Nitro PDF Professional V6

by ReLaunch

Product Features

• Create PDF (from 300+ file types)
• Microsoft Office integration (in-Office shortcuts, intelligent PDF creation)
• Convert PDF to Microsoft Word
• Combine multiple files (and multiple formats) into one PDF, instantly
• Extract and split pages from PDF files

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002PY3YWU
• Item model number: NPP-RETAIL-REG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #9 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Nitro PDF professional, the complete Adobe Acrobat alternative, enables you to do more with PDF using powerful tools to create, convert, edit, combine, secure, annotate, form-fill, and save 100% industry-standard PDF files.

Product Description

Create and Edit PDFs with the Adobe Acrobat Alternative.Nitro PDF Professional the complete Acrobat alternative enables you to do more with PDF through powerful tools to create convert edit combine secure annotate form-fill and save 100% industry-standard PDF files. Recipient of multiple best-product awards Nitro Pro is specifically designed for the business user and makes working with PDF faster and easier than ever before! Features: Reliably create professional documents: Easily create industry-standard PDF and PDF/A files from virtually any file with full control over PDF output options.  Convert to PDF with one-click ease from over 300 popular file types (including Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint WordPerfect and more). Combine content from a variety of sources into a single polished PDF document that can be opened with any PDF viewing application including Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader .   Painlessly edit PDF files: From correcting minor typos and inserting text to more advanced image editing tasks easily make last-minute changes directly within your PDF files. Create consistency throughout your documents by inserting headers footers watermarks and page numbering while adding interactivity through bookmarks links and buttons. Optimize PDF for distribution reducing file size while creating polished recipient-ready PDF files.   Reuse content in a variety of ways: Easily convert PDF to other formats with industry-leading accuracy enabling quick document repurposing in Word OpenOffice WordPerfect and other popular programs.  Create output that both retains the look-and-feel of the original PDF and is easy to edit. Gather and manage document feedback: Efficiently collaborate and share your feedback with others using intuitive commenting tools to add notes text feedback drawing markups and more. Reply to feedback from other reviewers or view consolidate organize and summarize reviewer comments all from a single location

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

70 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best of the bunch I tested for home office use, March 11, 2010

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TTP3317 "Go Sooners" (Arlington, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nitro PDF Professional V6 (CD-ROM)

The best of the bunch I tested for home office use.

I use PDF creation way more than I thought I would. I hardly ever print out web pages anymore, I've possibly saved enough on toner to pay for the program, if not, I will.

I purchased Nitro PDF Pro 6 after I tested the trial version. I also sampled trial versions of Adobe Acrobat Pro, ABBYY PDF Transformer, PDFill, gDoc Fusion (a unique, very cool application) and Nitro PDF Express. I came to the conclusion that THERE IS NO PERFECT PDF PROGRAM, and suggest you make your choice on how much you will use the program.

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the original. It is the largest, most complete, most complex, and most expensive. It is fairly intuitive if you have used a lot of software. Of all the programs I tested, it would require the most time and effort to become a power user. It is the Big Boy PDF program, but it didn't convert to Word any better than Nitro PDF Pro 6. Actually, none of the programs convert with 100% accuracy. You can get Adobe Acrobat Pro for $125 at a number of sites. If you want the biggest tool box spend the additional $50 and get this one.

ABBYY PDF Transformer works and it come with an add on screen capture utility that allows you make a PDF file of whatever is displayed on your monitor. I thought less of its user interface than the others, I wasn't able to just jump right in and start using it. My biggest dislike is that the program's menus that plug into Word and Excel float on the desktop rather than on Word or Excel's tool bars. I did not check to see if there is a way anchor it.

PDFill did not interest me at all. I didn't test it enough to add comments.

gDoc Fusion is very cool. It is unique in that its interface is like touch technology, and it will work with touch screen monitors. I think it did the poorest job of converting PDF to Word. To be fair, though, it worked OK at converting PDFs generated by gDocs to Word. It is exceptionally good for scrolling through the pages of documents; better than all the rest. Check this one out just see how it works. Its price is comparable and there is a home user license option.

As a home office user, Nitro PDF Pro 6 is the program I liked the best. The interface uses ribbon menus similar to Office 2007. I was able to jump in and start using it. It opens with a tutorial asking what you want to do, create something new, convert something, edit something, combine or split something, sign or add security, or review, etc. Then it opens the instruction on how to do the chosen task. It won't take long for you to turn that opening tutorial off; the program is easy to learn. It converts as well as Adobe Acrobat Pro; though in all it is not as big and powerful (the program is about 1/10th the size). Regarding the files size issue mentioned in other reviews, Nitro Pro PDF6 gives you options. I converted a 98KB Word document using the Web Quality setting, the PDF file was a smaller 35KB. Using the Office Quality setting, the PDF file was a smaller 34KB. Using the Print Quality, the PDF file was a much larger 1.14MB. Nitro PDF Express does the creation and converting as well as the Pro version, but the interface I thought was much weaker. I searched and found a coupon and purchased a license for the Pro version for just $25 more than the Express version. I think the Pro version worth the extra expense.

My primary interest in a PDF application was to get my own documents onto my Kindle (to do so, set the document's font to a 20-24 pt font size and convert it to PDF/A, then, with the Kindle connected to a USB port, copy the PDF document to the Kindle's Document folder), but I have found I use it for saving info from web pages most of all.

