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Short and minor announcement before the weekend. After a few weeks of preliminary testing, we are proud to announce that the viewer quality of PDF files in PDFescape has been improved.

The new anti-aliasing filter being used in PDFescape allows our web application to more clearly render files to your browser. This update will take effect on all browsers supported by PDFescape (Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari)

Please let us know if you discover any new errors being caused by this PDFescape improvement.

To help us streamline the support process and serve as many customers as possible, Red Software has implemented a new company wide support system.

This support system is now in use for PDFescape.

Through its use of a "smart knowledge base", we hope that this new support system will allow us to serve more customers with the support they deserve (and it's purdy to boot).

To take a look (or open a support issue ticket), visit:

http://www.pdfescape.com/pdf/contact/

Leave a comment to let us know what you think about the new system.

Online PDF Web Application Offers Free Saving of PDF Forms

"Ever open a PDF form, fill it out, only to realize that Adobe Reader wouldn't let you save your work? With PDFescape, your customers and website visitors will never feel that frustration again. This new free service enables website owners and weblog posters to prepare and distribute their PDF forms efficiently, enabling the key functionality of saving completed forms."

Full Press Release

Greetings fellow PDFescape users,

PDFescape's XML backend has been reconstructed to run faster (up to 2000% percent faster!), especially with large files with lots of form fields. Files with hundreds, even thousands, of form fields are no longer slow to load in the PDFescape interface.

Also, we have finished up the PDF Publishing interface and is ready for use (and is in fact actively in use by  some of our customers).

In order to demo the published files feature, we are providing a link to a sample file, an IRS 1040 form.

Click Here

(Please note while this IRS form can be submitted, it will submit to us, not the IRS. It is for demostration purposes only.)

This is exactly what your customers would experience using PDFescape to easily fill out a form. You'll notice how quickly and easily the service loads; how easy the form is to fill out; how easy it is for your customers to submit their completed form. If you could see our side of things, you'd notice that when a form is submitted, that it quickly arrives as an attachment to an email, delivered to an inbox of our choice.

If you have any questions about these recent updates or would like to discuss with us how we can help you with your forms, please let us know.

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Red Software is proud to release PDFescape, the first and only online PDF reader, editor, form filler, and form creator.

 Ever have just a handful of PDF files you wish to fill out and save, only to find out that the free Adobe® Reader won’t cut it? And worse the upgrade to Acrobat® Standard costs almost $300!

 Computer owners reluctant to hand over hundreds of dollars to Adobe®, or other software companies, now have a choice! Why pay hundreds on a piece of software just to fill out a hand full of PDF forms? Don’t, and choose PDFescape. PDFescape enables its users to professionally complete tax forms, job applications, and other documents distributed in the PDF format. PDFescape requires a modern web browser and an active internet connection. That’s it. It doesn’t require the download, purchase, or installation of any software. Best of all, its basic features are free. And those wishing to save PDF files without the PDFescape logo embedded on them pay less than one dollar per form.

 PDFescape features the abilities to open files online from your local computer or other websites. In addition to filling out existing form fields, users can add text, vector shapes, hyperlinks, additional form fields, and more to existing files. This means that even files which didn’t have pre-existing form fields can still be filled out. It also means that users can create their own customized PDF forms on the web with ease.

 PDFescape empowers businesses to publish files online as well. Using some very simple web tools, those wishing to distribute their own PDF form can upload it directly to PDFescape. They can then link customers to the online PDF form, enabling them to fill it out, online, at no cost to their customers. Completed forms can even be set to be emailed to the business who originally published the form to PDFescape upon form submission.

 “I believe PDFescape is the future of PDF form distribution,” says Chris Truxaw, lead developer for PDFescape. “It allows forms to be filled out in one convenient location online without requiring the installation or purchase of any software. Web applications are the future of computing, and PDFescape is the first to bring this future to the PDF file format.”

 At this time PDFescape is compatible with all operating systems supporting Firefox 1.5+ or 2+, Internet Explorer 6+ or 7+, or Safari.

More information on PDFescape can be found at:

http://www.pdfescape.com

 

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