For Version 9.2 and Version 9.3
Since V9.4, we have added a new option called Always display the keyboard selection cursor under Accessibility tab in Preferences dialog box. To open Preferences dialog box, please go to File tab in Foxit application, click on Preferences option.
If you have the option Always display the keyboard selection cursor selected, then Select Text and Image tool would keep selected automatically when you open a PDF file in Foxit application.
If you don't have the option Always display the keyboard selection cursor selected, then Hand tool will always be selected as default when you open a PDF file.
Following is the explanation for why the last selected tool in Foxit application cannot be remembered in newly opened PDF file in V9.4 and greater versions:
Since V9.4, we have implemented a new feature to make Foxit application to have the ability to tear a tab as a new window and manage tabs. For this new feature, we have modified the working mechanism for last selected tool in Foxit application. Its working mechanism has been changed from ‘For program level’ to 'For file level". The tool that you have selected in Foxit application is only effective for the opened PDF file in current tab, it cannot apply to other PDF documents. So when you open a new PDF file in Foxit application, the default tool in the newly opened tab should be Hand tool by default if you don't have the Always display the keyboard selection cursor selected.
For Version 9.2 and Version 9.3
When you open a PDF Form file ( AcroForm &XFA Forms), Hand tool would always be selected as default.
When you open a non-form PDF file, the last tool you have selected in Foxit application would be selected by default for newly opened PDF file.
The last tool you have selected in Foxit application would be selected by default for newly opened PDF file.
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