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.

Customize Nitro Pro to the Way You Work

The Nitro PDF Professional interface is set up in a particular way by default but it’s easy to customize based on how you like to work. It’s simply a matter of familiarizing yourself with the settings and configuring Nitro Pro [...]

Create PDF Files: eBook Versus Screen PDFs

In addition to providing the ability to customize your PDF output settings, the free (Windows-based) PrimoPDF provides four predefined configurations based on popular PDF usages –- Screen, Print, eBook, and Prepress. Although providing eBook and Screen options might seem redundant [...]

The First Web-to-PDF Tool for Firefox – Free and Out Now

Our PDF Download 2.0 beta program has come to an end and we’re very pleased announce the official launch of version 2.0. To coincide with the big release, CNET has today made PDF Download 2.0 available exclusively through Download.com and [...]

Word to PDF Conversion: Making Smarter PDF Files

This post looks at Microsoft Word to PDF conversion, and how, by converting files from within Microsoft Word to PDF, you can create more intelligent PDF files faster. I won’t step you through how to create and secure your PDF [...]

PDF Top Tips From the Support and Product Management Team

Chatting with some of the support and product management team earlier in the week, we thought what better way to introduce some of the people behind Nitro Pro than by having them submit one of their favorite tips for getting [...]

PDF Download 2.0 beta for Firefox now available

Our new PDF Download 2.0 extension for Firefox 2 & 3 and Flock 1 has been in a private beta for a little while now, but this week we’re opening the program up to everyone.

Sign up for the beta

If you’re not familiar [...]

Nitro PDF Professional 5.4 Available for Immediate Free Download

If you’re a long-time Nitro Pro user, you’re probably already aware that our large ‘dot’ releases are usually much more than mere bug fixes. The brand-new release today is no exception. Along with the fixes and performance improvements we’ve implemented [...]

Making PDF Files More Usable for Distribution

While creating a PDF file is pretty easy to do these days, there’s plenty of ways you can make it a better and more usable file for you and your recipeients. Of course, ‘usable’ can mean different things to different people. For [...]

New Web-Based PDF Editor Goes Online

We covered PDF Hammer a while back on this blog and are today very pleased to announce it has become the latest addition to the Nitro PDF Software family of free PDF software tools. We’re also pleased to announce that [...]

Running Nitro PDF Professional on a Mac

Steve will be pleased. No doubt he’s been waiting impatiently for this as have I the iPhone 2.0 release.
We can confirm that Nitro PDF Professional 5 runs nicely on Mac, with the help of virtualization software.

This blog post is not [...]