Foxit PDF Editor also adds a plugin in Microsoft Outlook when installed and appears as a tab entitled FOXIT PDF in the Outlook toolbar.
This article explains how to customize the behavior of the add-in before deploying it to your users.
Audience:
Organizations looking to customize Foxit PDF Editor before deploying it to their knowledge workers.
In this article:
- Deploy Foxit PDF Editor with custom Outlook add-in settings
Customize Outlook add-in using Foxit Customization Wizard tool
- Click on the Preferences Tab
- Scroll down to "Outlook COM Add-in"
- Select one of the options to customize, see below the screenshot
View PDF Results:
- Default: Immediately opens the PDF inside Foxit PDF Editor after converting an email to PDF. Users can choose otherwise.
- Enabled: Immediately opens the PDF inside Foxit PDF Editor after converting an email to PDF. Users cannot choose otherwise.
- Disabled: Does not open PDFs inside Foxit PDF Editor after converting an email to PDF. Users cannot choose otherwise.
Output PDF Portfolio:
- Default: When converting multiple emails to PDF, the resulting file will be a PDF Portfolio. Users can choose otherwise.
- Enabled: When converting multiple emails to PDF, the resulting file will be a PDF Portfolio. Users cannot choose otherwise.
- Disabled: When converting multiple emails to PDF, the resulting file will be a single PDF file. Users cannot choose otherwise.
Include Attachments:
- Default: When converting an outlook email to PDF, any attachment in the email will be saved as an attachment in the PDF file. Users can choose otherwise.
- Enabled: When converting an outlook email to PDF, any attachment in the email will be saved as an attachment in the PDF file. Users cannot choose otherwise.
- Disabled: When converting an outlook email to PDF, any attachment in the email will not carry over to the PDF file. Users cannot choose otherwise.
Customize Outlook add-in using registry
It is not possible to do this via registry.
Customize Outlook add-in using command line
It is not possible to do this via command line.
Customize Outlook add-in using GPO
- Open Group Policy Editor
- Navigate to Foxit PDF Editor > Preferences
- Click on Outlook COM add-in
- Select "Enabled"
- Check the setting you'd like to customize