Posted by LisaWI on 5/31/11 7:21pm
Msg #384806

Nitro Primo PDF

After losing my other computer, I am having fun downloading and replacing everything I had before (haha). One of them being the primo pdf. Only its changed and comes with a Nitro pdf reader, which Im not sure if this is a good thing or not. For my docs and working with them, it might be useful, but for the docs that comps send me, Im not so sure.

Any reviews out there if anyone uses this program? I really liked the old primo pdf, and this one is quite different.

Reply by PAW on 5/31/11 8:10pm
Msg #384811

The free version is still called PrimoPDF (http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx). Nitro is their $$ version.

Reply by LisaWI on 5/31/11 8:21pm
Msg #384812

Hi Paul, I actually went to your website to get this. It sent me to CNET and this is the download I ended up with.

I have the primo pdf and the nitro reader. I dont mind it, like I said for the docs I am creating and maybe working with I can see this as an asset. But the program takes over all of your previous adobe pdf's and converts them to the nitro pdfs. When you open them, they are opened with the nitro pdf program, not adobe.

There is no option in Adobe that I can find to make it the default reader. But there is an option in the Nitro Reader to make it the default reader. And I cant find out how to reverse it.

It looks like I could also just remove the Nitro reader from my add and remove programs. I would like to keep the Nitro Reader, but not have it as my default reader.

Reply by parkerc/ME on 5/31/11 10:29pm
Msg #384832

You can set your Adobe to be the default over Nitro or Primo. Just go into Adobe Reader to do that.

Reply by parkerc/ME on 5/31/11 10:35pm
Msg #384833

In Adobe Reader X, Go into Edit, Preferences, General, and click on "select default PDF Handler", then select Adobe Reader X from the drop-down. And make sure that in Primo or Nitro you haven't select it to be your default reader.

Reply by LisaWI on 6/1/11 8:58am
Msg #384840

Re: Nitro Primo PDF-Parker

I am not using adobe x. Maybe that is something new with the adobe reader, but the option does not exist in adobe 9. If it does, it is hidden or I need better glasses

Reply by parkerc/ME on 6/1/11 7:04pm
Msg #384906

Re: Nitro Primo PDF-Parker

It's somewhere there in Adobe 9 because that's where I had to set the default when I first loaded Nitro (it was the free Beta version of Nitro). Can't remember where it was located, just check each of the menu items.

Reply by sealed/CA on 5/31/11 8:27pm
Msg #384813

The same thing happened to me Lisa. I could not find any way to make Adobe my default reader. I ended up just deleting my adobe reader and reinstalling it. Works great now.
Hope this helps.

Reply by LisaWI on 5/31/11 8:31pm
Msg #384815

So when you reinstalled the adobe, it automatically converted all of your pdfs back to the adobe version? Did you have to uninstall the nitro reader as well?

Reply by sealed/CA on 5/31/11 8:39pm
Msg #384817

If I remember correctly, all my PDF documents automatically opened with Adobe when I reinstalled it. I guess it became the default automatically. I did not have to uninstall the Nitro reader.

Reply by LisaWI on 5/31/11 8:41pm
Msg #384818

Thx Elizabeth, I'll give that a shot

Reply by sealed/CA on 5/31/11 9:19pm
Msg #384828

Great! Let us know if it works for you.

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/31/11 8:59pm
Msg #384823

Re: Nitro Primo PDF - I've used it and I've been

pleased with it. It's not very expensive. Can't remember.

But, it works well. I like to be able to "write" on the pdf's and you can with Nitro. I am pleased.

Reply by LisaWI on 5/31/11 9:04pm
Msg #384825

Re: Nitro Primo PDF - I've used it and I've been

As long as it doesnt interfere with the docs that comps send me, it will be ok. Thats what Im concerned about.

Reply by PAW on 6/1/11 8:37am
Msg #384838

Re: Nitro Primo PDF - I've used it and I've been

Nothing is changed in the PDF file itself. Only the "default application" used to open a file with a PDF extension is changed. So nothing will happen to the files sent to you from title companies or any other place.

By now, I'm sure you have returned the "default" to be Adobe Reader. By default, Adobe Reader changes the "default application" to itself during installation. I think Primo and Nitro did too. (There may have been a screen during the installation asking if you wanted Primo/Nitro to be the default reader/editor. If so, it would be checked during installation, so if you accepted the quick or standard installation instead of the custom installation, it set the default to itself too.)

Reply by LisaWI on 6/1/11 9:01am
Msg #384842

Thanx Everyone

Im going to give nitro a whirl. Now at least if I dont like it or if I have problems, I have alternatives that came from non other than the best notary village out there

You all are awesome

Reply by parkerc/ME on 6/1/11 7:07pm
Msg #384907

Re: Nitro Primo PDF - I've used it and I've been

I had initially used the free Nitro version (I think it was a beta version). But I found that it reduced my margins somewhat when I converted an MSWord doc to .pdf. Then someone tipped me off about Primo, so I am now using that, which does not reduce my original documents' margins. They're all from the same source but there was a definite difference.