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Verdict

All the core benefits of office-based PDF handling at a fraction of the price of Acrobat Standard

Review Date: 3 Jul 2009

Reviewed By: Tom Arah

Price when reviewed: £54 (£62 inc VAT)

Overall Rating

Features & Design
3 stars out of 6

Value for Money
6 stars out of 6

Ease of Use
5 stars out of 6

PCPRO Recommended

Nitro PDF Professional provides all the core power the average office worker is likely to need; but it isn't state-of-the-art power. Naturally, you're not getting the advanced features such as colour separation and 3D handling that Adobe's Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended provide. More significantly, Nitro PDF Professional doesn't offer all the power of Acrobat Standard such as built-in OCR, and integration with Outlook and Internet Explorer for email and web archiving.

Moreover, through Acrobat 9's built-in Flash support and its integration with the centrally hosted Acrobat.com, Adobe is currently in the process of reinventing PDF to bring the format into the 21st century. In fact, Adobe's new focus on live documents, live collaboration and online access - the traditional Nitro PDF approach based on static documents exchanged via email round-robin - looks increasingly old-fashioned.

Nitro PDF Professional doesn't offer leading-edge, let alone bleeding-edge support for PDF, but for the corporate market that's likely to be seen as a major plus rather than a negative. And for its target audience Nitro PDF Professional offers the most important selling point of all: value. With a price of $99, Nitro PDF Professional is designed to offer 90% of Acrobat Standard's functionality at a third of its $299 price. For UK users, Adobe's rip-off policy, with prices approaching parity between sterling and the dollar, means that the gap is even wider. In fact, based on current figures, UK users can buy more than four copies of Nitro PDF Professional for every copy of Acrobat Standard.

Author: Tom Arah

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User comments

Are there any pdf programmes that offer the harvesting to database utility that Acrobat Pro does, or is this a proprietary function for Adobe?

By Phoomeister on 13 Aug 2009

Sorry, should have been clearer, I mean from a form on an editablle pdf.

By Phoomeister on 13 Aug 2009

Linda

I purchased this online . However when I tried to download it my internet security, Kaspersky, detected a Trojan and it proved impossible to override. I emailed Nitro PDF support (there is no contact telephone number) but have had no response. I have now received the CD and again my internet security detected a Trojan when I tried to download the Pro version. So be warned, I would not buy this again and at the moment I have paid £100 for useless software

By sutherll1 on 29 Oct 2009

Nitro Professional 6 is an absolute rip off

Nitro produces extremely large PDF files, crashes frequently, enlarges PDF files that it is supposed to edit, and so on.
The Nitro people seem to be only good at advertising their product. They simply raise people's expectations but then their product just does not deliver ...

By Paul_G on 6 May 2010

@Linda & Paul_G

I recommend you contact their support team for further assistance.

http://www.nitropdf.com/professional/support/index
.asp

By bpham on 28 Jun 2010

Has this been fixed?

Does anybody know if the product/ supplier has been fixed of the above problems?

By johncooky on 20 May 2011

Nitro 6 _Still a Poor Relative

I too succumbed to the on disc trial Jan 2012; must be an age thing!
Had forgotten - trialed this product couple of years ago and dismissed as not quite fit for purpose...back to Adobe.
The reality for the Nitro people is a second grade product competing against the might of Adobe...guess what, it's a struggle.
Hence they resort to over promising and under delivering.
That said for many, if your requirements are basic, this product is fine [assuming you accept occasional crashes and glitches].
Nitro 7 may have dealt with these issues, however, same old, same old; you probably get what you pay for.
Cheers, Trio [getting more cynical as the years go by]

By TrioJay on 9 Jan 2012

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