User Guide
Nitro PDF Pro for Windows
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Compatibility with Other Applications
PDF (or Portable Document Format) is the most widely used standard for online distribution and exchange of digital documents across both personal and professional environments. Here are some of the many advantages of using PDF documents:
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Compare PDF Files
Reporting all the modifications made to a document is a difficult task if changes weren’t tracked during the editing process. Comparing the new document with its original version is the easiest way to pinpoint every single change that was made. To compare two versions of the same document, convert them to PDF in Nitro Pro and use the Compare tool to identify any differences in text, images, and even annotations.
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Comments Pane
The Comments Pane gives you a centralized place to see and organize all of your annotations. It lists each comment, its type, reviewer name, date added, and the text included in any pop-up notes and text boxes.
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Merge files to PDF
Nitro Pro supports combining PDF files and any other file type you provide, as long as you have an application installed on your computer that can view that file type. Nitro Pro will convert other types of files to PDF in the background, and then combine together every PDF file in the order specified.
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Combine files and assemble pages - Table of Contents
PDF files provide an easy way to package up a collection of different files from a variety of sources, and to share them accurately and reliably. With Nitro Pro, you can combine reports, spreadsheets, presentations, and more, all in a single task.
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Combine comments from multiple files
When you receive feedback from multiple participants, each in a different copy of the original PDF file, you may find it helpful to merge these comments into a single PDF file for easier review.
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Color object
An object that can be used when setting a color in other JavaScript methods and properties.
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Change Image Color Space
With Nitro Pro, you can update the color space of each image individually.
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Change the page view
On the Page Controls bar at the bottom-right of the screen, select one of the following options:
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Certify PDF Files
As the author of a document, when you certify it, you attest to its contents and control what (if anything) can be done to it while retaining its certified status. If changes occur to the document that you have not permitted, then the document is invalidated and the certification is revoked.
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Certificate security
Digital IDs let you encrypt files that can only be opened and used by people who have exchanged certificates. Certificate-based security has many advantages over password-based security: documents can be opened without the need to remember passwords, Digital IDs cannot be shared or copied easily, the one document can contain different security settings for each recipient of a file. For example, you may grant one person editing and printing privileges, while another is limited to just viewing the file.
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Calculate Field Data
Nitro Pro supports field calculations using several methods. The built-in calculation formulas are an easy means for creating simple, and quite restricted, field calculations. You can also use Simplified Field Notation and JavaScripts, although these methods are much more sophisticated and require some programming knowledge. If your calculation needs are limited to summing or averaging data, you can use the built-in formulas without having to worry about programming.
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Bates Numbers in a PDF
Bates numbering is useful in legal and other fields that need all pages in a document collection to be labelled, accounted for, and easy to locate. The Bates numbering tool allows you to add a unique number to each page. You can start the numbering at any point and, when processing more than one document, continue the numbering across the documents.
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Batch Processing PDF Files
Repetitive tasks involving one or several documents can be automated with the Batch Processing tool.
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Automatic page number links
The Create Page Links tool lets you automatically turn all numbers on an area of the page into active hyperlinks that will link each number to the corresponding page in the document. It’s ideal for making sections of documents, like the table of contents and index, more intelligent and easier to use. It’s simply a matter of selecting the part of the page or range of pages you want to scan, and then running the tool to turn them into active links .
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Attach a File in a PDF
In addition to containing text and graphics, PDF files can contain entire files inside them as attachments. This makes exchanging sets of documents easier and more reliable. The Attachments pane provides you a central place to view, insert, delete, and export attachments.
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Attach Files as Annotations in a PDF
Just like attaching a paper file to another with a paperclip, the Attach File annotation tool enables you to attach electronic files to your PDFs files. Annotation attachments appear as a paperclip icon on the PDF page; reviewers can double-click the icon to open the file. You can view annotation attachments in the Commenting pane and the Attachments pane.
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Assemble & Moving Pages in a PDF
The Pages pane can make rearranging the pages of your PDF documents much easier. When expanded, the pages pane is located along the left side of the application window, displaying thumbnail-sized versions of each page so you can quickly identify and select the pages you want to edit.
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Arrange Images in a PDF
The image arranging tools let you move images in front and behind other objects on the page, flip or mirror, and rotate them.
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Appendix
The following topics provide background information for Nitro Pro, and describe technical matters related to PDF files:
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