp server when you signed the document;
otherwise, the signature properties will display the local date/time of the computer.
1. Go to File > Preferences > Time Stamp Servers, and set a default time stamp server.
2. Sign the document. See also Sign a PDF.
3. You will be prompted with a pop-up Security Warning to ask you to allow connecting to your
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
245
time stamp server. Click Allow.
4. Then the signature you made has been successfully embedded with a timestamp. When
validating the signature, users need to add the time stamp server into the trusted certificate
list so that the signature properties will display the date/time in the time stamp server when
the document was signed. See also Trusted Certificates.
Note: By default, if only one time stamp server is available in the system, it will be set as default
automatically.
To add a time stamp to documents
Before adding a time stamp to documents, you need to configure a default time stamp server.
Click Protect > Protect > Time Stamp Document and create a timestamp server by clicking
New… in the pop-up dialog box. Specify the server name and complete other settings of the
server on demand. Click OK.
Select the created server and click Set Default to set the server as the default time stamp
server. Click Next to continue.
(Tip: You can also create, edit, and delete time stamp servers as well as enable/disable the
default time server in File > Preferences > Time Stamp Servers. To disable the default time
stamp server, select the default time stamp server and click Clear.)
Specify a name and location for the signed document. Click Save.
Trusted Certificates
When you validate or view properties of a digital signature or an embedded timestamp, the validity
status may display “unknown” or “could not be verified”. You need to add the certificate that issued
your digital IDs as well as the time stamp server to the Trusted Certificates list.
To add a trusted digital certificate to the Trust Certificates list, please do the following:
Right-click the digital signature, and choose Show Signature Properties.
In the Signature Properties dialog box, click Show Certificate.
In the Certificate Viewer dialog box, specify the trust level for the certificate:
Use this certificate as a trusted root: Use the certificate as a trusted root, and trust all
certificates issued by that certificate authority.
Validating Signatures or Validating Certified Documents: Trust the certificate when
validating signatures or certified documents.
Click Add to Trusted Certificates, and confirm your operation.
To add a trusted time stamp server to the Trusted Certificates list, please do the following:
If a time stamp is added to a digital signature, click Timestamp Properties in the lower left
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
246
corner of the Signature Properties dialog box. If a time stamp is added in the document, right-
click the timestamp signature in Digital Signature pane, and choose Show Signature
Properties.
In the pop-up Timestamp Properties dialog box or Signature Properties dialog box, click Show
Certificate.
In the Certificate Viewer dialog box, specify the trust level for the certificate:
Use this certificate as a trusted root: Use the certificate as a trusted root, and trust all
certificates issued by that certificate authority.
Validating Signatures or Validating Certified Documents: Trust the certificate when
validating signatures or certified documents.
Click Add to Trusted Certificates, and confirm your operation.
To check all the trusted certificates, choose Protect tab > Protect > Trusted Certificates. In the Trust
Certificates window, you can manage all the trusted certificates, including adding & exporting a
certificate, viewing certificate details, deleting a certificate, and specifying the trust level for a
certificate.
Signature Panels
The signature panel shows information about each signature and time stamp in the document as
well as the change history of the document since the first signature.
Open the signature panel
Click Signature button on the left of Navigation Pane.
View Signature Properties
Signature Properties dialog box provides basic information about the signature, including the signer,
reason, date, location validity summary and details of certificate, etc.
1. Select the Hand command.
2. Right-click the signature field, or right-click the signature in the Digital Signatures panel and
choose Show Signature Properties from context menu.
3. In Signature Properties dialog box, you can get the information as follows:
Signed by – shows the signers that sign the document.
Reason – displays the reason that you create the signature.
Date – shows the date time when you signed the document.
Location - shows which page the signature is located on.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
247
Validity Summary - checks whether the document was modified after it was signed, and
other information.
Show Certificate – click it to show the details of certificate, such as the validity of
certificate, certificate path, etc.
Add to Trusted Certificates – Click it to add the digital certificate to the Trusted
Certificates list.
Timestamp Properties – Click it to see the properties of the timestamp or add the time
stamp to the Trusted Certificates list. (Only available for time stamp signatures or digital
signatures embedded with a time stamp.)
Note: If the status is unknown, click Show Certificate… in the Signature Properties dialog box >
Show Certificate in the Certificate Viewer dialog box to view the details of the certificate. Check
whether the certificate has been included in your list of trusted identities. If your certificate is not
trusted, click Install Certificate to install it to the trusted Windows Certificate Store. If you use a
self-signed digital ID, confirm that the certificate details are valid. If the certificate isn’t valid, a
valid certificate from signer is requested.
Sign PDFs with DocuSign®
Allows users to easily send, sign and save PDF documents and forms using the industry's most
widely used eSignature solution.
Sign a PDF File
To sign a PDF with DocuSign, please refer to the following steps:
- Open the PDF document you want to sign. Click the Protect tab, and choose DocuSign > Login
to DocuSign. Type your Email and password for DocuSign and click Login. If you do not have
an account, please sign up first.
- After signing in, choose DocuSign > Sign with DocuSign. The application will upload your PDF
to DocuSign and you will enter into the DocuSign user interface.
- Sign the Document
On the DocuSign user interface in the PhantomPDF window, you can do the following:
o Sign directly by adding desired fields (including Signature, Initial, Date Signed, and
more) to the document. Choose a field and the cursor changes to preview the
appearance of the field. Then click on the document to place the field, or click several
times to place multiple fields. Click the Close button at the top right corner of a field
to delete it. You can resize fields such as Signature, Initial, and Text by dragging the
handles of the field box that appear when you click on the field. (Note: You should
visit the DocuSign website if you want to change the Signature and Initial
appearances.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
248
o By using the tools at the top of the window, you can change the zoom of the file,
download the file, or print the PDF with signatures visible.
o Click FINISH and a message box pops up for you to send the signed document to
others.
o (Optional) click OTHER OPTIONS to view history, view certificates, choose FINISH
LATER to finish the signing process later, or choose PRINT & SIGN to print the
document out so you can sign on paper.
- To log out of DocuSign, choose DocuSign > Logout of DocuSign in the Protect tab.
- To change the appearance of your signature:
Visit the DocuSign website (www.docusign.net).
Click Edit beside MY DOCUSIGN ID under the Home tab. (If you don’t have any
signatures, click Create Your Signature.)
Then find the signature you want to change and click Edit.
In the Create Your Signature window, change the signature appearance as needed.
CHOOSE: select a style as your signature appearance.
DRAW: draw a signature appearance using your input device.
UPLOAD: you can upload an image as your signature appearance.
Click CREATE to complete the signature creation process.
Send a PDF via DocuSign
- Open a PDF with PhantomPDF.
- Click the Protect tab, and choose DocuSign > Send via DocuSign.
- Log in to DocuSign.
- Add the recipients, message, and other options as needed.
- Then Click Send to send the PDF.
Note: For more details about DocuSign, please contact DocuSign support.
Quick PDF Signature
Quick PDF Sign enables you to create your self-signed signatures and add the signature to the page
directly. You don’t need to create different signatures for different roles.
See also the tutorial on Sign Documents with PDF Sign.
To create your own handwritten signature and sign a PDF, follow these steps.
1. Choose Protect > Protect > PDF Sign. The PDF SIGN tab appears on the toolbar.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
249
2. Click in the signature palette or click on the lower right corner of the signature
palette and choose Create Signature from the drop down menu.
3. In the Create Signature dialog box, you can draw a signature, import a file, copy from the
clipboard, or type text content to create a signature. Or, click Online Signature to choose a
signature from the online signatures you saved before.
TIP: You can sign your signature on a clean white sheet of paper using a black pen, and scan it to
an image file. To create the best signature, it is suggested to scan your signature in monochrome
at 600 DPI.
4. You can preview the signature in the Preview box.
5. Check the options as needed:
Convert signature to black & white: the signature will be created in black and white even if
the original image is chromatic.
Discard the signature when program closes: the signature will not be listed in the signature
palette next time you launch PhantomPDF.
Require password to use this signature: Specify a password that will be required when users
sign the document with the signature. Enter the password again to confirm it.
6. (Optional) Click Save Online to save the newly created signature to Foxit ConnectedPDF Web
Services, which allows you to sign documents.
7. Click Save. The cursor will be changed into a shape with the appearance preview of the
signature.
8. Place the cursor to the position you want to sign and click. Click the signature, and it will be
highlighted with a red rectangle. You can move the signature by dragging the rectangle to
other places. You can also resize it by clicking and dragging the handle in the lower right corner
of the rectangle. When you click the signature, a gray toolbar appears over the rectangle. Click
and to switch among different signatures if any; click the invert triangle to drop
down the context menu.
9. (Optional) Click Predefined Text > Set Predefined Text to define text that can be integrated in
the signature. Using the Typewriter command and the predefined text, you can quickly add
some static information (like the full names of the signature owner and the company) which
can be integrated in the signature. Flatten the document when applying the signature to
prevent the information from being edited. By default, the identity information has been
saved as predefined text.
10. Select Place on Multiple Pages from the context menu to place the signature to multiple
pages.
11. To apply the signature to the document, click the rectangle and the invert triangle or
right-click the signature, and select Apply Current Signature from the context menu. You can
apply all signatures in the document by clicking Apply All Signatures. A dialog box will pop up
when you click Apply All Signatures for the first time to prompt you that applying all
signatures will flatten the whole document. You can change the settings by clicking Change
Setting in the dialog box, or clicking the invert triangle in the signature palette and
choosing Setting, or directly navigating to File > Preferences > PDF Sign.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
250
12. Click the Close button to exit the PDF SIGN tab.
Note: Once applied, the signature can no longer be edited or deleted.
To manage the created signatures, do the following:
In the PDF SIGN tab, click on the lower right corner of the signature palette and choose
Manage Signature from the drop down menu. In the Manage Signature dialog box, you can create,
move and delete the created signatures, and set password for them.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
251
Chapter 13 – Accessibility
Foxit PhantomPDF provides accessibility features to give users with disabilities (such as visually
impaired people) greater access to information and technology. With commands in the
Accessibility tab in the ribbon and the panels related to accessibility in the navigation pane, you
can check the accessibility of PDFs, fix accessibility issues, edit document structure, and set
accessibility preferences to make PDFs and the setup more accessible.
Accessibility Check and Fixes
A document is accessible if it can be used by people with disabilities, such as visually impaired
people. Foxit PhantomPDF allows users to evaluate the accessibility of your documents and identify
areas that may be in conflict with Foxit’s interpretations of referenced guidelines, create
accessibility report, view the Full Check results, and fix accessibility problems.
Check Accessibility with Full Check
Use the Full Check command to check whether a PDF is compliant with accessibility standards of
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. You can choose which kinds of accessibility items
to check for and how to view the results.
To check accessibility with the Full Check command, please do as below:
1. Choose Accessibility > Accessibility Checker > Full Check .
2. In the Accessibility Checker Options dialog box, select options you need to check for. See also
the Accessibility Issues.
3. In Report Options section, check Create Accessibility Report option if needed to save the
results as an HTML file and specify the save path. You can also check Attach report to
document to add the accessibility report as an attachment of the PDF document.
