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New PrimoPDF API – Print to PDF from Your Application, Seamlessly

Our new PrimoPDF Application Programmatic Interface (API) allows you to harness the power of Primo in your applications, without the need for a separate installation or any form of manual user-intervention.

Silent installer. Bundle PrimoPDF with your application, seamlessly and silently.
Font support. The API offers full support for double-byte character and non-TrueType fonts.
Full access. You get [...]

PrimoPDF Has an All-New Home

As you’ve likely noticed, we gave the world’s #1 free PDF creator an all-new home last week. We like it, and we hope you do too! The interface has changed dramatically, but the simple, powerful usability of PrimoPDF remains.
Connect, contribute, and get the help you need with PrimoPDF

When we built the new [...]

Summarizing and Printing PDF Comments, While Saving Paper

Nitro PDF Professional 6 includes a powerful new way to quickly summarize all of the comments in your PDF documents. The resultant summary allows you to easily view all of the comments alongside the document’s contents – and, if you’re so inclined, print out the summaries for paper-based viewing.
Today we’ll take a first-look at this [...]

Creating a better PDF viewing experience

The onscreen PDF viewing experience has always had a mixed reputation. To me, one important and often-overlooked factor contributing to this negative perception stems from the variety of ways in which a PDF file can be displayed.
Unfortunately, with this flexibility comes an inevitable inconsistency, which can’t help but increase the possibility of a negative user-experience.
The [...]

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 [...]