Nitro PDF Professional

by Avanquest

Product Features

• PDF creation and editing product offers full control over PDF documents
• Create PDF documents from within MS Office; turn PDF files into Word documents
• Copy from other applications and paste into PDF; create, save, and print forms
• Control user access and secure PDFs with passwords and digital signatures
• Edit text; organize comments; insert images; add sticky notes and watermarks

Product Details

Product Manual [4.45mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AP2X0A
• Item model number: 4380
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,880 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #75 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Nitro PDF Professional is an affordable, fully-featured PDF creation and editing product. It gives you full control over PDF documents, including commenting, form-filling and authoring, digital signatures, text editing, one-click creation from Microsoft Office, and more.

Benefits:
Effectively work and share in PDF. Nitro PDF Professional is everything you need to create, edit, and work in PDF format. Gain total control of your documents.

Create and Convert PDFs
Integrated PDF creation from within Microsoft Office. Create PDF from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint using in application toolbar buttons. Nitro PDF Professional’s smart conversion utility generates bookmarks from headings and styles, hyperlinks from table of contents, footnotes, endnotes, and comments.

Turn PDF Files into Microsoft Word Documents
Lost the source of your PDF? Need to make numerous edits? No problem! Converting PDF files into Microsoft Word documents couldn’t be any easier. Your word documents will keep the same formatting, text, tables, and graphics as the original PDF file.

Direct Copy and Paste
Copy content from other applications and directly paste into an open PDF.

Edit, Comment, and Add Bookmarks in PDF
Insert images, watermarks, and edit text to make changes to your PDF without having the original source file. Comment your PDFs and share your ideas with all of your associates. Track who make the comments and when they were made. Bookmark your PDF documents and allow readers to skip, browse, and jump to sections of interest

Secure Personal Files
Control user access and secure PDFs with passwords or digital signatures. Choose to allow or deny printing, high-resolution printing, document modification, content copying, and extraction.

Create, Save, and Print Forms
Create your own forms for business use, or save and print out forms you have already filled out.

Features:

• Edit text: Edit right onto the PDF. Correct spelling mistakes and make minor updates to the text. No need to have the source document on hand.
• Organize edits and comments: Keep track of all the comments associates have made on your PDF with the comments panel. See the date, page number, and who made each edit.
• Highlight and cross out: Markup text with the highlight and cross-out tool. Highlight important sections and cross-out unnecessary information.
• Drawing tools: Draw directly onto your PDFs. Easily draw ovals, rectangles, and lines on your documents. Or use the pencil tool to customize your drawings.
• Stamps: Stamp a document with one of the pre-designed templates (approved, Draft, Review, etc) or create your own to apply to specified pages.
• Sticky notes: Just like their real-life counterparts. Except they don’t fall off, get lost, and you never run out of space when writing on them.
• Insert images: Insert images into your PDF. Drag to the desired location, adjust the size, and rotate the image.
• Loupe tool: Zoom in on a specified portion of your PDF to get a more accurate view. Great for architectural drawings.
• Watermarks: Apply a watermark to one, several, or all pages of the PDF. Add dynamic content like page numbers.
• Copy and paste: copy contents from other applications and paste it directly onto any PDF document.

Product Description

Create & Edit PDFs 300% Faster Nitro PDF Professional is an affordable, fully-featured PDF creation and editing product. It gives you full control over PDF documents, including commenting, form-filling and authoring, digital signatures, text editing, one-click creation from Microsoft Office and more. Create and Convert PDFs – Integrated PDF creation from within Microsoft Office. Create PDF from within Word, Excel and PowerPoint using in application toolbar buttons. Nitro PDF Professional’s smart conversion utility generates bookmarks from headings and styles, hyperlinks from table of contents, footnotes, endnotes, and comments. Turn PDF Files into Microsoft Word Documents – Lost the source of your PDF? Need to make numerous edits? No problem! Converting PDF files into Microsoft Word documents couldn’t be any easier. Your word documents will keep the same formatting, text, tables and graphics as the original PDF file. Edit, Comment and Add Bookmarks in PDF – Insert images, watermarks, and edit text to make changes to your PDF without having the original source file. Comment your PDFs and share your ideas with all of your associates. Track who make the comments and when they were made. Bookmark your PDF documents and allow readers to skip, browse and jump to sections of interest. Secure Personal Files – Control user access and secure PDFs with passwords or digital signatures. Choose to allow or deny printing, high-resolution printing, document modification, content copying and extraction. Create, Save and Print Forms – Create your own forms for business use, or save and print out forms you have already filled out.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please take note of bogus reviews - you be the judge, December 7, 2005

By 

C. Dahl - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nitro PDF Professional (CD-ROM)

Hi there,

My name's Chris Dahl, I'm the product manager for Nitro PDF Professional here at ARTS PDF.