4. Show this dialog when the Checker starts: If this option is checked, the Accessibility Checker
Options dialog box will pop up whenever you run the Full Check. Otherwise, the dialog box
won’t appear. If the dialog is hidden, go to File > Preferences > Accessibility and change the
setting to show the dialog.
5. Click Options button and specify the page range to do a full check.
6. Click Start Checking.
View Full Check Results and Accessibility Report
When the check is completed, the Accessibility Check panel automatically expands in the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
252
navigation pane to display the check results.
You can click Accessibility > Accessibility Checker > Accessibility Report , or directly click the
Accessibility Report panel in the navigation pane to open the Accessibility Report. You can also
open the accessibility report file (if any) in a web browser.
Note: Because some content types are difficult to be distinguished clearly by the checker, some
issues reported may not affect readability. It would be better to review all issues to definitely decide
which ones are not accessible.
The report includes the name of the PDF document, Summary of the result, and Detailed Report
for each checking option.
Summary lists one of the following statuses for each item check:
Needs manual check – The Full Check feature couldn’t check the item automatically. Please
verify the item manually.
Passed manually – The item status was changed to Passed Manually by users from Needs
manual check.
Failed manually – The item status was changed to Failed Manually by users from Needs
manual check.
Skipped – Users chose Skip Rule when verifying the items manually. Or the item was skipped
because the corresponding option was not selected in Accessibility Checker Options dialog
box when users ran the Full Check.
Passed – The item passed the Full Check.
Failed – The items didn’t pass the Full Check.
Detailed Report clearly lists the rule name, status, and description for each checking option. You
can click the links in the report to view the online Help on fixing issues.
Fix Accessibility Problems
In the Accessibility Check panel where the Full Check results are listed, right-click an item and
choose one of the following options from the context menu:
Fix: fixes the issue automatically, or prompts a dialog box where you need to fix it manually.
(Business Edition only)
Skip Rule: changes the item status to Skipped.
Explain: opens the online Help on the accessibility issue.
Check Again: checks all the items again.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
253
Show Report: opens the Accessibility Report panel in the navigation pane.
Options: opens the Accessibility Checker Options dialog box for you to select options.
Pass: changes the item status to Passed Manually if you believe the item meets the accessibility
standard.
Fail: changes the item status to Failed Manually if you believe the item doesn’t meet the
accessibility standard.
Accessibility Issues
After the accessibility check based on the options you specified in the Accessibility Checker
Options dialog box with the Full Check command, you can view the check results in the
Accessibility Check panel and the detailed report in the Accessibility Report panel. The following
part on accessibility issues provides explanations and instructions to help you better understand
each accessibility rule and easily make a decision on how to deal with the accessibility problems in
your document.
Document
Accessibility permission flag
Some documents may be protected by the document authors and no content can be copied,
printed, extracted, annotated, or edited. This permission setting could interfere with a screen
reader’s ability to read the documents because screen readers need to copy or extract the
documents’ text to convert it to speech.
The flag reports whether the setting is turned off to allow accessibility. If your document failed to
pass the rule, to fix the issue automatically, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in
the navigation pane and choose Fix from the context menu in PhantomPDF Business. You can also
fix the issue manually by choosing No Protection in File > Properties > Security to turn off the
permission setting.
Image-only PDF
The rule check reports whether the document is an image-only PDF with non-text content that is
not accessible. To fix the issue automatically, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in
the navigation pane and choose Fix from the context menu in PhantomPDF Business. Or, you can
use the OCR tools under the Convert tab in the ribbon to recognize text in images to fix the rule
check manually.
Tagged PDF
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
254
This rule check reports whether the document is a PDF with tags to specify the reading order, which
is important for an accessible PDF. If the check failed, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check
panel in the navigation pane and choose Fix from the context menu in PhantomPDF Business. Or,
you can tag the PDF manually by doing any of the following:
Re-create the PDF from a file that has been tagged in the authoring application.
Use the Autotag Document/Form Field commands under the Accessibility tab in PhantomPDF
Business.
Use the Reading Order command under the Accessibility tab in PhantomPDF Business to
create the tags tree for the document manually.
Directly create the tags tree manually in the Tags panel in the navigation pane in PhantomPDF
Business.
Logical Reading Order
Check the rule manually to make sure that the reading order in the Tags panel is in accordance
with the logical reading order.
Primary language
Some screen readers read the text in the language specified for the document. This rule checks
whether the primary text language for the document is specified. If no language was set, only
Business Edition allows you to fix this issue. You can set the language by right-clicking the rule in
the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and choosing Fix from the context menu, then
choose a language in the Set Reading Language dialog box. You can also set the language manually
by doing either of the following:
Set the language for text in a subtree of the tags tree in the Tags panel. Right-click an element,
choose Properties…, and select a language in the Object Properties dialog box.
Set the language for a block of text in the Content panel. Right-click the text element or
container element, choose Properties…, and select a language in the Object Properties dialog
box.
Title
This rule is to check whether the document contains a title in its document properties. If the check
failed, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane, choose Fix from
the context menu in PhantomPDF Business, uncheck Leave as is and enter the document title in
the Description dialog box. Or, add the title manually in the Title box in File > Properties >
Description, and then select Display document title in Window Options in File > Properties >
Initial View.
Bookmarks
If the document contains 21 or more pages, but doesn’t have bookmarks that correspond to the
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
255
document structure, this rule check will fail. To add bookmarks to the tagged document, right-click
the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane, choose Fix from the context menu
in PhantomPDF Business, and select the elements you want to use as bookmarks in the Structure
Elements dialog box.
Color contrast
The check may fail if the document contains content that isn’t accessible to people who are color-
blind. To fix the issue, ensure that the document’s content conforms to the guidelines in WCAG
section 1.4.3, or select Replace document colors and set high-contrast colors to the PDF viewer in
File > Preferences > Accessibility.
Page Content
Tagged content
The rule check reports whether all content in the document is tagged or marked as an artifact.
Artifacts are graphics objects that are typically not part of the author’s original content but rather
are generated by the PDF producer application in the course of pagination, layout, or other strictly
mechanical processes. Artifacts are not read by a screen reader. Page numbers, headers, and
footers are often tagged as artifacts.
To fix the issue, do either of the following in PhantomPDF Business:
Mark the content as an artifact by right-clicking it and choosing Create Artifact in the Content
panel in the navigation pane.
Tag the content using the Reading Order command in the Accessibility tab.
Tagged annotations
The check reports whether all annotations in the document are tagged or marked as an artifact. To
fix the issue, do either of the following in PhantomPDF Business:
Mark the content as an artifact by right-clicking it and choosing Create Artifact in the Content
panel in the navigation pane.
Tag the content using the Reading Order command in the Accessibility tab.
Tip: You can enable Tag Annotations in the Tags panel by right-clicking any tag so that all new
annotations will be tagged automatically as they are created.
Tab order
The check reports whether the tab order parallels the document structure. To fix the issue
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
256
automatically, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and
choose Fix from the context menu in PhantomPDF Business. You can also click the Pages panel in
the navigation pane, right-click the pages that failed in the rule check, choose Properties… and
select Use Document Structure in the Tab Order tab to set the tab order manually.
Character encoding
A correct character encoding is required to display readable text in software/hardware. To fix the
issue, you need to check whether the necessary fonts have been installed on your system or re-
create the PDF from a file that uses a proper font (preferably OpenType).
Tagged multimedia
Checks whether all multimedia objects in the document are tagged or marked as an artifact. To fix
the issue, do one of the following in PhantomPDF Business:
Mark the content as an artifact by right-clicking it and choosing Create Artifact in the Contents
panel in the navigation pane.
Tag the content using the Reading Order command in the Accessibility tab.
Screen flicker
Document content, like animations and scripts that can make the screen flicker, is not accessible
for people who have photosensitive epilepsy and can be difficult to see when the screen is
magnified. To fix the issue, you need to remove or modify the content that can make the screen
flicker.
Scripts
If the document contains scripts, the scripting shouldn’t interfere with keyboard navigation or
prevent the use of any input device. To fix the issue, you need to remove or modify the script or
content that doesn’t meet the accessibility rule.
Timed responses
If the document contains forms with JavaScript that requires timed response, the check fails. To fix
the issue, edit the scripts to give users enough time to read and use the content, or remove the
scripts.
Navigation links
The check reports whether the URLs in the document are active links that are correctly tagged. To
fix the issue, check navigation links manually and make sure that the content doesn’t have too
many identical links. If some items appear multiple times, provide a way for users to skip over them.
For example, if the same links appear on each page of the document, you can also include a “Skip
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
257
navigation” link.
Forms
Tagged form fields
The rule check reports whether all form fields in the document are tagged. If the rule check passes,
you can also use the Tooltip in a form field’s properties to provide users with more information.
If it fails, you can tag form fields with the Autotag Form Field command in the Accessibility tab in
PhantomPDF Business.
Field descriptions
The check reports whether all form fields have a text description in the document. All form fields
need a text description for an accessible PDF. You can add a text description (tooltip) to a form field
in its properties by right-clicking the form field and choosing Properties….
Alternate Text
Figures alternate text
For accessibility, images in the document either have alternate text, or are marked as artifacts. If
the rule check fails, do any of the following in PhantomPDF Business:
Right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and choose Fix from
the context menu. Add alternate text in the Set Alternate Text dialog box.
Open the Tags panel and right-click the image that you want to add alternate text, choose
Properties…, and add alternate text in the Object Properties dialog box.
Mark the content as an artifact by right-clicking it and choosing Create Artifact in the Contents
panel in the navigation pane.
Nested alternate text
The check fails if the document contains nested alternate text that screen readers don’t read. To
fix the issue, right-click the nested element in the Tags panel in PhantomPDF Business, choose
Properties…, and remove the alternate text in the Object Properties dialog box.
Associated with content
Alternate text is always associated with the corresponding content on the page. If not, there’s no
way to determine which page the alternate text is on. If the Screen Reader Options in Preferences >
Reading is not set to read the entire document, screen readers don’t read the alternate text. To fix
the issue, remove the alternate text from any nested item that has no page content by right-clicking
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
258
the nested elements in the Tags panel in PhantomPDF Business and choosing Properties….
Hides annotation
The rule checks whether there is any annotation in the document is hidden by alternate text. For
an annotation that is nested under a parent element with alternate text, screen readers don’t see
it. To fix the issue, right-click the nested element in the Tags panel in PhantomPDF Business, choose
Properties…, and remove the alternate text from the Object Properties dialog box.
Other elements alternate text
The content except figures like multimedia, annotations, and 3D models, also requires alternate
text for accessibility. And make sure alternate text is always associated with the corresponding
content on the page. See also Associated with content.
Tables
For the table structure, which can be complex, PhantomPDF recommends that users check them
for accessibility manually.
Rows
If the check fails, open the Tags panel, and make sure that each Table Row in a table is a child of
Table, THead, TBody, or TFoot in PhantomPDF Business.
