Folielle

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Getting started with Folielle.

From the first file to a signed, finished document, in plain language. Looking for keys? See keyboard shortcuts. Checking your PC? See system requirements.

Open and view

In development. Folielle isn't available to download yet. This guide describes the app as it is today so you know what to expect. Join the beta list to hear when it's ready.

  1. Open a file. Press Ctrl + O, drag a PDF onto the window, or pick one from File › Open Recent. You can pin files you use often to the start screen.
  2. Password-protected files ask for the password. A wrong password asks again.
  3. Damaged files are repaired into a copy; your original stays untouched, and Save offers "Save as a repaired copy".
  4. Move around. Scroll, or zoom with Ctrl + mouse wheel or a touchpad pinch; the point under the pointer stays put. Choose single page, continuous, two pages or two pages with a cover.
  5. Panels. Thumbnails (F4), bookmarks (Ctrl + Shift + B) and Find (Ctrl + F, then F3).

Every command is also in the menus and in the command search (Ctrl + K). A reopened file comes back at the page and zoom you left it at.

Edit text

  1. Switch to Edit text (E).
  2. Click a paragraph. It opens for editing with the formatting bar above the page.
  3. Type your changes, then press Ctrl + Enter (or Apply).

The paragraph reflows in the document's font, and content below moves if it grows. Undo with Ctrl + Z and redo with Ctrl + Y.

Find and Replace

Edit › Find and Replace opens a side panel with whole-word and match-case options. Replace all is a single undo step, and the panel lists anything it couldn't change, with the reason.

Add text

Tools › Add Text Box, then click or drag a width on the page. Pick the font, size, colour and alignment. The result is ordinary page text that you can edit again.

Pictures

Switch to Images mode (toolbar Images or Tools › Edit Images). Click a picture to move, resize, rotate, replace, extract or delete it, or insert a new JPEG or PNG.

Comments and markup

Switch to Annotate (M) and pick a tool: highlight (U), sticky note (S), text box (X), pen (P), rectangle (R), plus underline, strike out, ellipse, line and arrow. Select a comment to move, resize, restyle or delete it. The Comments list (Ctrl + Shift + K) filters them and jumps to each one. Set your name for new comments in Settings.

Pages

In the thumbnails, Ctrl- or Shift-click to select several pages, then drag to reorder, or rotate, delete, extract or insert. Drag a PDF from Explorer onto the thumbnails to insert it where the line shows. Combine Files, Split, page labels, headers and footers, watermarks, Bates numbers and Reduce File Size are in the File and Document menus.

Forms

Switch to Forms (F) on a fillable PDF. Type, tick and choose; Tab moves to the next field. Tools › Form Tools has import and export of form data, reset, flatten and the tools to create new fields. More on the forms page.

Signatures

  • Check signatures: the Signatures button (or Tools › Signatures) lists each signature and whether it's valid. The check runs offline; Refresh checks revocation online.
  • Sign: "Sign with certificate…" uses a certificate from your Windows store, a smart card or a .pfx file.
  • Fill and sign: adds a drawn or typed signature image. This is not a digital signature, and Folielle says so.

Redact and clean

  1. Tools › Redact. Mark text, mark an area, or use "Mark all matches" for a word.
  2. Review the marks in the panel; remove any you don't want.
  3. Apply. Folielle writes a new file in which the marked content is really gone. Search it to see for yourself.

Tools › Remove Hidden Information scans for metadata, hidden layers, scripts, attachments and more, shows what it found, and saves a cleaned copy.

Recognize text

On a scanned PDF, choose Tools › Recognize Text (Ctrl + Shift + O). Pick the pages and languages, then start. Afterwards you can search, select and copy the text on the scan.

Convert

File › Convert… has two tabs. Export this PDF makes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, text or image files. Create a PDF turns images, Office files or several PDFs into one PDF; drag the rows to set the order. You can also drop images or Office files on the window. Office conversion needs Word, Excel and PowerPoint, or LibreOffice, on your PC.

Save and recover

  • Save (Ctrl + S) and Save As (Ctrl + Shift + S). Your original file isn't changed until you save.
  • Every save is checked and reopened before it replaces your file. Earlier versions are kept for a while in Folielle's data folder.
  • Crash recovery: if Folielle or Windows stops unexpectedly, start Folielle again and choose Recover.

FAQ

Why can't I edit a paragraph?

Text on rotated pages and vertical Japanese text can't be edited yet, and contents lists with dot leaders are edited line by line. Scanned pages are pictures: run Recognize Text to make them searchable.

Why is there no underline button?

The text editor doesn't draw underlines yet. Use the Underline comment tool in Annotate for now.

My paragraph grew past the bottom of the page.

Folielle doesn't move text onto the next page yet. It warns you instead, so you can shorten the text or adjust the page.

Does Folielle upload my documents?

No. Everything happens on your PC. See security for when Folielle goes online.

How do I get help?

Email support@folielle.com. Tell us what you did, what you expected and what happened, and include the PDF if you can.