UPDATE: Nitro has released a free update to v 6.1.2.1 which has significantly increased the speed of the program. It is noticably faster now.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worked for me; find out if it works for you, January 23, 2010

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John W. Wendt (Lubbock, TX and Gulu, Uganda) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nitro PDF Professional V6 (CD-ROM)

I see some rather negative reviews whose experience with this product were clearly different from my own. If you want to experience the product first-hand, go to the Nitro pdf website and download it for free. You will have 14 days of functionality (no watermarks on converted files) to give it a good go.

So--how did it work for me? Very well. So intuitive that I really didn't need any of their detailed instructions, which were there for the using anyway. I first used it to convert a pdf file that was originally created in Adobe InDesign to Word, so I could edit it. Now, was the conversion perfect? Well, perfect is a very relative term when it comes to pdf files, because there can be no way that the program can figure out exactly where you want your tabs, page breaks, etc. and it depends also on how the file was created in the first place, the fonts that were used (they may not be on your computer), etc. Bottom line: It was converted well enough so that I could edit all of the elements, re-format it to a way that was convenient for me, and save it back as a pdf file that was indistinguishable from the original except for my edits, which were many. To do this, however, I had to use Powerpoint on some illustrations to do things like add the correct borders and shading to pictures, then put the modified things back into my Word document. I've used it more recently to convert published journal articles downloaded in .pdf format that had multiple columns, illustrations and graphs, running headings, and titles that crossed both columns. Surprisingly, those conversions were perfect and required no editing.

I then got busy and converted a lot of other pdf documents to Word. This was a breeze with their batch conversion feature. You can select a whole slew of files from different folders, and it will save the converted files back to the multiple original folders.

Another nice feature was the "extract images" feature, which very rapidly extracted all of the images from selected pdf files and saved those images to the original folder locations--a very fast batch process.

Bottom line: TRY IT YOURSELF WITH THE FREE TRIAL VERSION. It may not work on everything, but it worked well for me. Expect some editing and re-formating after conversion; that's just the nature of the pdf game. Good luck--hope it works for you too!

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compares favourably with Adobe - especially at $99, May 13, 2010

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Del Marls (NY, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nitro PDF Professional V6 (CD-ROM)

Acrobat and PDF have been a mainstay in our electornic document workflows for many years.

Since Nuance's PDF Converter and Nitro PDF were both released earlier this year, I have had them both installed within our organisation in order to rate them for prospective roll out through many more seats than what we currently have Acrobat installed on.

The first thing we noticed was that they both used the same base technology that provides the viewing, creation and editing functionality. (As such some of the reviews comparing the two seem somewhat odd!)

There were however differences.

Nuance PDF Converter includes a tool called 'FormTyper' which basically assists you in adding form fields to your PDF documents. The upside is that it can save you some time when building your interactive PDF forms, but you can also use the standard form tools to add form fields (I found this to also be in Nitro).

Nitro PDF includes a comprehensive set of neat new plug-ins that we have found really beneficial to our business. The Optimize Document feature (like the PDF Optimizer in Acrobat) allowed us to dramatically reduce the size of our PDFs, and the Split File feature breaks down some of our massive PDF files into smaller individual files.

Furthermore, Nitro PDF has released a number of updates to their product since we purchased. Some have fixed bugs and others have added functionality. The next to last release led to us having trouble with activation even though we had the product for more than 5 months. Since then they have released a new update which has rectified those problems and added further functionality. Not all updates have been perfect, but we prefer to have software that is continually being improved. There have been no updates to Nuance PDF Converter since we purchased.

FWIW We have just decided to roll out Nitro PDF because the feature set worked better with our day to day requirements for PDF workflow.

I would recommend trialing both products in order to decide which you would use.

Hope this helps.

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Update: Jan 2008

Nitro PDF released a new version (5.3) of the software late last year. I have been testing the new version since. The biggest difference is that Nitro PDF is no longer based on the same technology as it previously was. While the functionality is little changed, there are some major differences:

1. The product is far more stable than both the previous versions of Nitro PDF and Nuance PDF Converter that we had tested. After speaking to the Nitro PDF support team on a regular basis (they were helpful) over the last year or so, it is obvious that the developers have taken note of some of the issues with the previous version. This is a big tick!

2. The interface has changed. Frankly, I am somewhat lukewarm to what they have done. It does use the new Vista ribbon interface though, so some may find its progression a good thing ....

3. This version runs a lot faster on my PC than the previous version. Particularly when creating PDF files which is a good thing.

All in all, it is well worth upgrading to this version. Nitro PDF continues to work hard on improving their software

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Update: May 2010

I recently took the opportunity to upgrade to Version 6, after testing it and finding that there were a couple of serious improvements to the software:

1. PDF to Word conversion is now *seriously* improved. This was one area in which I still needed to use Acrobat occasionally. I've tested both against each other and have to say that Nitro PDF produces Word documents of at least equivalent quality, and sometimes better

2. OK, I've used the new ribbon inteface for long enough now. It is more intuitive than the old interface

3. PDF creation continues to get faster

The only gripe I had about the upgrade process was the new requirement to activate the software. I completely understand why software companies need to do this. The changeover was just not as smooth as hoped.

I am happy I made the change.