Christmas comes early! Good App but not great
I use Foxit PDF on my Windows desktop, but have always had to use Mac Preview on my Macbook when taking notes in class. After years of waiting there finally is Foxit PDF Reader for Mac OS.
It looks actually a little more stylish than the Windows version and matches Mac’s interface quite nicely. Most importantly, it has a lot of the same annotating tools and functionality as Windows Foxit. You can still highlight, underline, etc., and then right-click the annotation, click properties, and change the color of the highlight/underline.
It’s missing what I probably love the most from Windows Foxit Reader, the ability to create hotkeys for pretty much every annoatation tool or action. I have always been annoyed with how Mac Preview lacks keyboard hotkeys for highlight, adding text, underlining because it is so much slower to have to mouse over and click edit, click action, click end action. Windows’ Foxit has an option to for example, make the combination of “alt” and “t” trigger text typewriting, then “alt” and “3” to end typewriting and revert back into scroll mode.
Well there are no keyboard shortcuts so it is about the same as Mac Preview in terms of notetaking efficiency. I’d still say it’s better than Mac Preview overall. For one, when inserting text on Foxit, whereever you click the cursor the text actually inserts there; whereas with Preview, the text (stupidly) autolocates to the middle of the screen where you end up dragging it to the spot you wanted originally.
Please Foxit, add the shortcuts/hotkeys like in Windows! And thank you for finally coming through with Mac release!!!
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