TH and TD
For accessibility, Table Header <TH> and Table Data <TD> are children of Table Row <TR>. If the
check fails, verify it in the Tags panel in PhantomPDF Business.
Headers
For accessibility, all tables must have a header. If the check fails, verify it in the Tags panel in
PhantomPDF Business.
Regularity
Tables must contain the same number of columns in each row, and rows in each column. If the
check fails, verify it in the Tags panel in PhantomPDF Business.
Summary
A table summary is not a must, but it can make the document more accessible.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
259
Lists
List items
The rule check reports whether the list structure in the document is correct. Lists must have the
following structure: A list element must contain list item elements; a list item element may have a
label element (optional) and a list item body element (required). To fix the issue, do the following
steps:
Right-click the failed element in List items in the Accessibility Check panel and choose Show
in Tags Panel from the context menu.
Create elements, change the types of elements, or reorganize the existing elements by
dragging them to the proper position.
Lbl and LBody
See also List items.
Headings
Appropriate nesting
The check reports whether headings are nested properly. If the check fails, do the following steps:
Right-click the failed element in Headings in the Accessibility Check panel and choose Show
in Tags Panel from the context menu.
Create elements, change the types of elements, or reorganize the existing elements by
dragging them to the proper position.
Accessible reading and navigation through accessibility
preference setting and shortcut keys
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to set accessibility preferences that control the document colors,
document display and reading order, and provides keyboard shortcuts, which are good for visually
impaired and motion-impaired users to better read and navigate PDFs with or without assistive
software/hardware.
Set accessibility preferences with Setup Assistant
1. Click Accessibility > Setup > Setup Assistant.
2. In the Accessibility Setup Assistant dialog box, choose options that you need or are suitable
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
260
for your assistive software/hardware.
3. If you click Cancel in any step, all the options you have chosen will be discarded and the
original setting will be used.
Tip: You can set more accessibility preferences from File > Preferences > Accessibility.
Change reading options for the current document
While using a screen reader to read PDFs, users can change the reading settings for the current
document like reading order and mode.
1. Click Accessibility > Setup > Reading Option.
2. Choose the desired reading options and click Start.
Note: The preferences set here are only valid for the current document, whereas the settings with
Setup Assistant are the default for all documents and remain in effect until you change them with
Setup Assistant.
Read PDF in reflow view
The reflow view allows users to read documents on a mobile device or even a screen magnifier
without scrolling horizontally to read text by presenting pages as a single column that is the width
of the document pane.
To read PDF in reflow view, choose Home > View > Reflow, or choose View > Document Views >
Reflow.
To return to non-reflowed view, click again on the Reflow button.
Note:
1. Text in comments and form fields does not reflow and vertical text reflows horizontally.
2. The reflow view only provides a view mode, without making any changes to the document.
Shortcut keys
PhantomPDF provides users with single-key accelerators for accessibility to navigate PDF.
Create accessible PDFs (Business only)
Accessible PDF documents have content and elements including searchable text, alternate text
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
261
descriptions for images/interactive form fields, reading order, and document tags, to enable people
with disabilities to work on them with or without screen readers or other assistive
software/hardware. Foxit PhantomPDF provides commands to help make your PDF accessible by
tagging PDFs and form fields, setting alternate text, and editing tags.
Tag PDF documents and form fields
In PDF files, tags indicate the structure of documents and define the logic that binds the content
together including the correct reading order, and the presence and meaning of figures, which can
work better with the assistive technology like screen readers. To check whether a PDF is tagged,
navigate to File > Properties > Description > Tagged PDF.
It is recommended that you tag a document when converting it to PDF from an authoring
application, but if you do not have access to an authoring application that can generate a tagged
PDF, you can tag a PDF any time with PhantomPDF Business.
To tag a PDF, open the document and click the Autotag Document command in the Accessibility
tab. Then the tags of the document are created and you can view the tags in the Tags panel in the
navigation pane. If the document already has tags, you’ll be prompted whether to re-tag the
document.
To tag form fields in PDF, please click the Autotag Form Field command in the Accessibility tab.
After the tagging completes, a tag recognition report is generated in the Recognition Report panel
in the navigation pane. You can use the report as a guide to repair tagging problems.
Set alternate text for figures with the Set Alternate Text command
To set alternate text for figures in your PDF, please do the following:
1. Click the Set Alternate Text command in the Accessibility tab.
2. A dialog box pops up to tell you PhantomPDF will detect all figures in the document and display
associated alternate text.
3. Click OK and type descriptive alternate text for the figure in the Set Alternate Text dialog box.
If the figure is used only for decorative purposes, check Decorative figure.
4. Click the arrows at the top of the Set Alternate Text dialog box to set alternate text for the next
figure or previous figure.
5. After completing setting for all figures, click Save & Close.
Check reading order and edit tags with the Reading Order command
Reading order and document structure tags are two important characteristics of accessible PDFs.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
262
The Reading Order command helps you easily check the reading order and edit tags for PDFs.
However, the command is used to fix basic tagging problems for PDFs that were tagged with Foxit
PhantomPDF, not for PDFs that were tagged during conversion from an authoring application. If
possible, try to return to the source file and add accessibility features in the authoring application.
Check the reading order for a tagged PDF
1. Open a tagged PDF document and click Accessibility > Setup > Reading Order.
2. The Touch Up Reading Order dialog box pops up, with options including different tag types
and the way to show page content groups.
3. In the document area, you can see the page content displays in separate regions highlighted
with gray blocks.
4. If you choose Page content order under the Show page content groups option, the regions
are ordered with numbers. Choose Structure types, then the regions are labeled by structure
tag types, like “P” for paragraph, “H2” for Heading 2, or “Figure”.
Edit tags with the Reading Order command
You can tag a selected region, change the tag type for a region, as well as remove some useless
page elements, with the Reading Order command. Since editing tags with the Reading Order
command doesn’t create the same level of details to the tagging structure as the tools in the
Autotag group, you can use this manual tagging if you don’t have any better method to edit the
tags.
Note: Editing tags with the Reading Order command can’t be undone, so it is recommended that
you save a backup copy of this document before you edit tags.
Tag a region
1. Click Accessibility > Setup > Reading Order to open the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box.
2. Drag to select a region of the page content in the document area.
3. Choose the desired tag type in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box to tag the selected
region.
4. Options in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box:
Text – Chooses it to tag the selected region as text.
Figure – Tags the selected region as a figure.
Form Field - Tags the selected region as a form field.
Figure/Caption – Tags a selected figure and caption as a single tag. Then all the text content in
the tag is the caption, which is useful to tag photos and captions, preventing caption text from
being incorrectly added to the text around. For the figures, alternate text may be required.
Heading 1/ Heading 2/ Heading 3/ Heading 4/ Heading 5/ Heading 6 – Tags the selected
region as a first/second/third/fourth/fifth/sixth level heading.
Table – Tags the selected region as a table.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
263
Cell – Tags the selected region as a header or header cell. The option is often used to merge
cells that are incorrectly split.
Formula – Tags the selected region as a formula. You many need to set alternate text for
formula tags for speech software to easily handle them.
Background – Tags the selected region as a background element. A background element
neither appears in the tags tree nor in the reflowed document, and screen readers don’t read
it.
Show Page Content Groups – Checks the option to show the page content by the page content
order or the structure types. If you choose Page content order under the Show page content
groups option, the regions are ordered with a number. Choose Structure types, then the
regions are labeled by structure tag types, like “P” for paragraph, “H2” for Heading 2, or
“Figure”.
Show Order Panel – Clicks it to open the Order panel in the navigation pane.
5. Click Close.
Change the tag for a region
1. Click Accessibility > Setup > Reading Order, the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box pops up.
2. Draw a rectangle in the page content or click the number of a highlighted region, and choose
a tag type from the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box that you want to change to.
3. (Optional) Click Show Order Panel in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box to open the Order
panel in the navigation pane. See also The Order panel.
4. Click Close.
Remove page elements from the tag structure
Some page elements that don’t contain useful or illustrative information and shouldn’t be read,
like decorative lines, artifacts, or background elements, can make the structure layout untidy and
cause some chaos when they are reflowed or read by screen readers. You can remove these page
elements from the tagging structure by changing them to the Background tags.
1. Select Reading Order in the Accessibility tab.
2. Select the page element in document pane, and choose Background in the Touch Up Reading
Order dialog box to tag the selected page element as Background.
Check and correct figure tags
Figures tags should identify image content that is meaningful to the document. Sometimes
background elements that are not necessary to be read are incorrectly tagged as figures, and you
need to redefine them as background. You can use the Reading Order command to check and
correct tagging problems for figures.
Select Reading Order in the Accessibility tab, then do one of the following:
If a figure isn’t tagged as a figure, drag to select the content and choose Figure or
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
264
Figure/Caption in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box.
If text is incorrectly combined with a figure, drag to select the content and choose Text in the
Touch Up Reading Order dialog box.
If a figure and a caption are separated, drag to select the content and choose Figure/Caption
in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box.
The Order panel
Click the icon in the navigation pane to open the Order panel where you can view the reading
order and retag content by right-clicking the content and choosing desired command in the context
menu. For details, please refer to the Reading Order command.
Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
For the content reflow and tagging problems that cannot be fixed by the Reading Order command,
the Content and Tags panels provide you with more options to handle them.
Check and correct reflow problems with the Content panel
In the Content panel in the navigation pane, you can view pages and objects, and correct reflow
problems in a PDF. The panel provides a hierarchical view of objects including pages, annotations
(like comments, form fields, and links), and containers. In the panel, objects are listed in the order
in which they appear on the page.
In the Content panel, you can perform actions as below:
You can move a container or object by selecting it and drag it to the desired location.
Right-click a page or an object and choose an option from the context menu.
New Container – Creates a new container object at the end of the selected page or container.
Create Artifact – Sets the selected object as artifact. Page numbers, headers, and footers are
often best tagged as artifacts, which are not read by screen readers or the Read Out Loud
feature.
Show in Tags Panel – Switches to the Tags panel with the tag corresponding to the current
content selected.
Highlight Content – Checks the option, and the content in the document corresponding to the
selected content in the Content panel will be highlighted with a box around.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
265
Properties – Opens the Object Properties dialog box.
View tags in the Tags panel
You can view a logical structure tree of tags in the Tags panel that represent the organizational
structure of the document and define the reading order. The tags tree shows the document content
as page elements (such as headings, paragraphs, and tables) nested at various levels. Assistive
software determines how to present and interpret the document content according to the tags
tree.
To view tags in the Tags panel, click the Tags panel in the navigation pane.
Edit tags with the Tags panel
You can move a tag, and edit the properties (such as title and type) of a tag in the Tags panel. By
right-clicking a tag, you can choose the following options:
New Tag… – Creates a new tag after the selected item in the tags tree. Then specify the type
and title of the new tag.
Cut – Cuts and copies the selected tag.
Paste – Pastes the copied tag below the selected tag at the same level.
Paste Child – Pastes the copied tag as the child tag of the selected tag.
Delete Tag – Removes the tag from the tags tree. If you remove the root (topmost) tag, all tags
in the document will be removed.
