This means any PDFs you create with Nitro Pro 8 are compatible with Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Reader, and other third party PDF readers and applications. It’s easy to forget that PDF is an open standard now and no longer a proprietary format owned by Adobe. Figure B The Nitro PDF Ribbon in Word 2010 It puts options for PDF creation, security, and conversion in an easily accessible ribbon, which is what you want if you want to move PDF creation tools out of the publications department and into the PCs of more novice users. The Nitro Pro 8 ribbon that integrates with Microsoft Word when you install Nitro Pro 8 is well laid out and easy to follow. From Microsoft Word, click Nitro Pro 8 and then click Create PDF and Nitro Pro creates the PDF and opens it in the Nitro Pro 8 application for review and further modification. Create PDFs from within Microsoft OfficeĬreating and converting PDFs with Nitro Pro 8 uses a simplified process.

It has no heavy duty hardware requirements. Nitro Pro 8 runs on Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and is available in 32- and 64-bit versions. Figure A Nitro Pro 8 has a well designed user interface and integrates with Microsoft Office Nitro’s attention to usability makes me recommend Nitro Pro to more novice users who may get lost in Adobe Acrobat Professional’s complexity. Nitro Pro 8 has a familiar ribbon interface and is quite visual with tabs for common user tasks. However, in recent years Adobe Acrobat Professional has grown in features, making the interface a bit hard for more novice users, especially since there are a lot of features an everyday Acrobat user never touches. The first time I tried Nitro Pro, the user interface won me over and I came up through the technical writer ranks as a heavy Adobe Acrobat Professional user. Pricing is $119.99/single copy at launch. It’s a definite challenger to the more established and better-known Adobe Acrobat Professional. However, the newly released Nitro Pro 8 is a PDF creator and editor from Nitro that packs some powerful features in a very usable package. When I say PDF, your automatic response is probably Adobe Acrobat. Will Kelly reviews Nitro Pro 8, a third party Windows application for creating and managing PDFs. Nitro Pro 8: A feature rich and economical Adobe Acrobat alternative

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