If you want to add text-say, to fill out a form, where alignment is often difficult in a PDF-you go to the Home menu, click the Type Text menu, then click on the document, using the new guides to help you line things up.

However, you have to be aware of which editing mode you’re using: If you’re trying to edit the text in an existing document-for example, to change a person’s name-then you need to go to the Edit menu, click Edit, double-click in a paragraph, then change the text. Importing an Excel spreadsheet into Nitro Pro 8 works well, with proper formatting (but no formulas, of course). Outlined boxes appear as you move your mouse among elements, and your cursor will snap to the edges of some of the elements.

When typing text into a PDF using Nitro Pro 8’s Type Text tool, you’ll now see helpful guides to help you align the text with other elements-text or images-on the page. However, because does not require that you use Acrobat XI Pro, you could use Nitro Pro 8 with it too-or you could use Nitro Pro 8 with another digital signature website, such as, , or. Nitro Pro 8 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. I think some people may get these two types confused, but they’re pretty easy to set up. Likewise, 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’s attractive, basic interface puts most controls in a ribbon bar. (You could argue that you don’t need Acrobat XI Pro for that either you can either download FormsCentral or simply use its website skip the PDF software entirely.) Nitro Pro 8 does not yet have the ability to scan a PDF and suggest form fields, as Acrobat XI Pro does. While 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 lacks some of the newest features in the $449 Acrobat XI Pro, which was released shortly after Nitro Pro 8. Many PDF applications have challenged the champion is Nitro Pro 8 the one to pull off the upset? It depends on what the audience wants to see and to pay for: If they’re looking for an application that can get most of their PDF-related tasks done without many extras, then Nitro Pro 8 is the one to root for. In the other corner hulks Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, the reigning champion of PDF. And now in this corner, the scrappy competitor: Nitro Pro 8, a PDF application that costs just $120.

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