Nitro PDF Professional

I have never been able to justify spending the money on Adobe products, and have always been looking for an alternative that would not break the bugdet. It is a real shame I did not find Nitro PDF sooner. Very solid product, great price and all the functions I need.

Highly recommended.

Excellent product. I have used all of the Adobe suit in my business and I would say that this matches up very well for the price. I had some trouble registering it online which is kinda normal these days, also the fact that it "stamps" pdfs with its brand name can erk sometimes. Overall though, very easy to use and a nice product for the price point.

I bought the Nitro PDF Professional 5.3.3.? version two months ago, which would not successfully edit a single page PDF Flyer with a small picture and vertical large font text on the left of page.

It also failed to convert the PDF into MS Word successfully. It got mixed with box color and the background color. It also lost the large size vertical text and the picture. The regular size text which was converted was in its graphical-text-box, difficult to edit every line that way. So I could not edit in Word and convert it back to PDF document in this scenerio. At lst I ended up buying MS Publisher to start the flyer from scratch and converted it to JPEG for printing.

Another big disappointment is the IRS Tax Forms printed by Turbo Tax to PDF Nitro lost all the lines and boxes, did not look like regular return.

Perhaps I should have bought Adobe, though expensive, but could have saved me time and frustrations.

Product installed easily and smoothly, and performs just like you'd think it should. It installed itself into my MSOffice apps so you can create PDFs of your documents and spreadsheets. I haven't used it extensively for marking up or changing PDFs, but my simple playing with the tool seems to show that editing PDFs is easy too. A good alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

As a small business owner, I am reluctant to spend money on software. I do my best to find a *free* tool as I can't justify the cost. Updating multiple desktops can be expensive! This time around, I tried out at least 6 different PDF products. A few of these products were freeware, or priced in the $30-$40 dollar range. All of these low cost solutions proved to be buggy or have annoying popups. Some others only allowed me to create PDF files (and do nothing else), and that just didn't cut it! Of course, Adobe is out of my price range. I needed something that would let me create PDf files, as well as make page content changes every now and then ...... in the end I chose Nitro PDF Professional after downloading a demo. I think it is good value for money.

Pros

Price - $99 is reasonable to pay for what you get. I can do almost everything - change text, fill out forms, password protect files, bookmarking, sticky notes. No complaints yet.

Support - I have contacted nitro pdf support on a couple of occasions with 'how do I?' type questions, and they really seem to know their stuff. They usually reply within 48 hours, and are generally helpful overall.

Cons

Not compliant with Vista 64 - I spoke to support and a compatible version should be available soon. Of course, this isn't a show stopper, but it will make a few people in my team very happy! :-)