My favorite Foxit Reader keyboard shortcuts
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Foxit Reader is a free, lean (just 2.55 MB) PDF reader that I have been using for more than a couple of years. Although Adobe started it all, I find it's Adobe Reader unwieldy. Being lazy I generally prefer keyboard shortcuts instead of accessing things with the mouse although it takes a little effort to memorize. Over the years, I've found myself using the following Foxit Reader (Version 2.3) shortcuts often -
I found the Auto Scroll and Text Viewer features unusual & interesting.
When you activate Auto Scroll, Foxit Reader will automatically scroll the pages of the PDF file. What's more you can enable the Full Screen option while it auto scrolls. I got a chance to try this out while browsing the amazing photos in the book Blue Planet Run in PDF format.
If a PDF page has images & text, the Text Viewer option will pick just the text. This may ocassionally be useful when you find the font type or images on the page disturbing & you want to focus only on text. This doesn't however match the new Google feature of extracting text in an image in a PDF file.
Also see: Keyboard shortcuts common to Firefox & IE 8 (Beta 2)
| Shortcut | Command |
| Alt+2 | Full Screen |
| Alt+3 | Hand Tool |
| Alt+6 | Select Text |
| Alt+9 | Text Viewer |
| Ctrl+- | Zoom Out |
| Ctrl++ | Zoom In |
| Ctrl+1 | Actual Size |
| Ctrl+2 | Fit Page |
| Ctrl+3 | Fit Width |
| Ctrl+F | Find |
| F3 | Find Next |
| Ctrl+Shift+H | Auto Scroll |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | Go to Page |
| F11 | Reverse View |
| F9 | Toggle Menu bar |
I found the Auto Scroll and Text Viewer features unusual & interesting.
When you activate Auto Scroll, Foxit Reader will automatically scroll the pages of the PDF file. What's more you can enable the Full Screen option while it auto scrolls. I got a chance to try this out while browsing the amazing photos in the book Blue Planet Run in PDF format.
If a PDF page has images & text, the Text Viewer option will pick just the text. This may ocassionally be useful when you find the font type or images on the page disturbing & you want to focus only on text. This doesn't however match the new Google feature of extracting text in an image in a PDF file.
Also see: Keyboard shortcuts common to Firefox & IE 8 (Beta 2)
Labels: Browsers, Tools/Utilities
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Posted byThis would be great post but some shortcut are doesn't work as alt+1,alt+2 and all which included with +numeric. are those get wrong?
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Alt and Number key combination do work for me. Which version of Foxit Reader are you using?
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