Tag Annotations – Checks this option, and all new comments and form fields will be
automatically added to the tags tree after the selected tag. The option is not available for the
existing comments and form fields.
Document is Tagged PDF – Flags the PDF as a tagged document. If unchecked, the flag will be
removed.
Highlight Content – Checks this option, and the content in the document corresponding to the
selected tag in the Tags panel will be highlighted with a box around.
Properties… - Opens the Object Properties dialog box.
Move a tag
To move a tag in the Tags panel, do either of the following:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
266
Select the tag that you want to move and drag it to the desired location. The Line icon
shows the place where the tag will be located as you drag the tag.
Right-click the tag you want to move and choose Cut from the context menu. Then right-
click a tag that you want to paste and choose Paste or Paste Child.
Edit the tag properties
To edit the tag properties, do the following steps:
1. Right-click the tag you want to edit and choose Properties….
2. In the Object Properties dialog box, change the information as needed.
Add alternate text to tags for links, figures, and abbreviations
For accessibility, you need to add alternate text and other supplementary information (like specific
language) to tags for links, figures, and abbreviations in the document. You can add the information
to a tag in the Tags panel.
1. Right-click the <Link> tag, <Figure> tag, or the abbreviated term in the tags tree in the Tags
panel, and choose Properties….
2. In the Object Properties dialog box, click the Tag tab.
3. Type text in the Alternate Text box. You can also edit other information as needed in the dialog
box.
4. Click Close.
Check and correct table elements
You can view the table elements in the Tags panel and correct elements that are not correctly
tagged with the Reading Order command.
1. Find the table tag <Table> in the Tags panel.
2. Check whether it is a correctly structured table which should meet either of the following
structuring of table elements:
Each Table Row contains Table Header <TH> or Table Data <TD> cells, or both.
For <THead>, <TBody>, and <TFoot> sections, each of them contains Table Rows.
3. If the table’s rows, columns, and cells appear in the document, but the table tag doesn’t
contain some of the elements mentioned above, tag the related element with the Reading
Order command. Alternatively, re-create the table in the authoring application and then
convert it to a tagged PDF.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
267
Chapter 14 – Print
Printing is a process for reproducing text and images. When you have finished reading a helpful
article or designing a PDF form, you may need to send it to an inkjet or laser printer and print it out
with custom page sizes. With this section, you can get the help to set options in the Print dialog
box to ensure that the finished document appears as intended.
Print a PDF document
1. Make sure you have installed the printer successfully.
2. Choose Print from the File page.
3. Specify the printer or plotter, page range, number of copies, and other options.
4. Click Print.
Print a portion of a page
To print a portion of a page, you need to refer to the Snapshot command .
- Select the Snapshot command by choosing Home >Tools > Snapshot.
- Drag around the area you want to print.
- Right-click in the selected area > choose Print…, and then refer to the “Print Dialog”.
Print multiple pages with page thumbnails
To perform a quick print, you can select multiple pages from a document from the thumbnail list.
Open the document that you want to print, and then click Pages button on the left navigation
pane.
Shift-click / Ctrl-click/ drag the mouse to select a range of page thumbnails from the document.
Select Print Pages from the right-click menu, and then click OK.
Print from Bookmarks
You can choose to print PDF pages associated with the selected bookmarks from the Bookmarks
panel in the navigation pane.
1. In the navigation pane, click the Bookmarks panel and select a bookmark you want to print.
(Ctrl-click to choose multiple bookmarks.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
268
2. Right-click the selected bookmarks and choose Print Page(s) or Print Section(s) from the
context menu.
Print Page(s): Only print the pages where the selected bookmarks (including child bookmarks)
are.
Print Section(s): Print all the pages in the bookmarked sections (including child bookmarks).
3. In the Print dialog box, choose Foxit PhantomPDF Printer from the Name box and choose other
printing options as needed. See “Print Dialog”.
4. Click Print. In the pop-up dialog box, specify the file name and its storage location, and click
Save.
5. The generated PDF will be opened automatically after the printing process completes.
Print tabs
You can print one tab you are opening from the tab bar or print out all documents opened in the
tab bar at a time.
1. Move the pointer to the tab bar.
2. Right-click it > Choose Print Current Tab/Print All Tabs.
The Print Dialog Box
The print dialog is the final step before printing. You can modify the printer settings in this dialog
as well. Be aware that changing the printer may affect the page setup if the new selected printer
has a different paper size, for instance.
To open the Print dialog box, choose File > Print. Choose a printer from the menu at the top of the
Print dialog box and specify the copies to print. Click Properties for more settings. (Refer to “Set
Foxit PhantomPDF Printer Properties”)
Collate – Assembles the printouts in a proper numerical or logical order when printing several
copies. This option will be disabled when printing just one copy.
Print as Grayscale –Converts color images in the file to shades of gray.
Print as image –Prints pages as bitmap images. If normal printing doesn’t work or doesn’t
produce well, check this option.
Print Range
Specify the page range you want to print.
Subset – Provides options for setting noncontiguous page range.
All Pages in Range – Prints all the pages within the specified range.
Odd pages only – Prints only pages with odd numbers within the specified range.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
269
Even pages only – Prints only pages with even numbers within the specified range.
Note: This option is especially helpful for two-side printing.
Reverse pages – Prints pages in reverse order. If page ranges are entered, the pages print
opposite of the order in which they were entered. For example, if you select to print the
document from page 5 to page 30, selecting Reverse pages option will print page 30 to page
5.
Print Handling
Scale – None, Fit to Printer Margins, Reduce to Printer Margins and Custom Scale.
Choose Paper Source by PDF Page Size – Automatically selects the paper type according to
the page size of the PDFs when printing.
Tile Large Pages – means to tile the pages that are larger than the selected paper size at a
specified scale.
Multiple Pages Per Sheet – multiple pages will be printed on the same sheet of paper. You
can specify the settings like Pages Per Sheet, Page Order, Margins, etc.
Booklet – Booklet printing enables to print multiple pages on the same sheet of paper in
correct order if the pages are folded. This requires the printer support to print on both sides.
Orientation – Selects a page orientation to print the document in.
Print on both sides of paper – To print double-sided pages, enable this option and choose the
desired orientation.
Auto-Rotate – Adjusts the PDF document’s orientation to match the orientation specified in
the printer properties.
Auto-Center – Places the PDF pages in the center.
Advanced – Provides an option to auto-detect printers that support PCL for PCL optimization
to improve the printing speed.
Print Optimization allows you to optimize print jobs from a PCL driver, for features such as
font substitution or scanning for vertical and horizontal rules. Foxit PhantomPDF provides an
option to auto-detect printers that support PCL for PCL optimization to improve the printing
speed. To enable print optimization, please follow the steps below:
Choose File > Print to open Print dialog.
Click Advanced on the left lower corner of the Print dialog.
In the Advanced dialog, do the following:
Check PCL Optimization option;
Select a printer from Printers list, and click Add to add the selected printer to PCL
Optimization Drivers list.
Click OK.
Then you can execute printings with the optimized driver. And you can also remove the printer
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
270
from the PCL Optimization Drivers list if you are not satisfied with the printing results it
delivers. Just select the driver to be removed from the PCL Optimization Drivers list, click
Remove and then choose OK to confirmation the operation.
Print What – Specifies to print documents only, annotations only, or both.
Document – Prints the document contents without annotations.
Document and Annotations – Prints document contents and annotations.
Annotations – Prints annotations only.
Summarize Comments – Prints the summarized comments to a separate and printable PDF
file named “CommentsSummaryPrint.pdf”. See also “Summarize Comments”.
Preview – Foxit PhantomPDF provides an instant preview in the Print dialog box. Drag the slider
to preview each page.
Set Foxit PhantomPDF Printer Properties
Before you create a PDF file, you may wish to access PDF Printing Preferences to set up options for
your PDF files, there are two ways to access PDF Printing Preferences.
1. Accessing the PDF printing Preferences from Control Panel:
For Windows 8 and 10, go to Start > Windows System > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound >
Devices and Printers > Printers. For Windows 7, go to Start > Control Panel > Devices and
Printers > Printers and Faxes.
Right-click on the Foxit PhantomPDF Printer and then select Printing Preferences.
2. Accessing the PDF Printing Preferences from the Print dialog box.
When you print a file and open the Print dialog box, simply click on the Properties button,
you can bring up the PDF Printing Preferences.
General tab
Target Folder – You can click Browse to specify a default destination folder to store all of the
PDF files generated, and the names of the generated PDF files will be the same as the originals
by default. If no target folder is specified, a dialog box will prompt for you to specify a name
and location for the PDF.
If File Exists – If a PDF file that has the same name and path as the generated PDF file already
exists, you can overwrite the existing file, add a numeric suffix to the name of the generated
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
271
document automatically to avoid overwriting the existing files, or choose Prompt User to be
prompted to rename the file.
Compatible With - With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can choose the version number from 1.3 to
1.7 when creating PDFs. Choosing the right PDF reference version can help the PDFs to be
better compatible with different PDF viewers.
View PDF Results – Once the conversion is finished, the converted PDF will be opened with
PhantomPDF automatically. This option is checked by default.
Optimize for fast web view – Creates a linearized PDF that can be opened and viewed even
before the whole file is downloaded.
Conversion Quality
Default settings – chooses a type of conversion quality as the default setting.
High Quality Print: creates PDF files for high quality print but with relatively large file
sizes.
PDF/A-1b: creates PDF files in compliance with PDF/A-1b standard.
Smallest File Size: creates PDF files used for web distribution.
Standard: creates PDF files with a balance between print quality and file size.
Click Edit button to modify the conversion quality and save the modified settings as a
new printing setting which will be added to Default settings list. (See also “Custom Scan”)
Color – Prints content in a color PDF file to shades of gray, in colors or only in black and
white colors.
Image Resolution - allows you to input a DPI (dot per inch) level for image resolution.
The valid level value is between 72 -2400.
Save As Default - If you hope all your settings can be applied to all documents, you must keep
the option checked. If you uncheck it, your settings will be effective for the current document
only.
Advanced settings… - In the pop-up Advanced settings dialog box, there are three tabs:
Watermarks, Headers/Footers and Security.
Watermarks tab
Add watermarks to the document – If you want to add watermarks to your document, you can
select this option and choose to add Image Watermarks or Text Watermarks.
Image watermarks–You can browse your computer for an image and change the Opacity, Rotation
and Offsets of the image which will be added into your document as a watermark.
Text Watermarks
Font
This option is activated only when Text Watermarks is selected and you can choose the font name,
font size and font color from the drop-down menus.
Text
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
272
You can enter text in the Content box and change the Opacity and Rotation of the text which will
be added into your document as a watermark.
Offsets
This option allows you to change the unit of measurement and specify the width, height of the
image/text, etc.
Scale
A. To resize the watermark in relation to the original image size, check Absolute Scale and enter a
number in the percentage box.
B. To resize the watermark in relation to the PDF page dimensions, check Relative Scale and enter
a number in the percentage box.
Preview
You can see how the watermark will look like with the selected options.
Save As Default
Check to apply all of your watermark settings to all documents. If you uncheck it, your settings will
be effective for the current document only.
