G2

Andrew P.

civil engineer

Civil Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2026

"Fast, Field-Ready PDF Markups with Seamless SharePoint & Procore Sync"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Foxit PDF Editor?

What sets Foxit apart for me is how well it holds up in the field, not just at a desk. The ribbon-style interface lets me pin my most-used tools, measurement, stamp, and redline, right at the top, so I’m not digging through menus while I’m standing on-site with a tablet in one hand. It also syncs cleanly with our SharePoint and Procore setup, which means I can pull the latest drawing revision straight onto my tablet instead of waiting on an email from the office. Markups stay in sync well enough for day-to-day coordination with contractors and inspectors.

On performance, a typical structural spec set or submittal package opens noticeably faster than it ever did in Acrobat. That said, truly massive, multi-layer civil grading sheets still make my older tablet work for it. Pricing is what ultimately won the argument internally: our per-seat perpetual license ended up costing less than half of what we were paying across five Acrobat Pro seats, and that gap alone paid for the switch within the first year.

Onboarding was almost a non-event. Our field crew and a couple of subcontractors were marking up drawings the same day, with zero formal training. The AI Assistant has genuinely earned its place, too, I’ve used it to pull soil bearing capacity numbers straight out of long geotechnical boring logs instead of reading two hundred pages myself. I still double-check anything it pulls from dense, tabular survey data before it goes into a report.

One note on how I’d carry this forward: the support experience and the heavier performance limitations (like lag on huge scanned files, or a slower helpdesk response during a busy week) fit more naturally under “dislikes.” And the ROI/paper-savings angle can be quantified further in a “problems solved” section once you plug in your own real numbers, that’s what keeps the full review feeling genuinely lived-in rather than assembled from a checklist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foxit PDF Editor?

On a tablet out in the field, the ribbon and side panels get crowded quickly once measurement, markup, and form tools are all pinned. I sometimes end up closing panels just to see the full drawing sheet, which is a UI/UX tradeoff I didn’t expect.

Performance is still my biggest gripe overall. Large, multi-layer grading plans and scanned civil sheets with heavy line work can stutter when I’m panning or zooming, and it’s even more noticeable on older field hardware.

Integration with Procore is fine for viewing drawings, but pushing markups back up has occasionally created duplicate file versions. That once left a subcontractor unsure which redline was the current one.

Support has been inconsistent as well. A licensing hiccup during a tight bid deadline took almost two days to resolve, which felt slow given how time-sensitive our work usually is. On top of that, the licensing/admin portal is clunky when reassigning perpetual seats to new hardware.

The AI Assistant is genuinely helpful for pulling numbers out of long geotechnical logs, but it still misreads values in dense or non-standard tables and footnotes. Because of that, I don’t trust its output without cross-checking the source page myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Foxit PDF Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest problem this solved for us was our dependence on plotting full-size drawing sets just to do a field review. Now we handle markups, measurements, and stamped approvals digitally on-site, and the Procore integration lets me pull the latest revision directly instead of waiting for someone in the office to email it over. That change alone has shaved real days off our submittal review cycle.

On the cost side, moving five seats from Acrobat Pro to Foxit’s licensing has saved us a meaningful amount each year, about $900 across the team once you factor in the per-seat difference. That’s money we’re putting toward field equipment instead of software renewals.

The AI Assistant has also cut down the time I spend digging through long geotechnical boring logs for bearing capacity numbers, though I still cross-check anything it surfaces before it goes into a report.

The one area that still costs us time is Support. The licensing delay we hit during that bid deadline was exactly the kind of hiccup that, if it happened again mid-project, could eat into some of the time we’ve gained elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.