{"id":5312,"date":"2015-09-27T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T16:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2015-09-27T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T17:01:30","slug":"install-foxit-reader-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/install-foxit-reader-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Foxit Reader in Ubuntu The Official Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-icon.png\" alt=\"Foxit PDF Reader\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foxit PDF reader officially added Linux support a few days ago. The .run installer available for download in its website for Linux 32-bit &#038; 64-bit.<\/p>\n<p>Foxit Software announced that its PDF reader is officially available for the Linux and Mac platforms in the middle of September. Features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open multiple PDFs at the same time in tabs.<\/li>\n<li>Open password protected PDF files<\/li>\n<li>View PDF files in single page, continuous, facing, or facing continuous mode<\/li>\n<li>Support page rotation, text search<\/li>\n<li>Print PDF documents to physical printers<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft RMS support<\/li>\n<li>Annotate PDF support, more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/company\/press.php?id=408\" target=\"_blank\">release page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-in-ubuntu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-in-ubuntu-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"foxit-pdf-reader-in-ubuntu\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-in-ubuntu-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-in-ubuntu-450x252.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-pdf-reader-in-ubuntu.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install Foxit PDF Reader in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The installation is quite easy and I&#8217;ve done that via below steps in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Download the installer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/products\/pdf-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click &#8220;Free Download&#8221; and select Linux 32-bit or 64-bit, check out your OS type at top-right shutdown menu -> About This Computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/download-foxit-reader.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/download-foxit-reader-450x246.jpg\" alt=\"download-foxit-reader\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/download-foxit-reader-450x246.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/download-foxit-reader-600x329.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/download-foxit-reader.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Extract the downloaded <u>.tar.gz<\/u> archive and run the result <u>.run<\/u> installer from its context menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/run-foxit-installer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/run-foxit-installer-450x234.jpg\" alt=\"run Foxit installer\" width=\"450\" height=\"234\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/run-foxit-installer-450x234.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/run-foxit-installer-600x312.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/run-foxit-installer.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Tip:<\/b> Don&#8217;t see the &#8220;Run&#8221; option? Do below steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to File Browser menu <i>Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior tab<\/i><\/li>\n<li>check the box that says &#8220;Run executable text files when they are opened&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>apply changes via <code>nautilus -q<\/code> command in terminal, or log out and back in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> After running .run file, the setup wizard pops up. Follow the wizard and done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-reader-wizard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-reader-wizard-450x377.jpg\" alt=\"foxit-reader-wizard\" width=\"450\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-reader-wizard-450x377.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foxit-reader-wizard.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The uninstaller is available in the installation folder, you can simply run the file to bring up Foxit Reader uninstall wizard as want.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxit PDF reader officially added Linux support a few days ago. The .run installer available for download in its website for Linux 32-bit &#038; 64-bit. Foxit Software announced that its PDF reader is officially available for the Linux and Mac platforms in the middle of September. Features include: Open multiple PDFs at the same time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1308],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-foxit-pdf-reader"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}