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Red Software is proud to announce version 2.9 of RAD PDF, its plug-in free PDF viewer and editor for ASP.NET WebForms and MVC. This latest release includes a number of server-side integration improvements and minor bug fixes.

RAD PDF now makes integration with your infrastructure easier than ever using new storage maintenance options and added support for encrypted connection strings (via our Integration Provider). Additionally, our new sample code for MVC 3 makes integration with your non-WebForms ASP.NET web application quicker than ever.

Other minor improvements like specifying the control's BackColor, multi-line tool tip support, and minor bug fixes make this the most polished release of RAD PDF yet!

This new version is provided free of charge to customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

Thanks PCWorld for mentioning our free PDF editing and PDF form filling service, PDFescape!

While we primarily offer PDFescape because most free PDF utilities simply fall short of a user's day to day needs, Adobe Acrobat does take up a considerable amount of hard drive space (as much as 1.9 GB according to Adobe for Acrobat X Pro), as this article points out.

Red Software is proud to announce version 2.8 of RAD PDF, the popular ASP.NET PDF viewer and editor component. This latest release features new viewing options and improvements for touch based devices.

RAD PDF now supports the single page continuous page layout, a convenient document viewing mode which allows users to scroll seamlessly from one page to the next. This new viewing mode can be activated via the PdfWebControl's ViewerPageLayoutDefault property.

RAD PDF also features a number of improvements for touch based devices. Users of these devices can now more easily view, edit, and form fill PDF documents using devices with touch input.

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UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape, but this feature is still available in our RAD PDF technology. Edit your PDF with our online implementation, free of charge!

Red Software has released several new upgrades to its free PDF viewer, form filler, and editor, PDFescape.

First, PDFescape now supports viewing documents in a continuous scrolling manner. By simply scrolling from page to page, users of traditional computers and touch devices (e.g. iPad and iPhone) can now more quickly view and edit PDF documents.

Second, improvements to PDFescape's touch detection now allows users of some touch devices to better make use of tools like the Freehand drawing tool.

Red Software is proud to announce the release of version 2.7 of the ASP.NET PDF viewer and editor, RAD PDF. This latest version features a new ink tool, file appending, and improved image loading.

RAD PDF now allows users a new pen / ink tool, allowing users to free hand draw on any page in the currently loaded document. Simply click and drag out the annotation, signature, or other graphic directly on the document.

Users (and custom code via the RAD PDF API) can append PDF and other supported formats to the end of a document, allowing web applications to easily merge PDF documents, visually and online. Simply click the Append tool in the RAD PDF graphical user interface and select a file to upload and the PDF will be inserted at the end of the currently loaded document.

Now, in addition to TIFF images, BMP, JPEG, and PNG images can automatically converted to PDF and loaded in RAD PDF.

This new version is provided free of charge to all customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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