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Foxit PDFCreator 30
Foxit PDFCreator 30
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Contents
End User License Agreement .............................................. III
Virtual PDF Printer Essentials .............................................. VI
Chapter One Introduction to Foxit PDF Creator ................. 1
Benefits......................................................................................... 2
Features ........................................................................................ 3
Whats new .................................................................................... 4
Whats new in Foxit PDF Creator 3.0 ............................................ 4
Whats new in Foxit PDF Creator 2.0 ............................................ 4
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5. PAYMENT TERMS. Unless explicitly set forth in this Agreement, all fees and
other amounts due under this Agreement are non-cancelable and
non-refundable. Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties, You shall pay all
fees or amounts within 30 days of the date of the invoice. A late fee shall be
charged on any overdue amounts and any other fees and expenses not paid as
provided under this Agreement at the rate of one and one-half percent (1%)
per month, or the highest rate allowable under applicable law, whichever is less,
commencing with the date payment was due.
6. TAXES. The fees and all other amounts due as set forth in this Agreement
are net amounts to be received by Foxit, exclusive of all taxes, duties, and
assessments, including without limitation all sales, withholding, VAT, excise, ad
valorem, and use taxes (collectively, the Taxes), and are not subject to offset
or reduction because of any Taxes incurred by You or otherwise due as a result
of this Agreement. You shall be responsible for and shall pay directly, any and
all Taxes relating to the performance of this Agreement, provided that this
paragraph shall not apply to taxes based solely on Foxits income.
7. CONSENT TO USE OF DATA. If Foxit provides any support services to You,
You agree that Foxit and its affiliates may collect and use all information You
provide as a part of any such support services related to the Product. Foxit
agrees not to use this information in a form that personally identifies You.
8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. Subject to the license grant hereunder,
all right, title and interest in and to the Product, the accompanying printed
materials, and any copies of the Product are owned by Foxit and its licensors.
9. EXPORT RESTRICTIONS. You acknowledge that Product is of U.S. origin.
You agree to comply with all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and
regulations governing Your use of the Product. Without limiting the foregoing,
in the event that this Agreement permits export of the Product outside the U.S.,
You shall be solely responsible for compliance with all applicable U.S. export
laws, rules, and regulations. The Product is subject to the U.S. Export
Administration Regulations and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or
re-exported to certain countries (currently Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea,
Sudan and Syria) or to persons or entities prohibited from receiving U.S.
exports (including those (a) on the Bureau of Industry and Security Denied
Parties List or Entity List, (b) on the Office of Foreign Assets Control list of
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, and (c) involved with
missile technology or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons).
10. WARRANTY
10.1.
Warranty. Foxit warrants that for a period of 90 days from the
date of delivery (Warranty Period), under normal use, the Product will
perform substantially in conformance with the specifications published in
the Documentation. During such period, and as the sole obligation of
Foxit and Your sole remedy under the warranty in this Section, if You
provide written notice of Foxits failure to comply with the above warranty,
Foxit will use reasonable commercial efforts to correct such
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damages), the entire liability of Foxit, its resellers and their subsidiaries
under any provision of this License and Your exclusive remedy for all of
the foregoing shall be limited to the amount actually paid by You for the
Product. The foregoing limitations, exclusions and disclaimers shall
apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, even if any
remedy fails its essential purpose.
11.2.
NOTICE TO U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS
11.3.
For contracts with agencies of the Department of Defense, the
Governments rights in: (1) commercial computer software and
commercial computer software documentation shall be governed,
pursuant to 48 C.F.R. 227.7201 through 227.7202-4, by Foxits standard
commercial license(s) for the respective product(s); (2) software and
software documentation other than commercial computer software and
commercial computer software documentation shall be governed by 48
C.F.R. 252.227-7014; (3) technical data for commercial items other than
software or software documentation shall be governed by 48 C.F.R.
252.227-7015(b); and (4) technical data for non-commercial items other
than software or software documentation shall be governed by 48 C.F.R.
