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Using Nitro Pro to review, annotate, and collaborate on web-based content

Nitro PDF Professional offers a range of ways with which to capture information – from nearly any source – and convert it to PDF for annotation and distribution. Recently, we covered how to share charts from Microsoft® Excel. Now, we’re going to show you how to get your web-based content into a PDF file.

Nitro Pro’s ‘Create from Clipboard’ feature allows you to remove one step from the process, and create a PDF directly from your screen, removing the need to first save a separate HTML- or image-based file.

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This feature can be particularly useful when, for example, reviewing your company’s website – updating a form or revising layouts – but it can also be used for capturing the information in a pop-up window from any program, or absolutely anything on your screen at any given time. I use it all the time – often, when writing for this blog! Today, we’re going to focus on using Nitro Pro to capture web-based content.

There are two ways to use Microsoft® Windows’® inbuilt screenshot capture function, which will copy your screenshot to the clipboard:

  1. Alt-Printscreen. Holding the ‘Alt’ key and pressing the ‘Printscreen’ key (PrtScn, PrtScr, etc.) will capture the active window – that is, just the window you currently have open.
  2. Printscreen. Using ‘Printscreen’ will capture everything on your screen.

In this example, we’ll be looking at a form on the Nitro website.

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In the above image, we can see a screenshot captured and the resultant PDF created from it. As you can see, we’ve captured an image of this particular webpage in Nitro Pro, but we may want to exclude some superfluous information, such as the address bar, or perhaps include only the form itself.

We can do this using our original image, in Nitro Pro, using the ‘Snapshot’ feature.

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Simply select ‘Snapshot’ and use it to highlight the area you want to capture – in this case, we’re just looking at the form itself.

Once you’ve selected the area you want to include, you can comment, highlight, and mark-up the document for collaboration and distribution. Use a broad range of tools under the ‘Review’ tab.

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You may want to rearrange the form’s layout, suggest inserting something new, or draw attention to a particular item. In the example below, we can see the form, with comments, and the Drawing Tool has been used to draw attention to a couple of areas.

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Once you’ve finished your review of the document, simply save it, and you’ve instantly got a visual reference, with your mark-up and comments, for the recipient of your PDF file. Using Nitro Pro for this task ensures that the web-based content remains static – unlike, for example, using word processing software – and, your document is clearly marked up for the end recipient.

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