It's unfortunate that we have to make a post of commercial nature here, however we've recently noticed a number of bogus reviews appearing that seem to have been written by a competitor of ours. If you take a look at the reviews from the following people (click on their name to see both the Nitro *and* the surprisingly glowing countering Scansoft review) I think you'll see it's quite apparent this is the case.

1. Dan Allerbach
2. Chris Malloy
3. kelli wakeman
4. Anthony Alphiso

What I'd suggest you do is download the trial version of each product from the respective websites and let you be the judge on the product. Feel free to contact me directly with any questions, my e-mail address is chris.dahl[at]artspdf.com.

P.S. it's required that you leave a star rating when writing a review on Amazon, so I had no choice but to select 5 stars. What can I say... I love our product!

Regards,
Chris.
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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 software products in one. Amazing software. 2 thumbs up !, October 13, 2005

By 

DISenchanted (NM USA -Land of DISenchantment) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nitro PDF Professional (CD-ROM)

For months I was looking for something to CONVERT PDF files to WORD.

Most products did a so-so job and I just gave up on the project.

Got an email offer to try Nitro PDF and also buy it at a reduced rate.

Got the demo at download.com first, to "test drive" the program.

I had previously downloaded some full color, 6-8 page sales brochures in PDF format.
So I started with them and tested the conversion abilities of Nitro pdf.
A 6-8 page color document took about 3-5 minutes and reproduced the graphics nearly 100% perfect.
[possibly a slight color shift, but definitely "multitudes" better than any other product I've tried].

So I threw a pdf book with 297 pages and lots of pictures at it.

It took about 25 minutes to convert to a Word document format.

Again, the quality and graphics converted very nicely.

Nitropdf offers a demo at several shareware sites.

If you need a PDF creator PLUS a PDF converter, look no further.

The version I tested is 4.9.

UPDATE 03-08-2006
Reviews on PDF-to-Word conversions seem to be all over the spectrum.
In my case, the PDF files I used as test subjects were mostly technical IT-type white-papers and IT related books; that were originally published as soft and hard-back books.
The images being somewhat simplistic, in B&W (not color).

I would really like to see a review done by a major software
review site, which takes every PDF-to-WORD software pkg and
uses the exact same files as test files/subjects.

Then we could truly compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

In my personal experiences, Nitro PDF did better at PDF-to-Word conversions than any other pkg I demo'd.

Another reviewer mentioned AABBY software.
I first obtained a full version of ABBYY software from a pc type magazine from the UK. It came with a CD rom disc that included a full version of ABBYY finereader pro, version 5.
(Prior to that, I had no clue as to who ABBYY was).

When I loaded ABBYY finereader V5, obtained my free unlock/registration key code, installed it and started using the product for OCR, I was totally impressed.
Having tried most every other OCR program out there, I immediately fell in love with ABBYY.
The accuracy of what it scanned was amazing; considering I was using various "inexpensive" scanners (all under $100 regular price, all on sale for under $50).
Considering that scansoft OCR products are between $99 to $150 and that ABBYY is usualy around $179 (or under $100 as an upgrade, INCLUDING competitive upgrades), I would spend the extra to buy the ABBYY finereader OCR.
I like the ABBYY results.
I really like the ABBYY "UPGRADE" policy.
If you can show proof of purchase for a competitor's OCR software, ABBYY will still give you their software at an UPGRADE reduced price. It's a liberal upgrade policy.

Some software makers are so tight-fisted with upgrade policy's; accepting only the previous version of their own product and nothing else.

Getting back to the PDF-to-WORD conversions.

I strongly suggest you TRY before you buy.

In my case, Nitro did a great job; while other folks mentioned less than satisfactory results.
But I've heard that it really depends on the complexity of the PDF being converted.
I've read how some PDF's are easier, or convert better, due to the makeup of the document and/or how it was created.

PS. Tip on getting Nitro for 50% off.
Sign up at V-com and/or Nitro PDF for their newsletter.
A 1/2 price offer for Nitro PDF goes out to their email lists about every 3 months.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!, February 4, 2006

By 

J. Freeman "bibliophile" (Pompano Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nitro PDF Professional (CD-ROM)

I downloaded the trial of this program after having problems with Adobe. It's much better in my opinion. All we needed was the ability to make PDF documents from Excel and Word documents, be able to edit text on PDFs and be able to have customs stamps. I was blown away by how fast it was. On Adobe, if my computer didn't crash it took 15 minutes to make a PDF from a 2 page Excel workbook. By the time I looked down at the time to start timing it, it was done. Also, it automatically took all the pages from the workbook and made a PDF, whereas with Adobe you have to check the setting to bring all the pages and it never really did it right, I had to do them one at a time and then convert them to one PDF. Forget editing text on Adobe, it was so complicated we gave up on that feature. With Nitro, you just highlight the text and start typing. It was so easy. We are definitely buying this product, I thought we had to give up on ever being able to have PDFs replace our current documents.

Also, I didn't have *any* problems installing this. The installation ran like a dream.