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I've been looking into alternative PDF creation software such as NitroPDF. It seems like a bargain at $99 a license compared to $300 for Acrobat.

The feature comparison page gives a list of things that Nitro does do, but I'd like to know if there are any features it is missing that Acrobat has.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not looking for a list of alternatives, I'm specifically interested in knowing if there are any features from Acrobat that are not present in Nitro.

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From Nitro PDF Professional 6 Review

Adobe's Acrobat is a polished product with several features not offered by Nitro PDF Professional (including the ability to create and display collections of related PDF content in Portfolios, redaction tools to conceal sensitive material within PDFs, and multimedia and 3D support).

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I know my favorite thing about Acrobat 9 is that you can drag and drop pages from one document into the other. I don't believe that this is possible in Nitro.

I believe that both products offer a 30day trail. Give them a spin and see what works for you.

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$99 is not a bargain when you consider the other alternatives.

I'd learn to use latex http://www.latex-project.org/ and get the texlive distribution http://www.tug.org/texlive/

Additionally, plenty of software has the ability to export to PDF (google docs, open office), and there are tools to merge pdfs together http://www.mergepdf.net/ (as well as command line utilities such as joinPDF)

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I wasn't asking for other alternatives, I wanted to know if there were limitations of Nitro compared to Acrobat. – Soviut Nov 5 '10 at 16:00
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For creation, free printer drivers for Windows abound:

www.freepdfcreator.org from Solid Documents

www.primopdf.com from Nitro

www.cutepdf.com

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again, I'm aware of the plethora of alternatives, I'm looking for specific information on Nitro itself since it has all the merging, conversion to word, annotation and scanning features of Acrobat, but also has OCR and image editing. What I'm wondering is if there are features I'd miss from Acrobat if it got it. – Soviut Nov 5 '10 at 16:04
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Computerworld just published this review of PDF editors

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9192927/Acrobat_and_its_alternatives_4_ways_to_edit_PDFs_

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