252.227-7013.
11.4.
For contracts with U.S. Government agencies other than the
Department of Defense agencies, the Governments rights in: (1)
commercial computer software and commercial computer software
documentation shall be governed, pursuant to 48 C.F.R. 2.101 and
12.212, by Foxits standard commercial license(s) for the respective
product(s); (2) software and software documentation other than
commercial computer software and commercial computer software
documentation shall be governed by 48 C.F.R. 52.227-14, Alternative III;
and (3) technical data other than software and software documentation
shall be governed by 48 C.F.R. 52.227-14 including, where applicable
Alternatives I or II.
12. GENERAL.
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of California excluding that body of laws
known as conflicts of law. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods will not apply. Any legal action or proceeding
arising under this Agreement will be brought exclusively in the federal or state
courts located in San Jose, California and the parties hereby irrevocably consent
to the personal jurisdiction and venue therein. You may not assign this
Agreement or any right or interest hereunder, by operation of law or otherwise,
without Foxits express prior written consent. Any attempt to assign this
Agreement, without such consent, will be null and of no effect. Subject to the
foregoing, this Agreement will bind and inure to the benefit of each party's
successors and permitted assigns. Except as expressly set forth in this
Agreement, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under this
Agreement will be without prejudice to its other remedies under this Agreement
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Use the virtual printer to create PDF file from other file formats.
The former two ways might be time-consuming compared with the approach
virtual PDF printer, which directly creates PDFs from any printable document
(.doc, .xls, .ppt, images, text, web pages, etc.)
There are many tools available for creating PDFs using a virtual printer at
current market, and the created PDFs may look the same, however they are
very different under the hood. In our repeated tests and comparing, we believe,
Foxit PDF Creator will be the right tool for you to create PDFs, and it will impress
you with its unique Benefits and rich Features.
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Benefits
Features
Whats new
Benefits
Search ability
Many PostScript-driver based PDF creation tools create PDFs without character
encoding information. Therefore it's impossible to do a search in the resulted
PDFs. Even though you can look at all those characters, you can't search them.
Foxit PDF Creator retains all character encoding information, so you can search
it, extract it, and convert back to pure text document.
Display and process efficiency
Many PDF creation tools break text contents into individual characters, causing
some performance issues for displaying and processing. Foxit PDF Creator
groups texts with similar "display attributes" together, which improving
performance when the PDF gets displayed or processed.
File size
Many PDF creation tools require all or many fonts to be embedded with the PDF
file, resulting in bigger file size for the PDF. Foxit PDF Creator can reduce the file
size for many documents.
Speed
Many PDF creation tools adopt a two phase creation procedure: first print to
PostScript language, then convert to PDF, not only it will often lose some
information during the process, but it also takes more time. Foxit PDF Creator
directly creates PDFs from any printable application, fastest among all current
PDF creation tools.
Accuracy
Many PDF creation tools cant handle complicated Windows drawing features
like transparency, and the generated PDFs are not identical to the original
documents. Foxit PDF Creator processes all Windows drawing functions so your
PDF is always same as your original document.
Compatibility
As developer of popular Foxit Reader, Foxit Software knows PDF standard very
well. This ensures PDFs created by Foxit PDF Creator will have the best result in
any standard PDF reader.
Features
Here is a list of key features Foxit PDF Creator offers:
Convert any type of printable documents (DOC, XLS, PPT, HTML, EML, TXT,
AutoCAD drawings, E-mail etc) into searchable PDF files just by clicking
the button print to "Foxit PDF Printer"
Print like a real printer with custom paper size support (like Letter, Legal, A3,
A4, A5, A6, ...)
Feel free to set page margins and orientation when printing to Foxit PDF
Printer
Does not require Ghost Script or other 3rd party software to create PDF files
Whats new
Whats new in Foxit PDF Creator 3.0
The following is a list of exciting new and enhanced features in Foxit PDF Creator
3.0.
