Create, modify, and collaborate on PDF documents. Process files in single or batch-processing mode. Change backgrounds, add watermarks, create bookmarks, and insert headers and footers on PDFs. Secure data using different protection methods and digitally sign PDFs.
PhantomPDF is an advanced PDF editor with cloud-based collaboration services. Its ConnectedPDF feature allows you to share PDF files and grant or revoke document access. ConnectedPDF Document Management lets you track who opens your document and what they do and notify readers of new updates. Business edition comes with advanced reflow editing, managing of path objects, compression of scanned documents, document redaction, and many other features.
v9.5
New Features in Foxit PhantomPDF 9.5.0.20723
- Epona DMSforLegal Integration: Use PhantomPDF to directly open/check out PDF files from Epona DMSforLegal and after making changes save/check them in to Epona DMSforLegal.
- Accessibility Features:
- Offer a visual and more efficient way to change reading order directly in the document view by drawing areas around the desired content and setting the reading order for the areas.
- Tag content as note, reference, and background/artifact with the Reading Ordercommand.
- Create a link tag automatically when creating link annotation from the context menu of the selected text in a tagged PDF.
- Viewing Article in PDF: Define a navigational path (or an article thread) for articles that arrange text content in multiple columns and pages, so that users can skim through the PDF like in a print newspaper or magazine, focusing on a specific article and ignoring the rest.
- Smooth Line Art: Provide an option to smooth lines when viewing a PDF that include CAD drawings, which also makes it faster to open the PDF.
- The Whiteout Tool: Allow user to simply and securely erase any content permanently to white background from a PDF with one click like an eraser, leaving no trace behind.
- Add pen and touch support to PhantomPDF for Microsoft Surface Pro.
Improvements in Foxit PhantomPDF 9.5.0.20723:
- Find & Search optimization:
- Search and replace all the results instantly with the replacement text.
- Add additional criteria (document properties) in Advanced Search for searches across multiple PDFs and PDF indexes.
- Sort instances in the search results by date modified, filename, or location when searching files in a folder.
- Signatures and stamps enhancements:
- Customize the appearance of digital signatures by drawing or importing a PDF file of your handwritten signature.
- Add an option to set the current size of the signature as default when placing a signature with the PDF Sign feature and the ability to place a signature or stamp by simply dragging a rectangle and filling in with the selected signature or stamp proportionally.
- Improvements in comparing files: Provide a much more clear and accurate compare result after comparison.
- For a PDF digitally signed several times, with the capability to view each signed version of the PDF, you can also view the changes made to each signed version, and compare a signed version to the current version you have.
- Enhance the HTML to PDF feature to directly create tagged PDF files by carrying over tags and other accessible information such as alt-text for images from the HTML file.
- Add shortcut keys for switching quickly between files in the multi-tab reading mode.
- Move and resize redaction markups before applying redactions.
- Insert entire PDF files including the file attachments to a document.
- Add an option to auto-detect portrait/landscape when printing PDFs.
- Remember last settings when organizing pages including rotating, extracting, and splitting.
- Add JavaScript APIs in more usage scenarios including modifying the user interface, creating/modifying PDFs, and printing.
- Some other user-friendly enhancements.
Issues Addressed in Foxit PhantomPDF 9.5.0.20723:
- Fixed an issue where some commenting tools could not work together with the Read Out Loud feature.
- Fixed an issue where the OCR running was very slow on a certain PDF document.
