July 6, 2005
ARTS PDF, the award-winning and category-leading developer of "PDF power tools" for business, including many Fortune 500 firms, announced today that sales of its latest product offering Nitro PDF™ Desktop had exceeded expectations, putting them on target for sales north of 100,000 units by the end of 2005.
Sam Chandler, ARTS PDF COO, said Nitro PDF Desktop was already the No. 2 "Desktop Publishing" download at Download.com, had earned the coveted Download.com "Popular" status and was a hot seller at $99 into the business and corporate sectors, with license deals of 500+ seats, such as Monier Lifetile, America's largest manufacturer of roof tiles.
Key to Nitro PDF's success is the company's track record in the PDF space. "We are the PDF experts that have for the past eight years been the leading developer of power plug-ins for Adobe® Acrobat®. Now we have our own Acrobat® at a price point our corporate customers love. They know we're here for the long haul and we will continue our aggressive innovation and upgrade strategies to ensure we have the best product on the market now -- and for years to come," said Chandler.
Nitro, which boasts US-based customer support, is already getting accolades from industry leaders such as PDF industry gurus and authors including Donna Baker, author, Adobe® Acrobat® 7 in the Office.
"Wow, I am thoroughly impressed. Nitro PDF provides an enormous amount of functionality for the price point," said Baker.
Leading PDF author and international speaker Ted Padova, author of the Adobe® Acrobat® PDF Bible, has recently authored the Nitro PDF user guide.
PDFzone said "ARTS PDF remade the market for PDF software by announcing Nitro PDF."
eWeek said: "Nitro PDF's speed distinguishes it from its rivals."
"Nitro PDF is easy to use and has a great interface."
A Nitro PDF customer, World Vision's Drew Hart, Technical Support & Training Manager, said: "We have been using various PDF generation products quite happily, but sometimes you don't know what you're missing out on until you see and use a product like Nitro PDF. Whilst other products have met our basic needs, the business impact of Nitro is much more significant. It is feature rich, easy to use, fully integrated within all our business applications and it has proven to be very much worth our while to make the change across to Nitro throughout the organization."
Sam Chandler, ARTS PDF COO, said, "This is truly about 'PDF for the people and PDF for business', as we believe PDF is an essential tool for every information worker throughout businesses and corporations for document interchange and retention, document security, and collaboration.
"Until now there has been no product for the business market that is fully-featured like Acrobat®, producing high-quality PDFs and giving access to a sophisticated set of editing and manipulation tools. Nitro PDF is a true alternative to Acrobat® and we're pleased to see it selling so well so soon, winning customers like World Vision and Monier."
Competitively priced at $99, Nitro PDF Desktop gives users full control over PDF documents, including commenting, form-filling and authoring, digital signatures, text editing, one-click creation from Microsoft® Office and more.
For a full list of features see www.nitropdf.com.
ARTS PDF (Parent Company -- BinaryThing Group: www.binarything.com) is a leading developer of PDF software with a product range that includes award-winning and category-leading plug-ins for Adobe® Acrobat® in addition to standalone applications such as Nitro PDF. Nitro PDF (Server and now Desktop) is the company's latest offering, which delivers the power and functionality of Adobe® Acrobat® at less than one third the cost.
Founded in 1997, ARTS PDF today has operations spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company's software is used by tens of thousands of business, technical, publishing, print production and creative professionals. For more information, visit www.artspdf.com.
Other BinaryThing companies:
ARTS PDF Global Services - http://www.artspdf.com/globalservices.
Planet PDF - http://www.planetpdf.com.
PDF Store - http://www.pdfstore.com.
Susan Fitzpatrick
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James Little
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