Headers/Footers tab
Add Headers/Footers to the Document
This option allows you to add headers/footers to your PDF document. By checking this option, the
following options will be activated.
Font
You can choose the font name, font size and font color from the boxes.
Edit
This option allows you to edit headers/footers and you can specify their styles.
Click Insert Date to insert date to the PDF document.
Click Insert Page Num to insert page number to the PDF document.
You can enter text in the columns (Left Column, Center Column and Right Column) if needed.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
273
Offsets
This option allows you to change the unit of measurement and specify the margins for all 4 sides.
Preview
You can see how the headers/footers will look with the selected options.
Save As Default
Check to apply all of your headers/footers settings to all documents. If you uncheck it, your settings
will be effective for the current document only.
Security tab
The security feature of PDF gives you exceptional control over PDF files. Choose a protection type.
1. Password Protection
See also Password Protection in the Security chapter.
2. Certificate Protection
See also Certificate Protection in the Security chapter.
3. RMS Protection (Available in Business Edition Only)
See also AD RMS Protection in the Security chapter.
Save As Default
Check to apply all your security settings to all documents. If you uncheck it, your settings will be
effective for the current document only.
Layout tab
Orientation - Allows you to change the page orientation.
Page Size - This option is for you to choose one of paper types from the list, or click Custom
Page Size and then add a new page size where you can specify the paper size dimensions in
the Add/Edit Custom Page Sizes box.
Unit of Metrics - Allows you to change the unit of measurement, including inches, centimeter
and millimeters.
You can see how your document layout will look with the selected options.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
274
Document Info tab
Add information to the document –This option allows you to set PDF document properties, such
as Title, Subject, Author, etc. You can add information when it is checked.
PDF Information – You can enter the title, subject, author, keywords and creator of the document.
Producer is the Foxit PhantomPDF.
About tab
This tab shows the information of Foxit PhantomPDF and the related copyrights and information.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
275
Chapter 15 – Appendices
This section is a collection of supplementary materials for this user manual as well as Keyboard
Shortcuts, and Command Lines.
Quick Installation Guide
GPO Manual
SharePoint Configuration
Quick Start for Azure Active Directory Rights Management
Web Service Configuration
Shortcut Keys
Command Lines
Quick Installation Guide
This section gives you an overview of Foxit PhantomPDF, including installation, activation,
uninstallation and update.
Installation, Activation, Deactivation, and Uninstallation
Installing Foxit PhantomPDF
System Requirements
Operating Systems
Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit).
Windows 8.x Full Version.
Windows 10.
Microsoft Office® 2007 or later version (required for some PDF creation features).
Verified as Citrix Ready® with Citrix XenApp® 7.13.
Recommended Minimum Hardware for Better Performance
1.3 GHz or faster processor.
512 MB RAM (Recommended: 1 GB RAM or greater).
2G of available hard drive space.
1024*768 screen resolution.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
276
How to Install
The installer format of Foxit PhantomPDF is MSI. Please download the installer to your computer,
and then do the following (Take Business Edition for example):
1. Double click the “FoxitPhantomPDF_Business_enu_Setup.msi” file, and you will see the setup
wizard pop up. Click Next to continue.
2. Foxit PhantomPDF is protected by copyright law, so in order to proceed, you must accept the
License Agreement. Check the I accept the terms in the License Agreement box to continue.
3. There are two installation setup types for Foxit PhantomPDF. The user has the ability to
change the installation directory or to keep the default settings.
Typical — Installs all features by default, which requires more disk space.
Custom — Allows users to choose which program features will be installed.
4. For Typical Setup, just click Install. For Custom Setup, do the following:
A) Click on “Browse” to change the installation directory of the PDF Viewer plug-in.
B) Click “Disk Usage” to check the disk space available for the selected features.
C) Check the options you want to install and click “Next” to continue.
D) Select the additional tasks you would like the Setup to perform, then click “Install” to
start the installation.
5. When the process is complete, a dialog box will notify the user that Foxit PhantomPDF is
installed. You can choose to check the Launch Foxit PhantomPDF box to run the application
right after installation. Click Finish to complete the installation.
Command-line Installation
You can also use the command-line to install the application:
msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter] [PROPERTY=PropertyValue]
For more detailed information on msiexec.exe, as well as required and optional parameters, type
“msiexec” in the command line or visit Microsoft TechNet Help Center.
Public Properties of the Foxit PhantomPDF MSI Installation Package.
Foxit PhantomPDF installation properties supplement the standard MSI public properties to give
administrators greater control over the installation of the application.
For the complete list of standard public properties, please refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa370905(VS.85).aspx
The Foxit PhantomPDF properties are:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADDLOCAL <list of features> The value of the ADDLOCAL property is a comma-delimited list
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
277
of features that the installation of Foxit PhantomPDF will make
locally available. Foxit PhantomPDF installer is composed of the
following features:
FX_PDFVIEWER - Foxit PDF Viewer and its components.
FX_FIREFOXPLUGIN – A plugin used for opening PDF files in
Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome browsers. This
feature requires FX_PDFVIEWER to be installed.
FX_EALS – A module used for displaying Eastern Asian
Languages. Eastern Asian Languages can't be displayed properly
without it. This feature requires FX_PDFVIEWER to be installed.
FX_SPELLCHECK - A tool used for searching any misspelled
words in typewriter or form filler mode. This tool also suggests
the correct spelling for common mistakes. This feature requires
FX_PDFVIEWER to be installed.
FX_PDFA – A module used for verifying compliance with PDF/A-
1a and PDF/A-1b. This feature requires FX_PDFVIEWER to be
installed.
FX_OCR – A module used for making scanned or image-based
PDF documents selectable and searchable. This feature requires
FX_PDFVIEWER to be installed.
FX_CREATOR - Foxit PhantomPDF Creator installs a virtual
printer on your system. Creator can convert any printable
documents into high-quality PDFs conveniently and efficiently.
This feature requires FX_PDFVIEWER to be installed.
FX_CONVERTEXT - Shell extension used for converting PDFs or
combining supported files from the right click menu. This
feature requires FX_CREATOR to be installed.
FX_CREATORWORDADDIN - MS Word toolbar add-in to create
PDFs in just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR to be
installed.
FX_CREATOREXCELADDIN - MS Excel toolbar add-in to create
PDFs in just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR to be
installed.
FX_CREATORPPTADDIN - MS PPT toolbar add-in to create PDFs
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
278
in just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR to be
installed.
FX_CREATOROUTLOOKADDIN - MS Outlook toolbar add-in to
create PDFs in just one click. This feature requires FX_CREATOR
to be installed.
FX_SE - Plugins for Windows Explorer and Windows shell. These
extensions allow PDF thumbnails to be viewed in Windows
Explorer, and PDF files to be previewed in Windows OS and
Office 2007 (or a later version). This feature requires
FX_PDFVIEWER to be installed.
FX_IFILTER – Foxit PDF IFilter is a plugin for Windows search
engines that can help search PDF documents quickly.
FX_CONNECTEDPDF – A plugin that provides ConnectedPDF
features including creation, sharing, securing, and tracking of
PDF documents worldwide.
FX_BROWSERADDIN - The web browser plugin used for
converting web pages to PDFs.
INSTALLLOCATION Specifies the folder location of the product installed.
MAKEDEFAULT Default value of "1", Foxit PhantomPDF will be set as the
default application for opening PDF files.
VIEW_IN_BROWSER Default value of "1", Foxit PhantomPDF will be configured to
open PDF files inside browsers.
DESKTOP_SHORTCUT Default value of "1", installer will place a shortcut for the
installed application on the Desktop.
STARTMENU_SHORTCUT Default value of "1", installer will create a program menu group
for installed application and its components.
SETDEFAULTPRINTER Default value of "1", installer will install Foxit PhantomPDF
Printer and set it as the system’s default printer.
LAUNCHCHECKDEFAULT Default value of "1", Foxit PhantomPDF will check if Foxit
PhantomPDF is the default reader when launched.
KEYPATH Specifies a license key file and saves it to the PhantomPDF
installation folder.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
279
REMOVENEWVERSION Forces an installation to overwrite the newer version of Foxit
PhantomPDF with the value of “1”.
CLEAN Executes with the command “/uninstall”, removing all of
PhantomPDF’s registry data and related files with the value of
“1”. (Note: This is a command for uninstallation.)
AUTO_UPDATE Does not download or install updates automatically with the
value of “0”; Automatically checks for updates and downloads
updates if any, but lets users choose when to install them with
the value of “1”; Automatically installs updates with the value
of “2”. The default value is “1”.
CPDF_DISABLE Disables the ConnectedPDF features by setting the value to “1”.
EDITION Specifies an edition to install Foxit PhantomPDF, including
Standard, Business, and Education.
NOTINSTALLUPDATE Does not install updates by setting the value to “1”. This will
prevent Foxit PhantomPDF from being updated from within the
software.
INTERNET_DISABLE Disables all features that require Internet connection by setting
the value to “1”.
READ_MODE Opens PDF file in Read Mode by default in web browsers by setting
the value to “1”.
DISABLE_UNINSTALL_SURVEY Stops the Uninstall Survey after uninstallation by setting the
value to “1”.
KEYCODE Activates the application by key code.
EMBEDDED_PDF_INOFFICE With the value of “1”, opens embedded PDF files in Microsoft
Office with Foxit PhantomPDF if Acrobat and Foxit Reader is not
installed. (For the EXE installation package, inputs the command-
line /displayadobeindoc.)
Command-line Examples:
1. Silently install the application (no user interaction) to folder "C:\Program Files\Foxit Software":
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
280
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" /quiet INSTALLLOCATION="C:\Program Files\ Foxit
Software "
2. Install the Foxit PDF Viewer only:
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" /quiet ADDLOCAL="FX_PDFVIEWER "
3. Use the license key file saved in disk C to activate the application when running the setup:
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" KEYPATH="C:\fpmkey.txt"
4. No installation of Foxit PhantomPDF Printer:
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" ADDLOCAL=ALL, ADVERTISE="FX_CREATOR" /qn
5. Force an installation to overwrite the same or higher version of Foxit PhantomPDF:
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" REMOVENEWVERSION="1"
6. Remove registry and user data when performing silent uninstallation:
msiexec /x "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" /quiet CLEAN="1"
7. Install the application without ConnectedPDF related features and services:
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" ADDLOCAL=ALL, ADVERTISE="FX_CONNECTEDPDF"
8. Activate the application by key code:
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" KEYCODE="your key code"
9. Install the application without Foxit PhantomPDF Create PDF Toolbar
msiexec /i "Foxit PhantomPDF.msi" ADDLOCAL=ALL, ADVERTISE="FX_BROWSERADDIN"
Activating Foxit PhantomPDF
After launching Foxit PhantomPDF, the activation wizard pops up. If you have already purchased a
license for Foxit PhantomPDF, click Activate to activate Foxit PhantomPDF. If not, you can click Buy
Now to purchase Foxit PhantomPDF from the Foxit website. If you choose Free Trial, you will be
given a 14-day free trial period to use Foxit PhantomPDF. When the free-trial period expires, only
the free features are available.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
281
If you have purchased subscription licensing, after clicking Activate, you can choose to sign in
your Foxit account. After successfully signed in, the Foxit PhantomPDF will be activated
automatically.
