Foxit Advanced PDF Editor offers you all the functionality and usability that you would expect to find in standard text editors, allowing you to change existing PDF files with a higher level of flexibility and longer list of features than those in Adobe Acrobat Pro. You can edit any element in the text, including fonts, margins, text boxes, and even page numbers.
It makes PDF documents look as manageable as Word files. Far from the rigidness of Acrobat Pro, this PDF editing tool behaves just like a standard text editor, allowing you to move images, linking text boxes, reflowing text, fitting text across columns, changing fonts, and renumbering pages. You can also create new and pro-looking PDF documents from scratch or by importing raw text from nearly all standard text files. You can then add new text and images, add a header and a footer, check the spelling (useful also for OCR documents), and design the layout of your new PDFs nearly as intuitively as you would do with your favorite text editor.
One of its most attractive features is its “search and replace” functionality. You can use it not only in any PDF file but also across many PDF files, as it can search and replace the proposed string in all the PDF documents inside a given folder or directory. This search can be as precise as needed, as you can narrow it down to look for a specific font, color, size, or a combination of them.
All in all, Foxit’s Advanced PDF Editor is an excellent alternative to more expensive, more rigid, and less comprehensive tools.
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Review summary
Pros
- Its extensive editing functionality surpasses Adobe Acrobat Pro's features
- Intuitive usability, similar to that of standard and widely-used text editors
- Clear and attractive interface
Cons
- None
