April 13, 2008 – 11:30 pm
If you read documents shared via the internet, chances are they will be either Microsoft Word (DOC) or PDF files. Given that these two ubiquitous file formats are often used (and misused), it’s not surprising many people get a little confused [...]
This week is an exciting time for the Nitro team. We’ve just announced a major partnership with activePDF, developers of the leading free PDF creator, PrimoPDF. What’s made PrimoPDF so popular is the quality of the PDF files it produces, it’s ability [...]
February 22, 2008 – 2:37 pm
On our web site and in our marketing materials we’ve used words like ’streamlined’ and ‘easy-to-use’ to describe the PDF creation functionality we support in our range of products. I thought I’d try to explain what we really mean when [...]
February 21, 2008 – 10:15 am
For a bit fun I’ve recently been receiving tweets whenever anyone mentions Adobe Acrobat. Below are the three most humorous.
And yes, I know Acrobat is a competitor to our Nitro Pro and this post probably looks like a cheap shot, [...]
February 11, 2008 – 10:22 am
The two biggest things to look at when you want to reduce the size of PDF files are removing objects and downsampling/shrinking the images it contains.
1. Re-create the PDF to reduce PDF file size
A handy trick for reducing PDF file size is to [...]
February 7, 2008 – 5:50 pm
TechCrunch in particular has gone all crazy for the new online PDF viewer Issuu. It’s hard to argue with the fact that it’s raised the bar on slick presentation (it has that clean, Mac look and feel to it) but [...]
February 4, 2008 – 1:31 pm
I’ve finally found an XP replacement for the last remaining feature in Windows Vista that was stopping me from wiping my laptop clean and heading back to happy days with Windows XP.
It’s called Launchy, and is a tool that means [...]
January 29, 2008 – 12:29 pm
The Presentations functionality in Google Docs has just had an update and now includes some PDF functionality. Once you’ve created your presentation, you can export it as a PDF file — meaning you can view presentations offline, send them via [...]
January 24, 2008 – 9:49 am
For all you early adopters out there, just a quick post here to let you know our PDF Download extension for Firefox should install and work fine in the latest Firefox 3.0 beta. After installing the beta and opening it for [...]
January 23, 2008 – 4:56 pm
I like to keep an eye on new and popular PDF software and recently looked around to find articles that covered free web-based PDF software tools. In my searching I found no comprehensive or up to date list and in [...]
