Excellent – Foxit PDF Business & Converter Review

I have to hand it to the developers, they really put together a bang-up pdf reader. I've tried pretty much all the competitors, and always find myself returning to Fox-it. The functionality, the layout, and the ease of use are all excellent. Of course, there's about half a dozen things I wish they would change. For example, I wish they could shave off a layer of user input when making annotations. In other words, I want to be able to add text and highlight in several different colors with little or no menu navigation (e.g., the first "level" of the text selection popup menu displays four or five customizable annotation options, or maybe they popup at the bottom of the screen). Another pet peeve is the presence of numerous functions that take up screen real estate but that are rarely used. Maybe the developers could analyze usage patterns of end users to identify unpopular features, and add options to hide or replace them. With that said, my wish list for Foxit is a lot smaller than the other PDF readers. And they do some innovative things that I haven't seen elsewhere. Take text selection, for example. Touch the screen and pull in the direction you want. There's no press and then wait for dragging bars to show up. It's really quick. As for the business edition, the extra functionality you get is probably not worth the money. I haven't used anything so far that I didn't in the free version. But that's not really the point in paying for the app. These guys really spent some time putting together a great piece of software, and the $2.99 (or whatever it is at the moment) is the least I can do to show some appreciation.
Review by Clinkerkid on Foxit PDF Business & Converter.