Following this thread, I decided to test NitroPDF with a known problem
file for my Acrobat 5 reader (on XP). The file is a Google digitized
19th century transcript of a 1623 Herald's Visitation (Google>Book
Search>argument: "visitation of the county of somerset in the year 1623").
The file reads fine on Google, if slowly, but downloaded as a .pdf
brought a warning from Acrobat 5 of a loading problem (9). When viewed,
many pages were blank. NitroPDF reported no problem and all data was
present, but some pages were apparently scanned in color, others either
scanned to single bit (i.e. black and white text) or rendered that way
by NitroPDF.
Disturbing, a click on the install icon of the downloaded NitroPDF
Professional free trial brought an immediate attempt to communicate to
the Internet. That was trapped by my firewall (Comodo), and I denied
access, after which the install wizard started. Install was rather slow
and seemed to do a lot with the Registry. When it finished, my default
browser (previously shut down) was invoked with connection to a NitroPDF
web page. My Firewall should have trapped and reported that - but did
not. After rebooting the following morning, I attempted to view a .pdf
file by clicking it and Acrobat 5 was invoked but with the warning that
.pdf files could not be viewed from within my browser (Firefox 2)
because of a configuration problem, with an offer to correct it, which I
permitted.
My impression is that NitroPDF is a product of some really sharp
programming and likely unusually capable as a reader. The features
don't seem to offer direct solutions to the problems recently discussed
with Legacy exports, but the editing tools available plus the ability to
export to Microsoft Word format (and presumably re-import) might
aggregate to what's wanted. That said, NitroPDF isn't software I want
on my computer. I don't trust code that tries to drill through my
firewall and certainly don't anything which succeeds in doing so without
leaving fingerprints. Nor do I like my browser being reconfigured. And
as a final note - NitroPDF does not come with an uninstaller...
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