Supporting password and certificate encryption
You can protect sensitive PDF documents to prevent loss of valuable company
information. Configure the security settings in the Foxit PDF printer properties
to control access to PDF documents.
Setting Document Information
Add document information for converted PDF documents, including titles,
subjects, author, creator and keywords. Also edit documents metadata to
archive and search PDFs with ease.
Headers and Footers
Add headers or footers for PDF pages. Choose font, size and color of the text
with ease, as well as set display position of headers and footers in a PDF file.
Adding Watermark
Add watermark to PDF documents. Use either text or image as the watermark.
Rotating and setting the transparency of the image are also supported.
Watermarking is an ideal tool to stamp a document such as Draft or
Confidential.
System Requirements
System Requirements
Windows /XP/Vista/Windows 7
2. Please read the license terms in the table, then click I agree to continue
installing.
3. In this step, there are two installation types, please select one type and
press the button.
4. If you select Default, it will finish Foxit PDF Creator setup by the default
setup configuration that Foxit has preset for the installation.
5. If you select Custom, you can Browse your PC to change the destination
location. After done, click Next button.
6. Settings: you can decide whether select the settings of Add addin button to
Microsoft word and Add an icon to the Start Menu. And then click Next to
continue.
7. In this step, you will see the progress of the installation. It just takes few
minutes to finish.
8. Lastly, comes the successful inform screen. Just click Finish button to wind
up the setup.
9. Now, you see the pop-up screen, is the Registration screen. If you are a trial
user, just click Keep Evaluating button. If youre a licensed user, please
find the right key and click Register the Key button. For details, please
refer to Registering Foxit PDF Creator.
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Whatve
Happened
to
Your
System
after
Installation
Congratulations! You have installed the Foxit PDF Creator successfully. Now
lets see what have happened to your system.
Open Start Menu->Programs, you can see Foxit PDF Creator group with
registration and uninstallation program.
Open "Control Panel"->"Printers and Faxes", you can see Foxit PDF Creator
is added with the name Foxit PDF Printer. See the following figure.
Open MSWord, you can see a Foxit PDF Creators icon on the toolbar. It is an
add-on in Word for you to convert hyperlink and bookmarks in the
document to be clickable in produced PDF files.
MSWord2003
MSWord 2007
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If the key you selected is correct, you will see a Thanks dialogue box as the
following, just click Ok button to finish.
NOTES:
If you didnt register immediately after installation, you can open the
Registration screen in the following two ways:
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Double click the file uninstall.exe under Foxit PDF Creator installation
directory.
NOTE: During uninstallation, if the MSWord is opened, the COM Addin on its
toolbar will not be removed.
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Overview
General
Layout
Fonts
Document Information
Watermarks
Security
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Overview
Before you create a PDF file, you may wish to access PDF Printing Preferences to
set up options for your PDF files. There are two ways to access PDF Preferences:
Accessing the PDF Printing Preferences from Windows Notepad
When you print a .txt file, select File > Print > Preference, you can bring up
the PDF Printing Preferences.
Accessing
the
Printing
Preferences
from
Microsoft
Office
Documents
When you print a Microsoft Office document and open the Print dialog box,
select File > Print > Properties, you can bring up the PDF Printing
Preferences.
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General
This option allows you to assign a destination folder to place the PDF files after
generations.
By default, this option is checked. If you dont hope your files are overwritten
without any prompt, you should uncheck this option.
If you dont want to change the original filenamejust check this option and the
generated PDF file will be automatically saved to the default folder you have
assigned.
By default, this option is checked. The generated PDF file will automatically open
after conversion.
This option allows you to reduce the image size with lower quality when
generating PDF files. Its checked by default.
Image Resolution
This option allows you to input a DPI (dot per inch) level for image resolution.
The valid level value is between 72 -300.
This option allows you to archive PDF files. Please note that the
DocumentInfor, Watermark, Headers/Footers and Security tab will be
disabled if this option is checked.
