Category Archives: news

Major improvements for PDF to Word and PDF to Excel online conversion services

As you may already know, we’ve been doing some behind-the-scenes work to the conversion infrastructure for our popular PDF to Word and PDF to Excel sites, to handle the ever-growing number of conversion requests we’ve been receiving – currently, around a million conversions per month!
Today, we’re going to go into a little detail as to exactly what we’ve [...]

Optimizing your PDF files for the Web

When we create and distribute PDF files, it’s important to consider where the document is going to end up. With the proliferation of online content, there are more and more PDF files scattered all over the Web. Whether it’s bloated, print-quality documents,  or incorrect (even absent) metadata, taking the wrong steps when creating your PDF [...]

Now available: Nitro PDF Professional OCR

Earlier this month, we announced the release of Nitro PDF Professional OCR, the latest iteration of Nitro Pro, now available with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). With the same award-winning feature-set that earned Nitro Pro multiple awards, including ‘Product of the Year’ from PC User™, Nitro Pro OCR gives you the ability to create editable, searchable [...]

Love Nitro PDF Software? Become an affiliate and put our software to work for you

If you haven’t already heard, Nitro PDF Software has an easy–to-use and rewarding Affiliate Program, open to anyone who’d like to sell our award-winning software. It’s completely free to join, and affiliates earn a minimum of 30% of the revenue generated from the products they sell.Â
When you register as an affiliate, Nitro will supply you [...]

Now Available: Nitro PDF Express v2

In December, we released the long-awaited, major update for Nitro PDF Express – the streamlined, lightweight, and low-cost way to create and convert PDF files. With all the creation and conversion features of the award-winning Nitro PDF Professional, Nitro Express utilizes all-new interface, and contains a host of improvements and additions to make the PDF essentials [...]

Using Nitro Pro to review, annotate, and collaborate on web-based content

Nitro PDF Professional offers a range of ways with which to capture information – from nearly any source – and convert it to PDF for annotation and distribution. Recently, we covered how to share charts from Microsoft® Excel. Now, we’re going to show you how to get your web-based content into a PDF file.
Nitro Pro’s [...]

Creating indexable, searchable files with PrimoPDF

As we showed in our last tip, you can easily control the way in which your document is accessed, viewed, and edited by utilizing PrimoPDF’s security settings. Now, we’re going to quickly demonstrate how you can add key information in the form of metadata – such as title, author, and keywords…
Many document management systems that [...]

Securing PDF files with PrimoPDF

PrimoPDF is a great free way to convert nearly any file to PDF for safe, secure, and easy distribution. Many people don’t realize that you can do much more than simply create the PDF file, including adding passwords and restricting permissions to edit, view, print and more…
When you open PrimoPDF, there are two options you [...]

Sharing charts and graphs from Microsoft® Excel

Most of us, in some way or another, tend to use Excel for data collation and visualization. Why do we want to visualize data? Aside from a desire to present it in a meaningful fashion, we generally graph or chart a series of data with a view to distributing it to a wider audience – [...]

PDF as a green technology

PDF is often touted as what’s increasingly known as ‘green technology’ – one that helps us reduce our carbon footprint, and – in the case of the ‘paperless office’ – reduce a financial burden. For most businesses, going completely paperless is definitely a challenge, but with desktop PDF software, we can certainly work towards it.
It’s [...]