If you have purchased a perpetual license, please follow the steps below to activate Foxit
PhantomPDF:
1. After clicking Activate, input the code of the registration key. (You can activate the key at
a later time from Help > Activate when you run Foxit PhantomPDF.) Then click Activate to
continue.
2. (Optional) If you didn’t provide your name when purchasing the license, you’ll be
prompted to type your name.
3. If the activation is successful, a message box will pop up. Click OK.
4. You should restart the application for the changes to take effect. To restart it now, please
click OK; or click Cancel to restart later.
Deactivating Foxit PhantomPDF
You can deactivate Foxit PhantomPDF in one machine to activate another. After deactivation you
can still use the features of Foxit PhantomPDF Express. To deactivate Foxit PhantomPDF, click Help >
Deactivate.
Uninstalling Foxit PhantomPDF
How to Uninstall
Please do one of the following:
Click Start > All Programs > Foxit PhantomPDF > Uninstall.
For Windows 8 and 10, click Start > Windows System > Control Panel > Programs > Programs
and Features > Select Foxit PhantomPDF and click Uninstall. For Windows 7, click Start >
Control Panel > Programs and Features to uninstall it.
Double click the file uninstall.exe under the Foxit PhantomPDF installation directory drive
name: \...\Foxit Software\Foxit PhantomPDF\.
Foxit PhantomPDF Add-ons
Foxit PhantomPDF provides separate add-ons for you to download on demand. These add-ons fall
into critical add-ons and advanced add-ons. Most of add-ons, including JPEG2000/JBIG Decoder,
Eastern Asian Language Support, Spell Checker and Firefox Plugins, have been integrated into Foxit
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
282
PhantomPDF package, so users don’t need to install them again after the installation of Foxit
PhantomPDF. But if there’re any upgrades of those add-ons, users can go to Help > Check for
Update to download and install the latest add-ons.
Critical Add-ons
Critical add-ons are essential components for proper display and execution.
Free Critical Add-ons in Foxit PhantomPDF
Name
Function Description
Size
Remark
Multi-langue
OCR Text
Recognition
Engines
Enables selecting and searching text in scanned or image-based
PDFs. This add-on supports multi-language: Portuguese, Polish,
Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese & Traditional
Chinese, Turkish and Dutch, etc. (For Chinese, Japanese and Korean,
you should download from our website, and the others have been
integrated into Foxit PhantomPDF package.)
Download
NOTE: To manually install a critical add-on, please extract it to the same directory where you install
Foxit PhantomPDF. See also “Updating Foxit PhantomPDF”.
Purchasing Foxit PhantomPDF
Foxit PhantomPDF provides two licensing models: perpetual licensing and subscription licensing.
The former allows users to use PhantomPDF without expiration dates, while the latter enables
users to pay for a monthly/yearly usage fee, with full features available for both.
To purchase Foxit PhantomPDF, please do one of the following:
1. Order online: go to Foxit website to order directly: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/shopping
2. Email: write an e-mail to the Foxit sales department at sales@foxitsoftware.com with your
order information.
3. Click HELP/HOME > Purchase in the PhantomPDF toolbar to purchase a license from the Foxit
online store.
4. Click HELP/HOME > Subscribe in the PhantomPDF toolbar to quickly purchase a non-
perpetual license or renew the subscription if the previous one ends. The licensee has the
rights to manage the authorized machines by clicking Manage to disable current activation(s).
(Note: Internet connection and Foxit account signed-in are required to use the full features for
subscribed users.)
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
283
Updating Foxit PhantomPDF
Foxit files along with add-ons can be updated in several ways. Some updates are available if you
open a PDF document that triggers the updating process. For example, if you open a file that
contains Chinese characters, Foxit PhantomPDF will ask if you want to download the Eastern Asian
Language Support. Other updates are available only from the Help menu, where you have to
manually install them. However, all updates can be downloaded directly from Foxit website. Foxit
PhantomPDF supports auto-update checking. When there is a new version detected, Foxit
PhantomPDF will prompt users to update.
Updating from the Help Menu
1. Choose Help > Check for Update.
2. In the pop-up dialog box, select updates from the column on the left, and click Add to move
them to the right column. Only the updates and components appropriate for your product
will be listed. Click Next to download and install the update.
Updating from Foxit Website
1. Visit Foxit Download page at http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ .
2. Select and download the files or add-ons you want to update.
3. Extract them to the same directory where you installed Foxit PhantomPDF.
4. Re-run the Foxit PhantomPDF program to implement the update files.
Help & Support
User Manual
If you have trouble finding help for a particular topic or the help provided is not sufficient, enter a
trouble ticket via our Support Portal and our support team will contact you. Your feedback helps
us to improve our documentation.
Ticket Support
Visit Foxit Ticket Support System by choosing Help > Help > Post Your Idea, to send your bug
report/suggestion/comment directly to Foxit Customer Support Center.
On-Line Support 24/7
Our ticket support system is staffed with product experts round the clock to provide you with fast
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
284
and efficient answers to all of your technical questions. Plus, our on-line user forums provide a
wealth of information.
Foxit Forum
Visit Foxit forum at http://forums.foxitsoftware.com/ to see if you can find the answer to your
questions there immediately.
GPO Manual
What is Group Policy?
Group Policy (GPO), a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems, is a set of
rules that control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. It offers the
centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users' settings
in an Active Directory environment.
Group Policy can configure most system settings, save power by utilizing smart power settings,
give individual users more control over their machines with administrator privileges and increase
system security.
This guide will introduce steps to help you master how to quickly add and modify the new GPO
template for configuring your installation of Foxit PhantomPDF.
Personal Computer Setting
There are two file types of group policy template of Foxit PhantomPDF: .adm and .admx. Different
types are compatible with different operation systems, but have the same settings. The template
of .adm file type is compatible with Windows XP and later, while .admx is compatible with Server
2008, Server 2012, Windows 7 and later.
Set Template Preference
For .adm file, follow the steps as below:
- Please click Start > Run or use the shortcut key Ctrl + R and type gpedit.msc to open Group
Policy Editor.
- Right-click the management template and choose Add/Remove Template in the context
menu. In the opened dialogue box, add the group policy template of Foxit PhantomPDF. The
Foxit PhantomPDF template will appear in the left navigation pane and you can set its
template preferences.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
285
For .admx file, put the .admx file in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions and do the setting. The .admx
file should be used in combination with an .adml file. And the .adml file should be put in
C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\language. For example, if in the English OS, the .adml file should be
put in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en_us.
Example: Not Show Community Language
- Choose Foxit PhantomPDF > Preferences > Application Language.
- Double-click Application Language to open the dialog box and check the option Enabled and
check Not Show Community Language. Then only the official languages will show in the File >
Preferences > Language.
- If the option Not Configured or Disabled is checked, the languages translated by community
will be displayed.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
286
- Other settings can be configured in the same way.
- To add tools to the default toolbar menu, please go to Foxit PhantomPDF > Toolbars > Custom
Toolbars > double-click the target menu, check Enabled and check the desired tools to be
shown on the default toolbar.
Note: Group Policy setting includes computer configuration and user configuration.
Computer configuration takes precedence over user configuration. The application will use the
computer configuration if both the computer and user configure a specific function at the same
time. Please note that if the option Disabled is a valid configuration, the setting will be shown in
the help information. Otherwise, the corresponding registry entry will be removed as selecting
Unconfigured. (The value of the option Disabled in the Group Policy Template of Foxit PhantomPDF
is invalid.)
GPO Deployment (for Server)
Create GPO Management
- If you already have an Active Directory domain and organizational unit configured, please skip
to “Apply the Foxit Template” section.
- Choose Start > Administration Tools > open “Active Directory Users and Computers” > right-
click the field “wx.com” > choose New > Organization Unit.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
287
- In the opened New Object - Organization Unit dialogue box, type the unit name (For this
example, we have named the unit “qa”) and click OK.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
288
- Right click the created organization unit “qa” and choose New > User. For this example, we
have named the user “King”.
- Click Start > Programs > Administration Tools > open the Group Policy Management console
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
289
and right-click the created organization unit “qa” and choose Create a GPO in this domain,
and Link it here….
If you cannot find the Group Policy Management in Administration Tools, please install the
application package GPMC.MSI. You can download the package by clicking the link
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21895.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
290
Apply the Foxit Template
- Type the GPO name in the “New GPO” dialogue box and click OK.
- Right-click the new GPO and choose Edit… in the right-click menu to open Group Policy Editor.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
291
- Right-click the Template Management and choose Add/Remove Template to add Foxit
PhantomPDF template. Please refer to Set Template Preference.
- For configuring options, please refer to Example: Not Show Community language.
GPO Items
The following table introduces some simple manipulations in GPO to speed up your working
process.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
292
Items in GPO Template
Folder Path
Item
Options
Description
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Plugins
Remove Specific
Plugins
Input the plugin name
which needs to be
removed.
Only applications
with .fpi extensions
can be removed from
Foxit PhantomPDF.
Remove Plugins
Updater
Remove the selected
plugins.
FoxitAccountManagement
Speech
RMSV2
SharePoint
DocuSign
CommentsSummary
ComparePDF
PageEditor
ShareReview
GoogleDrivePlugin
OneDrivePlugin
EpubViewer
ActionWizard
DropboxPlugin
LicenseManager
BoxPlugin
U3DBrowser
iManage Work
OpenText eDOCS DM
NetDocuments ActiveX
NetDocuments ndOffice
Dwg2Pdf
Foxit Drive
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
‘About Foxit
PhantomPDF’
Dialog
Copyright
Set the new contents in
'About Foxit
PhantomPDF' dialog.
Copyright Content
BackGroundPath
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Default PDF Viewer
Web Browser PDF Viewer
Set Foxit PhantomPDF
as the default PDF
viewer for 'System PDF
Viewer' and 'Web
System PDF Viewer
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
293
Browser PDF Viewer'.
This setting requires
Administrator
permission. In a domain
environment, if the
client doesn’t have the
Administrator
permission, there will
be a UAC prompt after
the boot.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Forbid Checking of
Default PDF Viewer
Hide the 'Set to Default
PDF PhantomPDF'
dialog when Foxit
PhantomPDF isn't the
default PDF viewer.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Program Name
Program Name
Change the program's
name. The default is
'Foxit PhantomPDF'.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Start Page
Hide Start Page
Change the settings of
Start Page.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Enable Safe
Reading Mode
Change the settings of
Safe Reading Mode.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Application
Language
Not Show Community
Language
Change the application
language settings.
