Foxit Reader Portable v2024.1 Updated

Stephen Leibowitz on 6 Mar 2024
  • 458MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by ekin_116

Foxit Reader is a fast PDF viewer that includes annotation capabilities, Javascript support, interactive form filler and built-in text converter. The interface includes text reading, two page view, rotation, autoscroll, text view, skins, measuring, text and background color replacement and supports drag-and-drop. Annotation tools include text "sticky notes" and standard text boxes, as well as form data import and export. Can insert images, bookmarks and files (including audio and video).

Includes PDF Standard 1.7 compatibility, support for the Adobe Portfolio format, Sharepoint integration, as well as command-line features and various signing tools (for both physical signatures and digital via DocuSign). Cross platform (Mac, iOS, and Android).

Version note: Foxit Reader Portable is the PortableApps.com version of the program. The standard installer version of this program from the Foxit website is bundleware, adding a hard-to-remove browser toolbar. A pro version is available with additional features.

Functional in 64-bit.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Adware (rotates pro features in top right corner)
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FoxitReaderPortable.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files from App\Foxit Reader\Lang\.
Similar/alternative apps: PDF-XChange Editor, PDF-XChange Viewer
Xelitan PDF Reader (8MB)
What's new? See: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/version-history.html

89 comments on Foxit Reader Portable  The Portable Freeware Collection Latest Entries Feed

juverax 2024-03-15 11:52

@JohnTHaller : Thank you for posting this earlier version. I deleted the one I got from my "unknown potentially unreliable web page".
Relief !!!!

v2024.1

JohnTHaller 2024-03-15 10:37

v2024.1

juverax 2024-03-15 10:24

@Cornflower: It is true that the first duckduck.go links point to pages that actually do not host the "desired" version. But further down in the list of pages, I could download the file from https://en.taiwebs.com/windows/download-foxit-reader-portable-3493.html

I noticed that the page mentions a "password" which was not needed for accessing or running the app.

I checked on virustotal FoxitReaderPortable_2023.2.0.21408.paf.exe (what you download) and FoxitReaderPortable.exe (after uniextracting the paf file), and both came up clean.
But I did not check the "multitude" of DLLs ...

I could launch the app, and did not go further, since I have no use for this app.

v2024.1

Cornflower 2024-03-15 05:40

@juverax Most of the links revert to PortableApps, and the 2023.2 download link in PortableApps reverts to the latest (2024.1) version. Others direct to the (nonportable) Foxit previous versions page. I use PDF-XChange Editor myself, but for now I think Foxit users thinking of upgrading may well want to install to a new folder until they know if they need bookmarks, image capabilities, or AV.

v2024.1

juverax 2024-03-15 00:38

@Cornflower: Unless I am mistaken, there are several places where one can find
"Foxit" "2023.2" "portable"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Foxit%22+%222023.2%22++%22portable%22&t=h_&ia=web

v2024.1

Cornflower 2024-03-14 19:54

It appears that Foxit after version 2023.2 has disabled bookmarks, attachments, AV and image editing. Foxit suggests that to retain those features one use their new Online Editor version, payware with a free trial.

Discussion can be found here: https://kb.foxit.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/21343358831380-Impossible-to-create-bookmarks

Foxit provides a link to its (non-portable) 2023.2 version at https://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/product/phantomPDF/desktop/win/2023.2.0/FoxitPDFReader20232_enu_Setup.msi

I was able to uniextract from https://foxit-reader.en.uptodown.com/windows/download/113641396 version 2023.2 but my system is not clean enough to know if it wrote to the registry. Perhaps @JohnTHaller still has the older portable version?

v2024.1

PapaiMark 2022-06-30 18:14

I have tried tenths of versions of it since 2007 and it never worked fine. Always full of bugs and mainly crashes. Few years ago I found Sumatra, which became my "notepad" or "mspaint" for PDF files. For edition, any other is fine.
It is marked as "potentially unwanted programs" (search)

v12.0

juverax 2018-10-06 08:28

Foxit PDF Reader Fixes High-Severity Remote Code Execution Flaws:
https://threatpost.com/foxit-pdf-reader-fixes-high-severity-remote-code-execution-flaws/137889/

v9.2.0.9297

MIKLO 2017-12-24 16:02

@CornHolio the Gringo agreed PDF-XChange is what I use for anything PDF and have been using for many years. Although I don't mean to take anything away from Foxit cause its good software in its own right. Even thought its been a few years since anyone has posted this is still an important download for anyone looking for a good PDF Reader that's Portable :)
MIKLO

v9.0.1.1049

CornHolio the Gringo 2015-05-02 17:55

PDF-XChange is the PDF reader I use, but make sure You configure it
right before executing the programm.(fx. disable Java).
Foxit Reader doesnt have the tools I like that comes with PDF-XChange.

v7.1.5.422

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