===== 1. Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software. Now with Foxit Reader, you don't have to endure such pain any more. The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader: Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.55 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size. Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc. Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document. Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file. High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware. ===== 2. Foxit PDF Creator is a virtual printer that allows any application with printing capability to generate high-quality PDF documents conveniently and efficiently. Like the popular Foxit Reader, Foxit PDF Creator is designed specially based on the same Foxit core PDF technologies. With powerful search ability and high-performance PDF displaying and processing, it is small, fast and accurate for converting any popular file formats to professional quality PDF files. Once installed as a print driver, it enables you to create reliable PDF files at an incredibly fast speed while retaining the look and feel of the original documents. It supports Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista (32-Bit) and is compatible with PDF standard 1.7. It doesn't support Vista 64-Bit at present. There are many tools available for creating PDFs using a virtual printer. The created PDF may look same, but they are very different under the hood: Search ability: Many PostScript-driver based PDF creation tools create PDFs without character encoding information. Therefore it's not possible 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 retain 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 improves 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 is some information lost during the process, but it also takes more time. Foxit PDF Creator directly creates PDFs from any printing application fastest among all current PDF creation tools. Accuracy: Many PDF creation tools don't 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 that PDFs created by Foxit PDF Creator will have the best result in any standard PDF reader. ===== 3. Have you ever faced one of the following challenges? You are ready to print out a PDF file, and suddenly find some typos. You want to fill out a PDF form electronically, but realize it is non-fillable. You receive a PDF file from your colleague and want to make some changes before forwarding it to others. You want to consolidate several PDF report files into a single PDF document. Now, with Foxit PDF Editor, you can easily meet the above challenges. Foxit PDF Editor is the only real PDF editor. Unlike other so-called "PDF Editor", which only works with notes or limited page contents, Foxit PDF Editor allows you to modify any page contents within any PDF document. You can select, insert, change, remove, rotate, copy and paste texts, images and graphics. You can insert, import, delete pages or design page layout. After you finish editing, you can print out the result PDF file or save it to overwrite the original file or create a new file. ===== 4. There are a number of affordable PDF creators on the market that can convert printed documents to PDF files. However, you'll often need to use very expensive tools like Adobe Acrobat to do post processing tasks like merging different documents together, re-arranging pages, composing page outlines, etc. Foxit PDF Page Organizer provides a reliable alternative to those expensive and complicated tools. It displays an overview page without any additional software (like Adobe Acrobat Reader), so you can easily know what you are working on. Thanks for kingbear and aoloffline for providing license keys!