Install Foxit Reader 1.1 in Linux Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, SteamOS and other debian based distro

 

Install Foxit Reader 1.1 in Linux Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, SteamOS and other debian based distro

Here’s how to install Foxit Reader in more recent versions of Ubuntu Linux through PPA / deb packages dedicated

Foxit Reader in Ubuntu
The announcement of the abandonment of the support of Adobe Reader is doing much to discuss our readers. Luckily we do not have a PDF reader available many (many of them open source) such as Okular, Evince, MuPDF, etc. qpdfview able to provide even more functionality than proprietary software from Adobe.
It ‘also available for Linux Foxit Reader, PDF document reader known owner can provide features and functionality similar to Adobe Reader.

Foxit Reader for Linux is a software that is lighter than Adobe Reader including but similar features including an excellent support for playback of large PDF documents. With Foxit Reader for Linux will also provide the tool to select and copy text, also useful tool Snapshot tool to capture parts of a document and save them as images in our notes / clipboard. Foxit Reader for Linux includes the “classical“ features included in the various PDF reader such as zoom, search, view in full screen, rotate the page or document, thumbnails, bookmarks, etc., also on the preferences we also customize the keyboard shortcuts.

Install Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader for Linux is a proprietary software obsolete (last update in 2010) although it is still functional.
At the request of our reader Paul (and not Poalo as signaling), we created deb packages of Foxit Reader 1.1 for the most recent versions of Ubuntu.
To install Foxit Reader 1.1 in Ubuntu and just download the deb package from this page or just type in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/lffl
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install foxit-reader

after installation just start Foxit Reader menu.
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