Save As Default
If you hope all your settings can be applied to all documents, you must keep this
option checked. If you uncheck it, your settings will be effective for the current
document only.
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General Page
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Layout
Page Form
This option allows you to choose one of paper types, or click Custom-size form
and then enter the Paper Size dimensions in the Width and Height boxes.
Layout Preview
You can see how your document layout will look with the selected options from
Page Form.
Paper Size
When you click Custom-size Form from the Page Form, this option is
activated, and you can enter dimensions in the Width and Height boxes.
Unit of Metrics
This option allows you to change the unit of measurement, including inch,
centimeter and millimeter.
Orientation
This option allows you to change the page orientation, Portrait or Landscape.
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Layout Page
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Fonts
All fonts in the Font Source list will be embedded into your PDF document when
you choose this option. To ensure that the PDF file you create is fully portable
and readable on computers that may not have the same fonts installed, you
should embed all fonts to guarantee that none are missed.
This option allows you to embed nonstandard fonts installed in your computer to
your PDF document.
Note: This will increase the size of your document considerably, particularly if
you are using Unicode-based languages like Asian languages. The font
embedding list will be disabled when this option is selected.
Font embedding list will be available when you select this option. You can check
and uncheck the fonts in the list to choose the fonts you want to embed into PDF
files.
All fonts in the embedding list will be unchecked when this option is selected.
And when you read the created PDF files, fonts installed on your OS will be used.
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Font Page
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Document Information
This option allows you to set PDF document properties, such as Title, Subject,
Author, etc. You can add information when it is checked.
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Watermarks
If you want to add watermarks to your document, you can select this option and
choose to add Image Watermarks or Text Watermarks.
Image watermarks
You can browse your computer for an image and change the Opacity, Rotation
and Offsets of the image which will be added into your document as a
watermark.
Image Watermarks
Text Watermarks
Font
This option is activated only Text Watermarks selected and you can choose the
font name, font size and font color from the drop-down menus.
Text
You can enter text in the Content box and change the Opacity and Rotation of
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Text Watermarks
Offset
This option allows you to change the unit of measurement and specify the width,
height of the image/text, etc.
Preview
You can see how the watermark will look with the selected options.
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Headers/Footers
Font
You can choose the font name, font size and font color from the boxes.
Edit
This option allows you to edit headers/footers and you can specify their styles.
Click Insert Date to insert date to the PDF document.
Click Insert Page Num to insert page number to the PDF document.
You can enter text in the columns (Left Column, Center Column and Right
Column) if needed.
Offsets
This option allows you to change the unit of measurement and specify the
margins for all 4 sides.
Preview
You can see how the headers/footers will look with the selected options.
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Headers/Footers
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Security
The security feature of PDF gives you exceptional control over PDF files. To
provide adequate protection for PDFs contents, encrypt and secure PDF files to
prevent unauthorized access, restrict sensitive operations, etc. The security
feature is especially helpful when the documents contain commercial content or
sensitive confidential information.
Password Encryption
There are two kinds of passwords that could be applied to a PDF file: a
Document open password and a Permissions password. When you set a
Document Open password, anyone who tries to open the PDF file must enter the
password that you specified. When you set a Permissions password, anyone
who wants to change the restrictions will have to enter the Permissions
password. Please note that if a PDF is protected by both types of passwords, it
can be opened with either password, but only the Permissions password allows
you to change the restrictions.
Note: Theres no way out to recover password from the PDF if you forget it. To
keep a backup copy of the PDF that isnt password-protected is a good choice.
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Permission
Require to add document restriction restricts actions to PDF files, such as
printing, editing, etc.
Printing Allowed specifies the level of printing users are allowed for the
PDF document.
A. Print with low resolution allows users to print at no higher than
150-dpi resolution.
B. Print with high resolution allows users to print at any resolution.
Enable copying of text, image and other context - defines the contents
that are allowed to be extracted in the PDF document.
