Foxit PDF Read 2.3

Friday, 16 May, 2008

A new version of Foxit PDF Reader has been released and whilst on the face of it it only appears to be an incremental update, the big news is that it now offers full audio/video support for PDFs.

At the Journal of Maps I am keen to promote the wider use of “multimedia” within e-journals and, as a result, we have published several articles containing videos (fly-throughs, micro-simulations, animated flight atlas) and hope to expand this to 3D models at some point (although Foxit can’t currently handle these). Foxit is a small PDF reader (~6Mb) that renders pages quickly and, increasingly, supports a wide range of features. It also requires no installation and can be run directly from a USB stick. So its ideal for quick PDF viewing.

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