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Declare your PDF Independence

It’s time to stand up and declare your independence—your PDF independence. Portable Document Format (PDF) has been an ISO Open Standard since 2008, with an ever-increasing availability of alternative applications—many of which don’t allow their users to make the most of their PDF files.  With annoying updates, deliberately restricted functionality, in-application advertising, bundled third party ... Read more

New Year, New Job: Make your resume pop with PDF

We think it’s pretty awesome to work here at Nitro and we try to make it about as much fun as work can be without working at an amusement park.  That said, at times the office can resemble a zoo—as seen recently at our Melbourne Christmas party with a real live Milo the Wombat!   ... Read more

Congratulations, Adobe!

After acquiring EchoSign in 2011, Adobe has now added a ‘Sign’ button to Adobe Reader, allowing you to “Sign any document yourself in Adobe Reader for free… all in one click.” You can read all about it here. On behalf of the millions of Nitro Reader users who’ve had digital signatures since 2010, we’d like ... Read more
 

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Our Top 5 Keyboard Shortcuts for Nitro Pro & Nitro Reader

Take a (Keyboard) Shortcut   Regular users of any application tend to rely on a handful of keyboard shortcuts, and most of us are familiar with at least a couple. They’re are a great way to shave time off the tasks you perform most frequently—sidestepping the mouse, menu, and anything else that gets in the way. ... Read more
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Ring in the New Year with smaller PDFs

As 2011 comes to a close and we gear up for 2012, our New Year’s resolution is to make working with PDF files even easier for our users.  Nitro has already taken a step in the right direction by producing simple and easy-to-use PDF software like the all-new Nitro Pro 7 and our free Nitro ... Read more
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Florida lawyers to adopt OCR capability in 2012

As of January 1st, 2012, PDF software with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capability will be required of all lawyers who file documents with the Southern District of Florida courts according to an administrative procedures document published here (Section 3G, Article 5).  Text searchable documents are now commonplace for court filings and the growing trend of using ... Read more
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Convert your snail mail to email with PDF

In 1860, the first riders of the Pony Express traveled 11 days and 12 hours from Sacramento, California to St. Joseph Missouri (just north of Kansas City) to deliver bags of mail across the 2000-mile trail.  Today, we can send an email to someone on the other side of the globe within seconds yet we ... Read more
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Faster, easier redaction: Using the ‘Search & Redact’ tool

Nitro Pro 7 introduces Redaction, a tool you can use to permanently delete sensitive information – like text, images, vector objects, and document metadata – while ensuring that the underlying and associated trace data is also deleted. You select the objects or area in question, mark it for redaction, and apply the redaction – pretty simple, ... Read more
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Welcoming Nitro’s newest team member: Tiho Bajic, VP Product Engineering

We’re stoked to welcome Tihomir (Tiho) Bajic to Nitro.  He’s coming on board as our new VP of Product Engineering.  Tiho was the first employee at Rypple, an awesome startup revolutionizing the world of social performance management where he rose to Director of User Acquisition.  He recently came over to Nitro to lead the effort ... Read more
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Electronic business cards: A greener way to network

How many times have you run into someone, searched frantically for that business card, and said — for the thousandth time — ”Sorry, I don’t have any on me”? What about the countless times you’ve received a card, left it in your pocket, and forgot it in the wash?  Well, say goodbye to conventional business cards with ... Read more
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