What makes Nitro Pro 8 different from Adobe Acrobat reader?

A good value in a basic PDF application, Nitro Pro will suffice for an array of ordinary PDF tasks

 

Nitro Pro8's capabilities in editing existing documents are not quite as extensive as those of Acrobat XI Pro, but you can still use it to perform pretty substantive edits on documents. It can recognize the font, font size, and spacing in a document, and it will let you edit that text as if it were in word-processing program—with some limits. You can move text and image blocks around a page, resize them, and change the vertical and horizontal spacing in text, but the controls aren't quite as fine as in Acrobat XI Pro

 

Nitro Pro8 has no provision for sending out documents for signatures or for managing them, as the EchoSign website that is somewhat integrated into Acrobat XI Pro does. However, because EchoSign.com does not require that you use Acrobat XI Pro, you could use Nitro Pro8 with it too—or you could use Nitro Pro8 with another digital signature website, such as Docracy.com, DocuSign.com, or SignNow.com.

 

 

Nitro Pro8 lacks some of the newest features in the Acrobat XI Pro, which was released shortly after Nitro Pro8. While Nitro Pro8 can create and edit PDF forms, it has no mechanism for creating Web-based forms, as Acrobat XI Pro's companion application, FormsCentral, does. Nitro Pro8 does not yet have the ability to scan a PDF and suggest form fields, as Acrobat XI Pro does.

One of Nitro Pro8's minor new features is that automatically saves your open documents every10 minutes (you can change the duration, if you like). Of course, that's only for documents in Nitro Pro8; if you've used the program to convert to other application types, then you'll have to rely on those applications' auto-save functions. Nitro claims that the application creates smaller files than Nitro Pro7 does, but I couldn't test that claim.

 

Nitro Pro8 lacks many of the most innovative features that Acrobat XI Pro has, even if you don't consider things like online digital signature management and Web-based forms creation, which are features you can access whether you own either application (or neither of them). But for a basic PDF application, Nitro Pro8 does many things well

 

Nitro Pro 8 lacks some of the newest features in the $449 Acrobat XI Pro, which was released shortly after Nitro Pro 8.
Nitro Pro 8 can create and edit PDF forms, it has no mechanism for creating Web-based forms, as Acrobat XI Pro's companion application, FormsCentral, does.
Nitro Pro 8 does not yet have the ability to scan a PDF and suggest form fields, as Acrobat XI Pro does.
Nitro Pro 8's digital signature features are basic PDF ones: You can add a "QuickSign," which is an image of your signature that you can password-protect; or you can add a digital signature, which entails creating a digital ID, which is an encrypted, key-based file you can generate within the application with Windows' help Nitro Pro 8 lacks many of the most innovative features that Acrobat XI Pro has, even if you don't consider things like online digital signature management and Web-based forms creation, which are features you can access whether you own either application (or neither of them).
But for a basic PDF application, Nitro Pro 8 does many things well, and it does them at a reasonable price.

The good: Nitro Pro8 is heavy on features, has impressive performance, and is easy to use.
  The bad: Cannot add multimedia elements such as audio and video clips to PDF files.
The bottom line: Nitro Pro8 is a feature-packed PDF program with impressive performance and a dead-simple interface.
As for the guts of the program, Nitro Pro offers all of the functionality you would expect from a complete PDF package.
It makes it incredibly easy to create, convert, insert, edit, review, secure, sign, and even add redactions to PDF files.
Recent updates to Nitro added even more conveniences, like expanded Asian language support, more streamlined conversions to Office formats, and expanded support for third-party applications like Evernote.
 

One of the biggest difference is that NitroPDF Pro gives you ribbon options in Office2010 and above. At the same time it gives you greater flexibility with signing documents.