Enable text access for screen reader device for visually impaired Facilitates the visually impaired users to use voice recognition software in
screen reader devices to read the generated PDF files.
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Certificate Encryption
The advantage of securing documents with certificates is that authors can
specify unique permissions for each person. For example, authors can permit a
person to fill in forms and comment in document, and permit another person to
edit text or delete pages. You can choose certificates from files on disk, or from
the Windows certificate store. Only a specific set of users whose identities can
be verified and managed can have access to the document. A certificate that
contains public key and other identifying information is used to encrypt
documents, or verified a digital signature. Only corresponding private key
decrypts the document that was encrypting using the certificate.
Generally, if possible, encrypt document using certificates from third-party
provider. If the certificate is lost or stolen, the issuing authority can replace it, if
a self-signed certificate is deleted, all PDF encrypted using the certificates are
forever accessible.
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3.
Select the printer named Foxit PDF Printer, and click Ok button to start
printing;
4.
You will be prompted to specify the name of the PDF file and where to
store. Simply assign the PDF filename, select a folder location, and click the
Save button.
5.
You will see a creating status bar, when its done, the PDF will be
automatically opened.
NOTE: To open the PDF file, you need a PDF reader program in your system, like
Foxit PDF Reader.
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Microsoft Word
3.
4.
5.
Select from main menu File > Print; or click the software add-in button on
the word toolbar if you hope to preserve hyperlinks and generate
bookmarks based on word styles.
MSWord 2003
MSWord 2007
6.
7.
If you need to deploy printing properties, click the Properties button on the
right-top;
8.
Click OK;
9.
A dialog box will pop up for you to specify the folder and file name of the PDF
document to be generated, after done, click Save button;
10. A progress bar will appear, when its done, the PDF will be automatically
opened.
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If you use File > Print > Foxit PDF Creator to generate PDF file, you will not
be able to migrate Hyperlink and Bookmarks styles from MSWord to PDF
output.
If MSWord 2000 or later is not available in your machine, you will not be
able to convert MSWord hyperlink or create PDF Bookmarks.
Microsoft Excel
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
If you need to deploy printing properties, click the Properties button on the
right-top (see Deploy the Creation Properties);
6.
Click OK;
7.
A dialog box will pop up for you to specify the folder and file name of the PDF
document to be generated, after done, click Save button;
8.
A progress bar will appear, when its done, the PDF will be automatically
opened.
NOTE:
E. In order to print multiple worksheets in a single Excel workbook to a
single PDF file, in the Print dialog box, you may check the option of
Entire Workbook under the Print What, and then all worksheets will
be created in a single PDF file.
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Internet Explorer
1. Run your Windows web browser;
2. Open a website or stay on a web page;
3. Select from main menu File > Print;
4. Select Foxit PDF Printer from the Pinter list;
5. If you need to deploy printing settings, click the Preferences button on the
opened.
Outlook Express
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
If you need to deploy printing settings, click the Preferences button on the
right (see Deploy the Creation Properties);
6.
Click OK;
7.
A dialog box will pop up for you to specify the folder and file name of the PDF
document to be generated, after done, click Save button;
8.
A progress bar will appear, when its done, the PDF will be automatically
opened.
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Contact Us
Feel free to contact us should you need any information or have any problems
with our products. We are always here, ready to serve you better.
Office Address:
Foxit Corporation
39819 Paseo Padre Parkway
Fremont CA 94538
USA
Mailing Address:
Foxit Corporation
39819 Paseo Padre Parkway
Fremont CA 94538
USA
Sales:
1-866-MYFOXIT or 1-866-693-6948
510-438-9090, 408-307-9358
Support:
1-866-MYFOXIT or 1-866-693-6948
979-446-0280, 408-329-7976
Fax:
510-405-9288
Website:
www.foxitsoftware.com
E-mail:
Sales and Information - sales@foxitsoftware.com
Technical Support - support@foxitsoftware.com
Marketing Service - marketing@foxitsoftware.com
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