Nitro PDF Professional V6 Review

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(More customer reviews)The best of the bunch I tested for home office use.
I use PDF creation way more than I thought I would. I hardly ever print out web pages anymore, I've possibly saved enough on toner to pay for the program, if not, I will.
I purchased Nitro PDF Pro 6 after I tested the trial version. I also sampled trial versions of Adobe Acrobat Pro, ABBYY PDF Transformer, PDFill, gDoc Fusion (a unique, very cool application) and Nitro PDF Express. I came to the conclusion that THERE IS NO PERFECT PDF PROGRAM, and suggest you make your choice on how much you will use the program.
Adobe Acrobat Pro is the original. It is the largest, most complete, most complex, and most expensive. It is fairly intuitive if you have used a lot of software. Of all the programs I tested, it would require the most time and effort to become a power user. It is the Big Boy PDF program, but it didn't convert to Word any better than Nitro PDF Pro 6. Actually, none of the programs convert with 100% accuracy. You can get Adobe Acrobat Pro for $125 at a number of sites. If you want the biggest tool box spend the additional $50 and get this one.
ABBYY PDF Transformer works and it come with an add on screen capture utility that allows you make a PDF file of whatever is displayed on your monitor. I thought less of its user interface than the others, I wasn't able to just jump right in and start using it. My biggest dislike is that the program's menus that plug into Word and Excel float on the desktop rather than on Word or Excel's tool bars. I did not check to see if there is a way anchor it.
PDFill did not interest me at all. I didn't test it enough to add comments.
gDoc Fusion is very cool. It is unique in that its interface is like touch technology, and it will work with touch screen monitors. I think it did the poorest job of converting PDF to Word. To be fair, though, it worked OK at converting PDFs generated by gDocs to Word. It is exceptionally good for scrolling through the pages of documents; better than all the rest. Check this one out just see how it works. Its price is comparable and there is a home user license option.
As a home office user, Nitro PDF Pro 6 is the program I liked the best. The interface uses ribbon menus similar to Office 2007. I was able to jump in and start using it. It opens with a tutorial asking what you want to do, create something new, convert something, edit something, combine or split something, sign or add security, or review, etc. Then it opens the instruction on how to do the chosen task. It won't take long for you to turn that opening tutorial off; the program is easy to learn. It converts as well as Adobe Acrobat Pro; though in all it is not as big and powerful (the program is about 1/10th the size). Regarding the files size issue mentioned in other reviews, Nitro Pro PDF6 gives you options. I converted a 98KB Word document using the Web Quality setting, the PDF file was a smaller 35KB. Using the Office Quality setting, the PDF file was a smaller 34KB. Using the Print Quality, the PDF file was a much larger 1.14MB. Nitro PDF Express does the creation and converting as well as the Pro version, but the interface I thought was much weaker. I searched and found a coupon and purchased a license for the Pro version for just $25 more than the Express version. I think the Pro version worth the extra expense.
My primary interest in a PDF application was to get my own documents onto my Kindle (to do so, set the document's font to a 20-24 pt font size and convert it to PDF/A, then, with the Kindle connected to a USB port, copy the PDF document to the Kindle's Document folder), but I have found I use it for saving info from web pages most of all.
UPDATE: Nitro has released a free update to v 6.1.2.1 which has significantly increased the speed of the program. It is noticably faster now.

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