Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop capably creates and converts PDF documents, but it doesn't come close to offering the enterprise-class functionality available in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.Organizations that don't need workflow capabilities, but are looking for an application that will let their users create PDFs, will find that Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop does the job.
Organizations that don't need workflow capabilities, but are looking for an application that will let their users create PDFs, will find that Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop does the job.
Nitro PDF Desktop, which shipped last month, includes a decent set of features. Among them are the ability to edit PDFs directly and to retain formatting when copying and pasting from Microsoft Corp.'s Word into a PDF. Overall, Nitro PDF Desktop does not have as many features as ScanSoft's PDF Converter Professional 3. Only power users are likely to notice the difference, but enterprises will get more bang for their buck with PDF Converter Professional.
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Nitro PDF Desktop is not as intuitive as PDF Converter Professional 3, either, but it makes up for that in slickness.
When creating simple PDFs and using Nitro PDF Desktop's editing tools, few users will probably notice they are not using Acrobat. In tests, we were able to create PDFs from Microsoft Office applications with no problems and could use Nitro PDF Desktop to easily make comments, fill out forms and add watermarks.
It should be noted that while Nitro PDF Desktop offers all the features basic users are looking for, power users accustomed to the workflow management power of Acrobat Professional will find the product lacking. Nitro PDF Desktop stacks up best against Acrobat Standard.
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