Microsoft Word (DOC) and PDF Files Compared

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 [...]

By Richard Crocker | Posted in knowledge, software | Comments (0)

6 Ways to Improve Your PDF Files for the Web

March 17, 2008 – 10:01 am

PDF has a reputation — often well-deserved — for being cumbersome to view and navigate online, but it doesn’t have to be that way on your site. With a little work and the right tools (Nitro PDF Professional, for example), [...]

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5 Tricks to Reduce PDF File Size

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 [...]

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Free online web services to create, view, share and edit PDF files

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 [...]

By Richard Crocker | Posted in PDF Download, knowledge, software | Comments (7)

Nitro PDF Professional 5.3 now ready for free download

October 18, 2007 – 6:11 pm

Nitro PDF Professional 5.3 has been out a few days now and the feedback has been great. Thanks!
The Nitro PDF team spent many long days and nights working through the bugs and performance-improvement requests we received from users, and thanks [...]

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