If you haven’t already heard, we’ve just announced the launch of Nitro PDF Professional 6 and today are featured on the Download.com homepage.
The release comes from almost a year of long days and nights by our product management and development teams. A special thanks goes to them and to those of you who shared feedback on Nitro Pro, told us what you wanted, and participated in the beta program. Thank you all!
So what’s the difference between version 5 and 6? In short, a lot. Major new features, enhancements of existing features, bug fixes, and ‘under the hood’ work that will make working with PDF files in Nitro Pro even faster and easier.
This blog post quickly runs you through our latest version, but it doesn’t really do it justice. The best way to learn about Nitro Pro 6 is to grab the 14-day trial and see for yourself.
If you want to learn more, read the full feature list, get free 14-day trial, or update your version 5 to 6, follow the appropriate link.All-new conversion (exporting) engine
Our all-new, accurate conversion engine streamlines exporting content from PDF files for reuse in other applications. Designed in particular to work best with PDF files that originally came from Microsoft Word, our PDF-to-Word converter produces files that reproduce the look-and-feel of the original Microsoft Word and PDF versions, while being easy to edit. Features include:
- Converting content based on how you’re going to reuse it. Convert PDF files to DOC or RTF. Choose from conversion modes designed to create files that precisely reproduce the look of the originals, or ones more suited to major editing and restructuring — all depending on how you intend to use them.
- Accurate paragraph reproduction. Generate files with well-formatted, correctly-justified, and easy-to-edit paragraphs, eliminating the need for manual reformatting or other tweaking. (Not as easy as it might sound!)
- Convert tables. Convert tabular PDF content into editable tables, including complex and irregular tables.
- Scalable charts, graphs, diagrams, and vector images. Convert vector-based images into scalable objects in Microsoft Word (wherever possible).
- Detect header- and footer-based content and turn them into active headers and footers, or remove that content from your output.
- Extract text and all images, while excluding all the formatting and layout information.
Better, faster PDF creation
The creation engine is all new too. Designed with performance in mind, the engine creates PDF files much faster on average than version 5, while offering more control over your output.
- 50% faster creation than Nitro Pro 5 (on average).
- Create PDF/A compliant PDF files (PDF/A-1b) and ensure your documents will be fully accessible in the years to come.
- Greater creation control with an expanded range of conversion options, you can produce more consistent PDF files. Includes output settings for PDF/A-1b compliance, document information, security, open options, font embedding, and image compression, along with the ability to store settings for quick reuse.
Commenting List and Summarize Comments
The new Comments List panel adds support for multi-line comments, letting you view each piece of text feedback in its entirety and making working with longer comments much easier.
The new Summarize Comments feature further simplifies the process of reviewing feedback, enabling you to review page content and comments side-by-side — both onscreen and on paper.
Document management system (DMS) support
Added WebDAV support means you can now use Nitro Pro with most popular document management systems, including Hummingbird, Documentum, and SharePoint.
Easy-to-use Navigation pane
The Pages, Bookmarks and Signatures panels are now much easier to display and hide as they’re accessible directly from the left edge of the Nitro Pro window.
Better text editing
The new Text Editing context ribbon places all text editing tools in the one place and displays the moment you start editing text. In addition, Nitro Pro 6 handles fonts better, letting you embed and subset embed fonts as you edit. 
Improved image optimization
The Optimize Documents tool now gives you far greater control over how your images are shrunk.
Grid and Snap to Grid
New grid and snap-to-grid capabilities simplify the process of designing and laying form fields, links and other objects.
Transparent image support
Stamps and digital signatures now support transparent images, letting you use a greater range of images and have them looking much better in your PDF files.
Zoom with your mouse
New Zoom tool feature makes zooming in and out easier. When you have the Zoom tool selected, just hold down your Control button and use your mouse scroll wheel to move in and out.
More intuitive Pencil annotation tool
In Nitro Pro 5, adding several Pencil annotations in a row (something I love to do) was difficult as you had to switch out of the tool and back to ensure your pop-up notes were kept separate for each Pencil annotation. Nitro Pro 6 works more intuitively and means you never need to switch in and out of tools — after a short pause of inaction Nitro Pro 6 assumes any subsequent annotation should be treated as a new annotation and should have its own pop-up note.
Getting Started dialog
A new-and-improved Getting Started dialog for learning about Nitro Pro.
Support & troubleshooting tools
To make it easier for you to repair Nitro Pro when changes are made on Windows, use Nitro Pro’s in-built tools to fix common problems that can occur with print drivers, Microsoft Office add-ins, and more. In addition, quickly and automatically collect all relevant system information so our support team can help you faster.
Optimized PDF engine
Nitro Pro’s core PDF library has been completely optimized, resulting in smaller file sizes, faster open and save times, and much more.
As I said, this post is just a taste — you really need to get the 14-day free trial to see the difference.
We’re now heading out to celebrate!
