Overall Satisfaction with Nitro Productivity Suite
As a freelance automotive writer, most of my research and writing is done in Microsoft Office, but sometimes I need to interact with PDF files beyond simply reading them. I use Nitro PDF Pro to extract and remix PDFs, as well as publish eBooks and documents I don't want others to edit. Nitro PDF integrates well with Office as an export plugin, and also supports PDF conversion to Excel and Word formats.
- MS Word Export-to-PDF Plugin can export one page or a hundred pages flawlessly.
- One-Time Purchase is better for my business' bottom line.
- Complete PDF suite allows me to do everything I need with PDF files.
- Buying current version included next major upgrade (When Nitro PDF 11 went to Nitro PDF 12)
- Familiar MS Office-style UI.
- OCR doesn't work very well (honestly, does ANY optical character recognition work?)
- Conversion sometimes results in artifacts and corrupted sections, but on the whole is pretty good.
- Nitro PDF 11 wasn't very stable, but that seems to have been fixed with Nitro PDF 12
- Being able to publish beautiful PDF eBooks has given my freelance automotive writing business the edge needed to stand out from the competition.
- Currently, Nitro is a one-time-purchase software package, better for my business needs than subscription models offered by the competition.
I downloaded the trial versions of both Acrobat DC and Nitro PDF, and found Nitro to be superior in price, while Acrobat was superior in software features and user-friendliness. I knew I would be using Nitro for basic publishing and editing of PDFs, which both programs do well, but I couldn't justify the extra expense for Acrobat for features I wouldn't use and a slight increase in user-friendliness.