Author Archives: Richard Crocker

Richard is a director at Nitro PDF Software and has been involved with PDF and the technology that surrounds it for about the last ten years. He still contributes occasionally to Planet PDF, the site he helped start, but today is more likely to be found writing for the PDF Blog or publishing free eBooks at his Planet eBook classic literature site.

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Our new Word to PDF Converter beta launched

August 8, 2010 – 6:10 pm

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Our new Word to PDF Converter beta launched
Following on from our free PDF to Word and PDF to Excel conversion services, we now have a new free Word to PDF service. Just upload your DOC, DOCX, or RTF file and we’ll quickly email back a PDF version. The service can handle files from Microsoft Word [...]

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PrimoPDF 5 now available in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands languages

August 6, 2010 – 10:05 am

A few days ago we quietly released a major new update to PrimoPDF. Like our other popular PDF software products — Nitro PDF Professional and Nitro PDF Reader — PrimoPDF is now available for German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch speakers. If one of these is your preferred language, we hope you find using Primo even [...]

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Nitro PDF Reader: The before and after

May 27, 2010 – 3:58 pm

My recent experiences moving my mortgage to one bank and then quickly to another (don’t ask!), brought into sharp focus the challenges of working with paper and electronic documents, and just how many pain points still exist for most of us, especially when moving backwards and forwards between paper and electronic files.

What was particularly interesting [...]

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A first look at PrimoPDF’s creation settings

May 20, 2010 – 3:25 am

Configure the default base settings for your PDF conversion. You may access the creation settings by clicking the PrimoPDF Options button, then selecting Creation.
PDF Settings – Configure compatibility and quality settings.
PDF Version – Sets the PDF version for compatibility with viewing and editing applications.
1.2 – Compatible with Adobe Reader version 3.0 or later
1.3 – Compatible [...]

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