Default Application Language
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Insert Printed PDF
into Previously
Generated PDF
Set to append PDF files
generated with Foxit
PhantomPDF Printer to
previously generated
files.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Status Bar
Setting (Auto-hide Status Bar,
Hide Status Bar, or Show
Status Bar)
Change the settings of
Status Bar.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Automatically
expand notification
messages
Enable this option to
turn on the automatic
expansion of
notification messages
that prompt users to
use OCR, fill forms, etc.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
294
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Share the PDF file
that caused crash
Enable this option to
always share the PDF
file that caused crash.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Change The Link
For User Manual
UserManualPath
Enable this option to
change the link of User
Manual to the local link
you want.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Disable the
Automatically
Update
With this option
enabled, the automatic
update will be disabled.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Disable Security
Warning
Enable this option to
disable the security
warning when Foxit
PhantomPDF is
launched by a third-
party application
without a valid digital
signature.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Lock Read Mode in
web browsers
Enable this option to
use Read Mode by
default in Foxit
PhantomPDF browser
plugins, and disallow
users from exiting this
mode.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Features which
require internet
connection
Enable this option to
enable all the features
which require internet
connection.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
Filter Comments by
the original author
only
Enable this option to
filter comments by the
original author only.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Preferences
User Experience
Improvement
Enable this option to
allow anonymous data
collection.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
Ribbon
TabElements (the
button items in
Quick Access
Toolbar and menu
bar)
Hide the selected
button items in Ribbon
Mode.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
295
RibbonCategory
(the button items
in each tab)
Foxit PhantomPDF >
RMS > Preferences
Encrypt Metadata
Encrypt document
metadata. This disables
the setting in
'Preferences > RMS
Setting'.
Forbid Web
Viewing of
Protected Content
Forbid viewing of
protected content in
browsers using the Foxit
plugin.
Add ‘protected’ to
the name of
encrypted files
Append “(protected)”
to the end of the file
name of encrypted files.
Save As
Turn on the Save As
feature for RMS
protected files.
Microsoft IRM
Protection
Enable this option to
use the Microsoft IRM
version 1. If not
enabled, Microsoft IRM
Protection Version
2(PPDF) is used.
RMS
Interoperability
Enable this option, all
encrypted PDF will
conform to Microsoft
IRM Protection for PDF
Specification and hence
be able to be decrypted
by other RMS Viewer.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
ConnectedPDF
Disable
ConnectedPDF
features
Enable this setting to
disable all
ConnectedPDF features.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
ConnectedPDF
Default
ConnectedPDF
server
Server URL
Set the default
ConnectedPDF server,
the end user can use
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
296
this server URL to
connect your enterprise
ConnectedPDF server.
Foxit PhantomPDF >
ConnectedPDF >
Preferences
Allow usage data to
be used in
ConnectedPDF
features
Enable this option to
disable sharing usage
data when using
ConnectedPDF features.
Automatically save
PDF files in
ConnectedPDF
format (including
those created from
plugins) only when
signed in
Enable this option to
forbid the application
automatically save PDF
files in ConnectedPDF
format.
Automatically
convert Office files
to Connected when
converting to PDF
via office add-in
Enable this option to
forbid the application
automatically convert
Office files to
ConnectedPDF format
when converting to PDF
files.
SharePoint Configuration
Before using the check in/check out features in Foxit PhantomPDF, please configure the
SharePoint Server.
- Download PDF icon from
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/resource/images/icons/pdficon.gif.
- SharePoint 2007: Copy the downloaded.GIF file to "Drive: \Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images".
SharePoint 2010: Copy the downloaded.GIF file to "Drive:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Template\Images"
- SharePoint 2007: Edit the file “Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
server extensions\12\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML”.
SharePoint 2010: Edit the file “Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
server extensions\14\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML”.
To edit the file, please refer to the following steps:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
297
a. Right-click DOCICON.XML file > click Open With > select Notepad.
b. Add an entry for the file with .pdf extension and take it as the file’s name. For example,
type the ICPDF as the name of the .gif file:
<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdficon.gif"
OpenControl="FoxitPhantomPDF.OpenDocuments"/>
c. Click Save on the File menu, and then quit Notepad.
- Perform an iisreset:
a. Click Start > Run > type “cmd” in the Open dialog box>click OK > type “iisreset” in
the command prompt window>click Enter.
b. Close the windows.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
298
Quick Start for Azure Active Directory Rights Management
1. Enable Windows Azure AD Rights Management for your organization:
- Download the Windows Azure AD Rights Management administration module
(WindowsAzureADRightsManagementAdministration.exe) for Windows PowerShell
from here.
- In the local folder where you downloaded and saved the Rights Management
installer file, double-click the file
WindowsAzureADRightsManagementAdministration.exe to launch installation of
the Rights Management administration module.
- Open Windows PowerShell.
- Type the following commands:
Import-Module AADRM
Connect-AadrmService -Verbose
- Enter your Office 365 credentials when prompted, for
example“user@company.onmicrosoft.com”.
- Type the following commands:
Enable-Aadrm
Disconnect-AadrmService
2. Install Active Directory Rights Management Service Client 2.1:
X86 Download
X64 Download
Web Service Configuration
To use the features of dynamic revocation, number of accesses and number of prints (additional
access rights control), you should configure the web service and SQL first. Please follow the steps
as below:
1. Configure the Web Service on your on-premise RMS server.
a) Log on RMS server as Administrator.
b) Download the Web Service zip from:
For X86:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
299
http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/rms/configtool/8.x/WebService_32.zip
For X64:
http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/rms/configtool/8.x/WebService_64.zip
c) Unzip the Web Service zip and get the fxrmsext from it.
d) Copy the fxrmsext to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\_wmcs.
e) Run “Internet Information Services” (IIS).
f) Right-click “_wmcs”, and then choose “Add Application…”.
g) Input the following information into the Add Application dialog box.
- Alias: fxrmsext
- Physical path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\_wmcs\fxrmsext
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
300
h) To avoid repeated authentication, we should disable the Windows Authentication and
enable the Anonymous Authentication. Click “fxmsext” in Connections Pane, and then
double-click “Authentication”.
NOTE: For data communication security, PDFs will be encrypted with AES algorithm by
default.
i) Enable the “Anonymous Authentication” and disable the “Windows Authentication”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
301
2. Configure the SQL.
a) Navigate to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\_wmcs\fxrmsext.
b) Right-click “Web.config” file -> “Open with” -> “Notepad”.
c) If you want to log on to the SQL Server through Windows Authentication, you just need
to alter the SQL Server information by inputting the IP address or computer name and
then saving the change.
NOTE: If the computer name include ‘-’, please ensure you are using SQL 2012 version or
higher.
d) If you want to log on to the SQL Server through SQL Server Authentication, please follow
the steps:
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
302
i. Copy “Server=SQL2005; DataBase=RMSExtService; User ID=myUsername;
Password=myPassword”.
ii. Paste and replace “Server=SQL2005; DataBase=RMSExtService; Integrated
Security=SSPI; Persist Security Info=False”.
iii. Alter the SQL Server information. You can input the IP address or the computer
name.
iv. Alter the “User ID” and “Password”.
v. Save changes.
e) Create the data base and tables.
i. Log on to the SQL Server as Administrator.
ii. Get the .sql file from the Web Service zip you downloaded before.
iii. Double-click this file to create the database and tables, and then click “Execute”.
f) Grant RMS administrator the database operations rights.
i. Open “Internet Information Services” (IIS).
ii. Click “Application Pools” in Connections Pane. Then you can get the account
information from Identity column.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
303
iii. Open SQL Server management.
iv. Navigate to “Security” -> “Logins”.
v. Check if the RMS administrator account is listed.
If yes, skip to Step vi.
If not, right-click “Logins”, then click “New Login”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
304
Input the Login name, click OK.
vi. Grant RMS administrator as the database owner.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
305
g) Set up the firewall.
i. In SQL Server Configuration Manager, expand SQL Native Client Configuration, and
click “Client Protocols” and right-click “TCP/IP Properties” to get the default port.
ii. Run “Windows Firewall” and click “Advanced settings”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
306
iii. Click “Inbound Rules”.
iv. Click “New Rule…”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
307
v. Select “Port” and then click “Next”.
vi. Select “TCP”, then select “Specific local ports”, type the SQL port number, and click
“Next”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
308
vii. Select “Allow the connection”, and then click “Next”.
viii. Choose when to apply the rule.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
309
ix. Specify the name and description of the rule and then click “Finish”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
310
Work with PhantomPDF via VBA scripts in Excel
Foxit PhantomPDF allows you to use VBA scripts in Microsoft Excel to automate PDF tasks, including
PDF creation, form filling, and adding watermarks. This section offers instruction on preparation
and settings before you use Excel VBA scripts to perform PDF tasks with Foxit PhantomPDF.
Prepare Microsoft Excel
With similar operations in Excel versions, take Excel 2016 for example. In Excel 2016, there is no
Developer tab in the ribbon by default. To add the tab, click File > Options > Customize Ribbon in
Excel 2016, and check Developer in Main Tabs on the right part of the Excel Options dialog box, as
the screenshot shown below.
Then you can see the Developer tab in the Ribbon.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
311
Configure the VBA Editor
Open the VBA Editor (i.e. the “Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications” dialog box) in Excel first.
There are three methods to open the VBA Editor:
1. Press shortcuts Alt+F11.
2. Click Visual Basic in the Developer tab.
3. Right-click a sheet and choose View Code in the context menu.
The VBA Editor pops up to continue.
Click Tools > References, and check PhantomPDF in the pop-up dialog box shown as the screenshot
below. Click OK to exit the dialog box.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
312
Click View > Object Browser in the VBA Editor. In the pop-up dialog box, click the <All Libraries>
box and you can see PhantomPDF has been successfully referenced.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
313
Now we’ve completed all necessary preparation and settings. For the API reference to
communicate with PhantomPDF, please refer to API Reference for Application Communication.
Keyboard Shortcuts
There are number of keyboard shortcuts that you can use to speed up your navigation within the
Foxit PhantomPDF. You can both use the default keyboard shortcuts and customize your own
shortcuts.
To customize the keyboard shortcuts, please do as below:
Right-click any area on the ribbon and choose Customize Quick Access Toolbar …. In the pop-up
Customize Tools dialog box, choose Keyboard tab.
Some particularly important ones are listed here.
