When comparing Nitro Pro vs Foxit PhantomPDF Editor, the Slant community recommends Foxit PhantomPDF Editor for most people. In the question“What are the best PDF editors?” Foxit PhantomPDF Editor is ranked 1st while Nitro Pro is ranked 8th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Nitro Cloud simplifies sharing, collaboration and getting documents signed
Nitro offers a cloud-service, called Nitro Cloud. Nitro can upload a PDF to the Nitro Cloud and notify other people via email that they can either view or edit a PDF or have to sign a PDF. If they need to sign a document they will be able to do it from the interface that's provided by the Nitro Cloud.
Pro Clean, ribbon-like user interface
Nitro Pro has an interface that will be immediately familiar to anyone who's used Microsoft Office products.
Pro Can directly convert Outlook e-mails to PDFs via a plugin
Single messages, conversations and folders can be converted.
Pro Good support for e-signatures
Nitro allows signing a document in three ways - using a webcam, writing it by hand or adding a signature from a file. It also allows you to send out files for signing via their cloud service, Nitro Cloud.
Pro Reasonable OCR capabilities
Pro Super-simple MS Office file conversion
To convert an MS Office file to a PDF, simply drag and drop the file on the Nitro Pro shortcut.
Pro Allows combining PDFs
Pro Allows batch printing multiple files
Pro Offers a trial version
Pro Fast and lightweight
Pro Reasonable OCR capabilities
While PhatomPDF's OCR capabilities are not as powerful as those found in some competing products, it will get the job done as long as the layout elements are basic and the text has no particularly odd fonts.
Pro Clean, easy to navigate user interface
PhantomPDF has a ribbon-like interface that allows keeping it clean and intuitive.
Pro Can directly convert Outlook e-mails to PDFs
Single messages, conversations and folders can be converted.
Pro Offers a 30-day trial
Pro Supports password and certificate protection and DocuSign signatures
Pro Author of a document can allow others to leave comments
Through a feature called Shared Review, the author can share a document with others for them to leave comments. Once enabled for sharing through SharePoint, network folder or e-mail, the document can be accessed with Foxit Reader, MobilePDF Business and PhantomPDF Business.
Cons
Con Pricey, bloated addvertising for nothing, frequent crashing
Nitro Pro is available for $140.
Con Difficult to register
Very buggy, no support.
Con Incomplete MS Office document to PDF conversion
Some attributes, like form fields don't get converted.
Con Very frequent crashes
Con Not the best for this price
Con Plugins are 32-bit only and don't work with 64-bit MS Office
Plugins for Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint that allow simplified PDF creation are only available for the 32-bit versions.