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.

Here’s some other ways keep up with him.

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Nitro PDF Software is Windows 7 ready

Windows 7 is just about to be released, with October 22 the official launch day.
Those of you using our desktop-based products and planning to upgrade soon will be pleased to know that our latest versions are fully compatible. Nitro PDF Professional 6 and PrimoPDF 5 are ready right now, while the new, fully-compatible Nitro PDF [...]

Free PDF creation (finally!) made easy. PrimoPDF v5 out now

It’s been a fun week or two for the team behind PrimoPDF. We were featured on TechCrunch (alongside our partner OpenCandy), PrimoPDF was the feature download on the Download.com, and, most importantly of all, we released PrimoPDF 5.0.
PrimoPDF 5.0 is the most significant update to PrimoPDF since it was first released and will save you time [...]

Getting the most out of our PDF-to-Word converter

While some of you may be regular or occasional users of our free PDF to Word conversion service, in this post I’d like to concentrate on the extended PDF to Word technology in our Nitro PDF Professional product.
Our desktop product has the obvious speed benefit over the online service, but much more than that is its [...]

PDF Download 3.0 out now. Take the tour

This week in our continuing free PDF software adventures, we have a big update to our popular add-on for Web browsers. PDF Download 3.0 has a bunch of new features with the biggest one letting you view PDF files directly in your Web browser without resorting to a special PDF viewer. It works with Firefox, [...]

Advanced PDF to Excel included in the new Nitro PDF Professional 6.01

I’m pleased to announce that Nitro PDF Professional 6.01 is available immediately. All current 6.0 users can download the update now and those still considering Nitro Pro can grab the free 14-day trial. The release has addressed some bugs and improved the performance, but most exciting of all is the all-new PDF to Excel conversion [...]

Nitro PDF Professional: Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands

Following on from releasing localised versions of our popular PDF to Word and PDF to Excel conversion services, we have just done the same with  our flagship product, Nitro PDF Professional. It’s now available in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. In fact, we’ve done more than localise the software, our Nitro web site is [...]

Download PrimoPDF v5 public beta. The first free PDF creator with one-click creation

The first public beta of our all-new PrimoPDF 5 is now available for immediate download. It’s an exciting and very significant release for Primo and quite easily the most major update to Primo since it was released many years ago.

Learn more and download PrimoPDF 5 (beta)

Those of you regularly using Primo will be pleased to [...]

Using Primo from anywhere

What millions of people using PrimoPDF don’t realize is that our PDF creation capabilities are not just limited to Windows-based desktop computers. With our PrimoOnline you can, in fact, create PDF files from virtually any platform — Mac, Linux, Unix, and more — with no more than a web browser and an email address.
As the [...]

PDF to Word and PDF to Excel go native: German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch

Earlier this week we quietly launched a major update to our free PDF to Word and PDF to Excel services. Both are now available in six languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch.

The German version of PDF to Word in action
Apart from the new support for natives of those languages, nothing has changed [...]

PrimoPDF and font embedding

Font embedding means that font information is included directly within the PDF file. Embedding fonts ensures the PDF can be viewed or printed on any computer, with text appearing exactly as it does in the original file. Embedding fonts can increase PDF file size (since more information needs to be included), but can be helpful [...]