February 22, 2008 – 2:37 pm
On our web site and in our marketing materials we’ve used words like ’streamlined’ and ‘easy-to-use’ to describe the PDF creation functionality we support in our range of products. I thought I’d try to explain what we really mean when we say it and why it can be important to you if you regularly create [...]
February 21, 2008 – 10:15 am
For a bit fun I’ve recently been receiving tweets whenever anyone mentions Adobe Acrobat. Below are the three most humorous.
And yes, I know Acrobat is a competitor to our Nitro Pro and this post probably looks like a cheap shot, but I couldn’t resist because they’re just plain funny.
“Hey Adobe Acrobat, thanks for installing yourself [...]
February 11, 2008 – 10:22 am
The two biggest things to look at when you want to reduce the size of PDF files are removing objects and downsampling/shrinking the images it contains.
1. Re-create the PDF to reduce PDF file size
A handy trick for reducing PDF file size is to re-create or ‘re-fry’ your PDF. By creating the PDF again you can strip out plenty [...]
February 7, 2008 – 5:50 pm
TechCrunch in particular has gone all crazy for the new online PDF viewer Issuu. It’s hard to argue with the fact that it’s raised the bar on slick presentation (it has that clean, Mac look and feel to it) but to claim it is the first online viewer that doesn’t suck is a bit of [...]
February 4, 2008 – 1:31 pm
I’ve finally found an XP replacement for the last remaining feature in Windows Vista that was stopping me from wiping my laptop clean and heading back to happy days with Windows XP.
It’s called Launchy, and is a tool that means you no longer have to go searching through a long list of installed applications in [...]
