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Nitro PDF Reader 2.1 Enhances Image Selection And Zoom

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Nitro PDF Reader has long been our favourite Windows PDF tool at Lifehacker AU, offering bloat-free options for both viewing and editing PDF files. Version 2.1 makes a bunch of improvements, including adding selection tools to its browser plug-in and expanding the zoom option to offer sizing between 1 per cent and 6400 per cent.


September 22, 2011
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The Best PDF Viewer/Editor For iPhone

There are plenty of PDF viewers for iOS and a handful of editors, but nothing is quite so simple-to-use and feature-rich as PDFExpert. While some of the competition comes close, it’s our pick for the best when working with PDFs on your iPhone.


September 21, 2011
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The Best PDF Viewer/Editor For Windows

The PDF viewer you choose is really dependent on what you need to do with the PDFs you download, but when it comes to viewing and editing PDFs, PDF-XChange Viewer is the best program around.


August 30, 2011
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Use PDF To Make Sure Any Employer Can Read Your Resume

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Sending a resume isn’t always the best way to score a job, but if one is required you want to make sure it gets read. Reader Owen reminds us of one of the most obvious but often neglected resume strategies: send it as a PDF so you can be sure your recipient can read it.


July 31, 2011
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Papercrop Rebuilds PDFs To Play Nice With Mobile Phones

Windows/Linux: Papercrop is a free, simple utility that automatically restructures PDF files to fit more comfortably on small smartphone and ebook reader screens.


July 13, 2011
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PdfMasher Turns PDFs Into Ereader-Friendly HTML The Right Way

Windows, Mac and Linux: PDFs are great, and while many ereaders do support them they’re just not optimised for viewing. There are also plenty of apps that convert PDF to HTML to help solve this problem, but that tends to destroy the great formatting you get with a PDF. Basically, you always have to sacrifice something. With PdfMasher, you don’t.


June 23, 2011
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Nitro PDF Updates With Browser Integration, Faster PDF Creation

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Windows: Nitro Reader has been my favourite PDF software ever since it first launched last year: it’s leaner and easier to update than Adobe Reader, doesn’t feature ads or upgrade nags, and lets you edit and annotate PDF files. Version 2 of the package, just released, dumps the “beta” tag, speeds up PDF creation and adds browser integration so you can see PDF files directly in your browser.


June 2, 2011
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EasySign Mobile Lets You Sign And Send Documents On iOS

We probably don’t have to explain why signing and faxing documents is a tedious process for people for people without a fax machine, and even for those with one, so the ability to sign digitally is really useful. EasySign Mobile is an app that takes all the work out of signing documents by letting you do it directly from any iOS device.


May 14, 2011
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Paper-To-Go For Android Scans Documents For Cloud Storage

Android: Paper-to-Go is a document scanner that uses your device’s camera and converts the image into a PDF. The app is directly tied to OfficeDrop’s cloud service, where the PDF documents get processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to make any text in them searchable.


May 11, 2011
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Adobe CreatePDF Brings PDF Creation To Android, But It Isn’t Cheap

Android: Adobe’s new CreatePDF app means Android users can finally create PDF documents on their mobile devices, but it costs $9.96 to install. The app runs on all devices running Android 2.1 or newer, and can both create new PDFs or convert other filetypes into PDFs.