Installation Instructions

Installation Instructions
Foxit PDF IFilter has two versions respectively for 32-bit Windows and x64 Windows. You can choose one of them to install into your machine according to your system requirements.

Here, we take Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server for example:

To install Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0 with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, please do the following:

1. Please note that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has been installed successfully.

2. Download Foxit PDF IFilter from Foxit Software Website onto the machine where you wish to install it.

3. Stop the IIS Admin service: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrator Tools > Services > IIS Admin Service > Stop. Close window.

4. Run the Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0 Setup program to install the filter on the server.

5. Download PDF icon from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/pdficon.gif .

6. Copy the downloaded .GIF file to "Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images".

7. Edit the file "Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML":
A. Right-click DOCICON.XML file > click Open With > select Notepad.
B. Add an entry for the .pdf extension. For example, where ICPDF is the name of the .gif file:



C. On the File menu, click Save, and then quit Notepad.

8. Perform an iisreset:
A. Click Start > Run > type "cmd" in the Open line > click OK > type "iisreset" at the command prompt > hit Enter.