File Keys
Result
Shortcut
Open File
Ctrl + O
Close File
Ctrl + W, or Ctrl + F4
Save As
Ctrl + Shift + S
Close All
Ctrl + Shift + W
Print a Document
Ctrl + P
Exit Foxit PhantomPDF
Ctrl + Q, or Alt+F4
Save
Ctrl + S
Create PDF from file
Ctrl + N
Document Properties
Ctrl + D
View Keys
Result
Shortcut
Full Screen
F11
Exit Full Screen Mode
ESC, or F11
Switch to Text Viewer
Ctrl + 6
Zoom In
Ctrl + +
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
314
Zoom Out
Ctrl + -
Zoom To
Ctrl + M
Actual Size
Ctrl + 1
Fit to Page
Ctrl + 0
Fit Width
Ctrl + 2
Fit Visible
Ctrl + 3
Rotate Clockwise
Ctrl + Shift + Plus
Rotate Counterclockwise
Ctrl + Shift + Minus
AutoScroll
Ctrl + Shift + H
Stop AutoScroll
ESC
Switch between tabs
Ctrl + Tab
View file in read mode
Ctrl + H
Preview page by page in Print Preview
Page Up/Down
Go to Page
Ctrl + G
First Page
Ctrl + Home
Previous Page
Ctrl + Page Up
Next Page
Ctrl + Page Down
Last Page
Ctrl + End
Previous View
Alt + Left
Next View
Alt + Right
Marquee Zoom
Alt + 5
Read Current Page
Ctrl + Shift + V
Read from Current Page
Ctrl + Shift + B
Stop
Ctrl + Shift + E
Rulers
Ctrl + R
Show or hide Navigation pane
F4
Edit Keys
Result
Shortcut
Copy
Ctrl + C, or Ctrl + Insert
Cut
Ctrl + X
Paste
Ctrl + V
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
315
Undo (Undo an action)
Ctrl + Z
Redo (Redo or repeat an action)
Ctrl + Shift + Z
Select All (Select all items in a document or
window)
Ctrl + A
Add Bookmark
Ctrl + B
Preferences
Ctrl + K
Go to fillable field by tab order
Tab
Go to fillable field by tab in reversed order
Shift + Tab
Duplicate pages
Ctrl + U
Tool Keys
Tool
Shortcut
Hand Tool
Alt + 3
Select Text
Alt + 6
Snapshot
Alt + 7
Find Text (Open the Navigation task pane to
search document.)
Ctrl + F
Find Next
F3
Find Previous
Shift + F3
Search
Ctrl + Shift + F
Document Keys
Result
Shortcut
Page Down
Space
Page Up
Shift + Space
Expand the selected area to the next character on
the right
Shift + Right
Expand the selected area to the next character on
the left
Shift + Left
Expand the selected area to the end of a word
Ctrl + Shift + Right
Expand the selected area to the beginning of a
word
Ctrl + Shift + Left
Expand the selected area to the end of a row
Shift + End
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
316
Expand the selected area to the beginning of a row
Shift + Home
Expand the selected area next Row
Shift + Down
Expand the selected area previous Row
Shift + Up
Expand the selected area to the beginning of a
document
Ctrl + Shift + Home
Expand the selected area to the end of a document
Ctrl + Shift + End
Move left by a character
Left
Move right by a character
Right
Move left by a word
Ctrl + Left
Move right by a word
Ctrl + Right
Move up by a row
Up
Move down by a row
Down
Move to the end
End
Move to the beginning
Home
Move to the top of next page
Ctrl + Page Down
Move to the top of previous page
Ctrl + Page Up
Move to the end of the document
Ctrl + End
Move to the beginning of the document
Ctrl + Home
Help Keys
Result
Shortcut
Help
F1
Single-key Accelerators
You can select some commands and perform some actions with single-key accelerators. To enable
single-key accelerators, please go to File > Preferences > General, and check Use single-key
accelerators to access tools option in the Basic Tools group.
Keys for Selecting Commands
Command
Single-key Accelerator
Hand
H
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
317
Temporarily select Hand
Spacebar
Select
V
Marquee
Z
Cycle through zoom commands: Marquee, Loupe,
Magnifier
Shift + Z
Temporarily zoom out (when the Marquee
command is selected)
Ctrl
Temporarily select Zoom In
Ctrl+ Spacebar
Select Annotation
R
Edit Object
O
Crop Pages
C
Link
L
Text Field
F
Cycle through commands in forms authoring
mode: Text Field, Check Box, Radio Button, List
Box, Combo Box, Push Button, Signature Field
Shift + F
Audio & Video
M
Cycle through Multimedia commands: Audio &
Video, Image Annotation
Shift + M
Edit Text
T
Text & Images Redaction
Shift + Y
JavaScript Console
Ctrl + J
Insert Blank Page
Shift + Ctrl + T
Insert From File
Ctrl + Shift + I
Delete pages
Ctrl + Shift + D
Reading Order
Shift + Ctrl + U
Keys for Working with Comments
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Sticky Note
S
Replace Text
E
Stamp
K
Current highlighting command
U
Cycle through highlighting tools: Highlight,
Underline, Strikeout
Shift + U
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
318
Current drawing markup command
D
Cycle through drawing markup commands: Cloud,
Arrow, Line, Rectangle, Oval, Polygon Line,
Polygon, Pencil, Eraser
Shift + D
Cloud
Q
Text Box
X
Current Stamp or Attach File command
J
Cycle through Stamp and Attach File
Shift + J
Move focus to next comment or form field
Tab
Move focus to previous comment or form field
Shift + Tab
Open pop-up note (or text field in Comments List)
for comment that has focus
Enter
Close pop-up (or text field in Comments List) for
comment that has focus
Esc
Keys for Navigating a PDF Document
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Previous screen
Page Up
Next screen
Page Down
First page
Home
Last page
End
Previous page
Left Arrow or Ctrl + Page Up
Next page
Right Arrow or Ctrl + Page Down
Scroll up
Up Arrow
Scroll down
Down Arrow
Scroll (when Hand command is selected)
Spacebar
Zoom in
Ctrl+ Equal Sign
Zoom out
Ctrl + Hyphen
Keys for Working with Forms
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Align selected fields left
L
Align selected fields left
R
Align selected fields top
T
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
319
Align selected fields bottom
B
Align selected fields horizontal
H
Align selected fields vertical
V
Center fields horizontally
Shift + H
Center fields vertically
Shift + V
Highlight fields
Shift + L
Show tab numbers
Shift + N
Document JavaScript
Shift + D
Keys for Working with PDF Portfolios
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Move focus to the next or previous row when in
the body of the file list on the left
Up Arrow or Down Arrow
If pressed in the body of the file list, navigate one
level up from within a folder
Backspace
If pressed when focus is on a row in the file list
representing a subfolder, navigate to a subfolder,
or open an attachment in Preview mode.
Enter
If in the body of the file list, move to the first or
last row
Home or End
If in the body of the file list, move to the next or
last set of rows to fit the screen
Page Down or Page Up
Select or deselect all files
Ctrl + A or Shift + Ctrl + A
If in the body of the file list, extend the selection
by adding the next row above or below the
selected row
Shift + Up Arrow or Shift + Down Arrow
Change whether the row with focus is in the
selection
Ctrl + Spacebar
Move focus up or down one row without
changing the selection
Ctrl + Up Arrow or Ctrl + Down Arrow
Keys for Navigating Task Panes
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Move focus to the next item among Document
pane, status bar, and Navigation bar
F6
Move focus to the previous item among
Document pane, status bar, and Navigation bar
Shift + F6
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
320
Move focus to the next panel in the Task pane
Ctrl + Tab
Move focus to the previous panel in the Task pane
Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Navigate to the next panel and panel control
within an open Task pane
Tab
Navigate to the previous panel and panel control
within an open Task pane
Shift + Tab
Navigate to the next command button within a
panel
Down Arrow
Navigate to the previous command button within
a panel
Up Arrow
Expand or collapse panel in focus (press F6 to
move focus to the next item among Document
pane, status bar, and navigation bar, then tab to
desired panel)
Spacebar or Enter
Open or close the Task pane
Shift + F4
Open the menu and move the focus to the first
menu option when focus is on a command with a
submenu or submenu element with a flyout
Spacebar or Enter
Move the focus back to the parent command
button with a submenu or submenu element with
a flyout
Esc
Run the command in focus
Spacebar or Enter
Navigate to the next item in the active panel in
the Create New Action or Edit Action dialog boxes
Tab
Navigate to the previous item in the active panel
in the Create New Action or Edit Action dialog
boxes
Shift + Tab
Keys for General Navigating
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Move focus to Ribbon
F10
Move to next open document tab (when multiple
documents are open in same window)
Ctrl + Tab
Move to previous open document tab (when
multiple documents are open in same window)
Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Close current document
Ctrl + F4
Close all open documents
Ctrl + Shift + W
Move focus to document pane
F5
Open context menu
Shift + F10
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
321
Close context menu
F10
Return to Hand command or Select command
Esc
Move focus to next tab in a tabbed dialog box
Ctrl + Tab
Move to previous search result and highlight it in
the document
Shift + F3
Move to next search result and highlight it in the
document
F3
Search previous document (with Search results
displaying multiple files)
Alt + Shift + Left Arrow
Search next document (with Search results
displaying multiple files)
Alt + Shift + Right Arrow
Select text (with Select command selected)
Shift + Arrow Keys
Select next word or deselect previous word (with
Select command selected)
Shift + Ctrl + Right Arrow or Left Arrow
Keys for Working with Navigation Panels
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Open and move focus to navigation pane
Ctrl + Shift + F5
Move focus among the document, status bar and
navigation panels
F6
Move focus to previous pane or panel
Shift + F6
Move among the elements of the active
navigation panel
Tab
Move to previous or next navigation panel and
make it active (when focus is on the panel button)
Up Arrow or Down Arrow
Move to next navigation panel and make it active
(when focus is anywhere in the navigation pane)
Ctrl + Tab
Expand the current bookmark (focus on
Bookmarks panel)
Right Arrow or Shift + Plus Sign
Collapse the current bookmark (focus on
Bookmarks panel)
Left Arrow or Minus Sign
Expand all bookmarks
Shift + *
Collapse selected bookmark
Forward Slash (/)
Move focus to next item in a navigation panel
Down Arrow
Move focus to previous item in a navigation panel
Up Arrow
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
322
Keys for Navigating the Help Window
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Open Help window
F1
Keys for Accessibility
Action
Single-key Accelerator
Change reading settings for the current document
Shift + Ctrl + 5
Reflow a tagged PDF, and return to unreflowed
view
Ctrl + 4
Activate and deactivate Read Out Loud
Shift + Ctrl + Y
Read only the current page out loud
Shift + Ctrl + V
Read out loud from the current page to the end
of the document
Shift + Ctrl + B
Pause reading out loud
Shift + Ctrl + C
Stop reading out loud
Shift + Ctrl + E
Command Lines
Here are some command lines that can be used to Foxit PhantomPDF:
Command
Result
-Register
Set Foxit PhantomPDF as default reader.
-pwd<password>
Input the password of the protected PDF documents.
/p <PDF path>
Print the document with default printer
/t <PDF Path> [Printer]
Print the document with designated printer
<PDF Path> /A […][…]..
Open a PDF document with a command to exactly specify what to
display and how to display
<PDF Path> /A reverse=1/0
Read in reverse view with the value of “1”; normal view with “0”.
Foxit PhantomPDF
User Manual
323
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us should you need any information or have any problems with our products.
We are always here, ready to serve you better.
Office Address:
Foxit Software Incorporated
41841 Albrae Street
Fremont, CA 94538
USA
Sales:
1-866-680-3668 (24/7)
Support & General:
1-866-MYFOXIT, 1-866-693-6948, or 1-510-438-9090
Fax:
1-510-405-9288
Website:
www.foxitsoftware.com
E-mail:
Sales - sales@foxitsoftware.com
Marketing - marketing@foxitsoftware.com
Technical Support - enter a trouble ticket via our Support Portal
Website Questions - webmaster@foxitsoftware.com

Navigation menu