“If you’ve ever had any experience trying to convert things from PDF to other formats, you’d know how difficult it is to actually get a good result,” he said. New features in version 8 include a “PDF-to-Excel” converter that takes data out of a PDF and allows the user to drop it into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, preserving the formatting of the tables, rows, cells and columns, said Chandler. “Our goal, together with Lenovo, is essentially to educate their users during the trial period to make sure they get a look under the hood, that they have access and try using all the features of Nitro Pro with, hopefully, a decision to continue to use the Pro version,” said O’Reilly.

If users choose not to buy Nitro Pro by the end of the trial, they can still use the basic Nitro Reader free. New users will get a free 60-day trial of Nitro Pro that’s longer than the typical 14-day trial for software downloaded from Nitro’s Web site. Lenovo PCs will come with Nitro Pro 8 preinstalled, which is more than just a PDF reader app, but a whole suite of apps for creating and managing PDFs, said Gina O’Reilly, chief operating officer of Nitro.

“We basically created the Acrobat alternative category.”

“It’s testament to how robust the product is now,” that Lenovo chose Nitro over Adobe, said Sam Chandler, founder and CEO of Nitro. Nitro, which has positioned itself as an alternative to PDF software industry leader Adobe, is introducing Nitro Pro 8 with new features and a new market win as the default PDF reader installed on Lenovo PCs.

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