Author Archives: Chris Dahl

Nitro Pro 5.3.3 released

Nitro PDF Professional 5.3.3 was released on our website this week. It includes a number of important bug fixes, and an update to the Tools panel.
We’ve broken out some of the features (Edit, Snapshot) on the Tools panel that were [...]

Interview with John Warnock from 1986

There’s an interesting interview with John Warnock (co-founder of Adobe Systems, major brain behind PostScript and PDF) over at Programmers at Work.
http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/john-warnock/
PDF wasn’t around when this interview was done, but you can see in one of his responses he’s talking [...]

XP here I come!

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 [...]

Nitro PDF Professional 5.3.2 released

The latest version of Nitro PDF Professional (5.3.2) was released last week, and contains some new functionality along with a number of bug fixes. We recommend that all existing users upgrade (free) to the latest version.
New with this release is [...]

Use iTunes as a PDF organizer

Thought iTunes was just for music and videos? Nope, it also doubles as a PDF organizer!
Check out the post over at Lifehacker for all the details.
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Great browser extension - Cooliris Preview

Check out this great browser extension that allows you to preview web pages without your browser having to change its current location. It’s called Cooliris Preview, and is available for all major web browsers.
What makes this an absolute gem for [...]

How to increase the viewable document area for PDF files

We occasionally have customers asking for a way to increase the area the document is displayed in. It’s a pretty easy response for us, as there is already a way to do this built into the ribbon control. It’s called [...]

The difference between Rotate View and Rotate Pages when viewing PDF files

Often we receive a support case where a customer encounters an issue with rotating pages. Many times it’s due to confusion over the differences between the Rotate View and Rotate Pages features.

We’ve created a knowledge base article (see link below) [...]

Shrink large PDF files: The difference between ‘Save’ and ‘Save As’

If you’re finding that the size of files when using the Save feature in Nitro PDF Pro is on the large side, try using the Save As feature instead.
PDF files have something that is called incremental updates, where any changes [...]

Preview PDFs in the browser with no PDF viewer in sight

Check out this really cool online service for previewing PDF (and other) documents. It’s called Docufarm, and is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox (you can also access the service manually from their website), so that when you click on a [...]