FreeCommander - PDF viewer


After activating the main menu item "File → View" or the "F3" key a .PDF file or .EPUB file highlighted in the active panel is opened in the FreeCommander PDF viewer.

This is only possible in the 64 bit version of FreeCommander.

In addition under the menu item "Tools → Settings → View → Viewer → General" PDF has to be checked to open a .PDF file, or EPUB has to be checked to open a .EPUB file. 


The user interface of the PDF viewer

The user interface consists of four parts.

Content panel

The content panel shows the content of the current .pdf-file or .epub file.

A right click on the panel opens a context menu with the following menu items:

Pages/Bookmarks panel

The pages/bookmarks panel is located left of the content panel.

It can be shown or hidden by the context menu item "Show pages/bookmarks panel", or the actions toolbar icon .

It is visible only, if the file contains more than one page or at least one bookmark.

TAB pages

The tab pages is visible only, if the file contains more than one page. It consists of a thumbnail per page and a slider to change the size of the thumbnails by moving the triangle. Clicking a page thumbnail shows its content in the content panel.

TAB bookmarks

The tab bookmarks is visible only, if the file contains more than one bookmark. It shows a tree of the bookmarks of the file. Clicking a bookmark opens the page that contains the bookmark in the content panel.

Attachments panel

The attachments panel is located below the content panel. It can be shown or hidden by the context menu item "Show attachments panel" or the actions toolbar icon .

It contains:

Actions toolbar

The actions toolbar is located above the content panel. It can be shown or hidden by the context menu item "Show action toolbar".

It contains the following command icons:


The size of the actions toolbar icons can be be switched between large and small by right clicking an empty toolbar space.