Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can view PDF files on the go.


Features

The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:

* Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
* Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay.
* Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
* High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.

Foxit Reader offers new integrations with social networks Facebook® and Twitter®, Read Out Loud, and many usability enhancements. The multi-award-winning Foxit Reader, with over 100 million users, has gained significant new functionality, helping Foxit maintain a clear lead in features and functionality among competitive PDF reader offerings:

Inergrate PDF with Your Social Networks

Users can login to their Facebook® or Twitter® account and:
Select text from a PDF document and share it as status.
Take a snapshot of a region of a document and share it.
Share the current document, or select a document from Windows Explorer®, and share the document using Foxit's OnDemandCM file sharing capability.

Listen to PDF Documents with Read Out Loud

The Foxit Reader can read your PDF document to you using the available voices installed on your system. If you have Speech Application Programming Interface 5 (SAPI 5) installed for text-to-speech, you can choose to have Foxit Reader read your PDF documents to you.

New Usability Features For Enhanced User Experience

Foxit Reader 5.1 provides new usability features to improve the use experience that include:

The Read Mode capability, which provides a cleaner reading experience by reducing the clutter of menus and toolbars.
Enhanced text rendering so text displays more clearly and better defined.
Increased performance for reader startup, opening a PDF file, and closing a PDF file.
Automatically choose a printer's paper source based on PDF page size.