

This may still frustrate some users, but it feels slick and connected to Microsoft Office. Nitro sports a ribbon-style interface borrowed from the previously released paid version of Nitro. The highlight tool will switch automatically from box highlighting to character highlighting, depending on whether you start highlighting in an empty space or over some text. The drag-and-drop took a few seconds to begin once initiated, but overall converting a four-page Word document took about 2 minutes. The search utility isn't bad, although it would be nice to see Windows 7-style federated in-document searching.

This may sound like standard PDF boilerplate, but it's important to emphasize given that they're all free here, and they all work well. Users can comment on PDFs using notes and text markup, fill out forms, print to PDF, or create one by dragging an existing document into Nitro, share and comment with others, and securely sign a document. To put it mildly, the feature set is robust. Nitro has turned the free PDF alternative business model on its ear by providing you with a smart selection of watermark-free editing, drag-and-drop PDF creation, and tabbed PDF reading.

That gives it a long leg up, not only on other free readers but also ad-hoc collections of PDF freeware that manage to do the same basic job as Nitro Reader, but without any kind of software compatibility or interoperability.Nitro's new free PDF reader takes the key features that you want in a PDF reader, a familiar interface, and smooth functionality and combines them into an eminently usable program that doesn't get in between you and your documents. Nitro Reader is free, installs in one go, and does more than similar freeware, starting with the biggie - creating PDFs. Some free tools will match Nitro feature-for-feature in future releases. ConsĬompetition: Nitro faces stiff competition from other popular PDF readers, offering their own combination of features and advantages. QuickSign: A single click of Nitro Reader's QuickSign feature will stamp documents with your handwritten signature and return them to sender. Signature profiles: You can create multiple password-protected digital signatures for specific needs. Collaborate: Nitro Reader's collaboration tools include sticky notes, text markups with comments, and the ability to summarize and sort comments.
