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Reported that the number of PDF files tainted with malicious code skyrocketed inĢ009 to represent 49 percent of Web-based attacks, topping the category. More secure than Adobe software at a time when booby-trapping PDF files have No love for Adobe Reader we want people to have a lot of love for NitroĪvailable for download online at. Lorenz, who worked at Adobe for a decade before becoming Nitro chief productĪdobe hasn't done it just doesn't make sense. The product to how people have evolved in working with PDF files,' said Lonn Versions of PDF software that allow for document creation. Restriction that can foil efforts such as filling in emailed or online PDF Reader lets people see and print digitized documents but not tinker with them, a People read paperwork scanned in Portable Document Format (PDF) but lets it beĪnnotated, filled-in, or otherwise altered and then saved as SAN FRANCISCO: Nitro PDF Software on Tuesday released a free reader built to break rival Adobe System's grip on the world's top digital document format.

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