Nitro releases free PDF reader

Jake Widman
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 09:56

Business IT - Technology

Nitro PDF Software has added a full-featured program for reading, annotating, and manipulating PDF files to its roster of PDF software.

Founded in Melbourne and now based in San Francisco, Nitro has been in the PDF software game for ten years, starting as a developer of Adobe Acrobat plugins.

In 2005, the company launched its flagship Nitro PDF Professional as an alternative to Adobe's PDF creation products. Now it has added a free PDF reader to take on the "bloated" (Nitro's word) Acrobat Reader.

Nitro PDF Reader is designed to look familiar to Microsoft Office users out of the box, with an interface dominated by an Office-like Ribbon. The company calls it "the missing PDF component of the MS Office Suite."

The Ribbon contains a Files tab, a Tasks tab, and a Help tab. The Tasks tab holds the tools for handling PDF files, such as zooming, rotating, selecting, highlighting, extracting text or images, and so on.

The Stamp Signature tool lets you choose from one or more scanned versions of your signature and place it onto a PDF page. The signature even has a transparent background, so it won't obscure the "sign here" line in the original.

For more PDF features, see Page 2.