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Customize Nitro Pro to the Way You WorkAugust 13

The Nitro PDF Professional interface is set up in a particular way by default but it’s easy to customize based on how you like to work. It’s simply a matter of familiarizing yourself with the settings and configuring Nitro Pro to your liking.

You can edit the interface preferences by heading to the Interface panel in your Preferences. Just click on the Nitro PDF button in the top left, and then click the Nitro Preferences button. The dialog below will open for you to modify.

Read on to learn about each preference.

Extended tooltips

The extended tooltips follow the same principle as the new tooltips in Microsoft Office 2007 application: explain the purpose of each tool (and if there’s room how to use it) so the user won’t need to dig through the user manual. If you’re on a very slow computer, it’s possible these may slow your performance a little, or as a power user you may find them unnecessary. Either way you can turn them off via the preferences.

Participate in developing the Nitro Pro roadmapAugust 7

When it comes to identifying features to assign to a particular release of Nitro PDF Professional, a major influence is what our customers are requesting (it’s pretty obvious hey). To date we’ve been keeping track of this via our customer support system, but it hasn’t been the most efficient way of going about it. We also wanted to encourage more of our users to suggest new features, and to make it quick, easy and fun!

So to faciliate this we’ve setup a feature suggestion and voting system at http://customerconnect.nitropdf.com/. Here you’re able to suggest a new feature, or vote for other users suggestions.

As you are typing in a new suggestion, a search will occur in the background to check you’re not doubling up on a suggestion that is already there. If it does find a result, just add your vote to the existing entry rather than duplicating it.

Further to that, the Product Management team here at Nitro will participate by adding our official response to most suggestions, and mark features that are currently being planned or are completed.

We’re really excited about the potential

Create PDF Files: eBook Versus Screen PDFsJuly 22

In addition to providing the ability to customize your PDF output settings, the free (Windows-based) PrimoPDF provides four predefined configurations based on popular PDF usages –- Screen, Print, eBook, and Prepress. Although providing eBook and Screen options might seem redundant -– after all, output from both types are optimized for viewing on an electronic display — there are some key differences summarized below.

‘eBook’ PDF files

• Creates average-sized PDF files, balancing file size with visual fidelity
• Downsamples images to 150 dpi
• Fonts are fully embedded.

Best for:

• PDFs intended for downloading from the web, in cases where readers will likely save a local copy
• PDFs that are to be viewed on a variety of display devices, including eBook readers
• Situations in which smallest file size is less important than ensuring the document precisely resembles the visual quality of the original file.

‘Screen’ PDF files

• Creates the smallest PDFs, for faster display and reduced storage requirements
• Downsamples

The First Web-to-PDF Tool for Firefox – Free and Out NowJuly 21

Our PDF Download 2.0 beta program has come to an end and we’re very pleased announce the official launch of version 2.0. To coincide with the big release, CNET has today made PDF Download 2.0 available exclusively through Download.com and made it the feature product on its homepage.

PDF Download 2.0 featured on the Download.com homepage

PDF Download made it to the feature spot on Download.com partly because of the huge number of users there are now (millions and millions) and partly because of the killer new Web-to-PDF feature that we believe is the first of its kind.

The Web-to-PDF feature in action in Firefox 3

Web to PDF

Once you’ve installed PDF Download to your Firefox or Flock browser, to start converting, all you need to do is click on the PDF Download too

Word to PDF Conversion: Making Smarter PDF FilesJuly 16

This post looks at Microsoft Word to PDF conversion, and how, by converting files from within Microsoft Word to PDF, you can create more intelligent PDF files faster. I won’t step you through how to create and secure your PDF files — it’s so obvious I don’t think you’ll have any trouble working that out — instead, I’ll explain the settings and options available to you, and how and when you might like to use them.

We’ll be looking at Microsoft Office 2007 but you can you can do pretty much everything in older versions of Office, albeit with a few extra clicks here and there — the Nitro PDF ribbon tab installed with Office 2007 is more task focused, in particular speeding up tasks involving securing PDF files.

Nitro PDF tab in Microsoft Office 2007. Includes buttons to create and then secure and/or email.

PDF conversion settings

While the options in the Create PDF and Secure PDF groups contain the creation tasks, the Settings group is where you go to set how your PDF files should be converted. The really handy thing to keep in mind is that the settings you choose here are remembered, so if you like to perform the same conversions over and over, on