Foxit PDF Editor for Windows

User Guide

  • Introduction
  • Get Started
  • Read
  • Create
  • Edit
  • Organize
  • Comment
  • Share PDFs
    • Email Documents
    • Send to Evernote
    • Send to OneNote
    • SharePoint Integration
      • Open and Save As PDFs with Foxit PDF Editor
        • Open PDF files in a SharePoint repository
        • Save as PDF files to a SharePoint repository
      • Open and Save As PDFs with a Web Browser
    • Shared Review and Email Review
    • Foxit Document Management System (DMS) (Available in Subscription Releases in certain regions)
    • Share PDFs via Link/Email and collaborate in real time (Available in Subscription Releases)
    • ndOffice Integration
    • iManage Work Integration
    • OpenText eDOCS Integration
    • OpenText Documentum Integration
    • OpenText Content Suite Integration
    • Worldox Integration
    • ShareFile Integration
    • Epona DMSforLegal Integration
    • Alfresco
  • Forms
  • Security
  • Signature
  • Accessibility
  • Foxit Admin Console
  • Print
  • Foxit AI Assistant (Available in Subscription Releases and Certain Regions)
  • Appendices
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Open PDF files in a SharePoint repository

To open PDF files in a SharePoint repository, please do the following: (Take opening PDFs in a SharePoint repository on SharePoint online for example)

  • Run Foxit PDF Editor and choose File > Open > Add a place > SharePoint . In the Add dialog box, type the SharePoint URL, and input a name that you want to display the SharePoint server in Foxit PDF Editor. Then click Next to continue. 
  • In the pop-up dialog box enter your account credential to sign in.
  • Choose the PDF file you want to open and click Open.
  • In the Foxit PDF Editor dialog box, if you choose Check out and Open, other users cannot edit the PDF at the same time; if you only choose Open, others can modify the PDF as well when you are editing. (Check Don’t ask me again to bypass this dialog box in the future and use the current choice selected the next time you open a PDF. You can change the setting later in File > Preferences > ECM Integration.)
  • (Optional) You are also allowed to preview non-PDF files on SharePoint in Foxit PDF Editor. The non-PDF files will be converted to PDF temporarily when you try to open them.
  • (Optional) If you want to cancel the Check Out status, please go to Share > SharePoint > Discard Check Out.
  • Edit the PDF according to your requirements.
  • To check and set the PDF properties, please do the following steps:
  1. Please go to Share > SharePoint > Document Properties.
  2. In the Document Properties dialogue, you will find the file path and document properties. You can select the file path to copy and paste it, if necessary. To edit a document property, double-click the column name, and edit the value in the Edit text box. For example, double-click Title, the Edit text box will pop up, type the content you want and click OK to finish the editing. 

  • Go to Share > SharePoint > Check In.

    In the Check In dialogue box, select a version number for the modified document along with the appropriate the version comments. To not allow other people to modify the document, you can check Keep the document checked out after checking in this version.

  • Click OK, the modified PDF will be loaded to the server automatically.