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UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

Red Software, the creators of the free PDF editor PDFescape, are proud to announce a few new performance improvements:

• Upload files up to 10 MB (double the old limit!)
• Edit PDF files up to 100 pages (double the old limit!)
• Large PDF files and forms load in browser faster

These improvements are immediately available to all users of PDFescape, basic account holders and premium users alike.

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!

With Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 9 last night, the months of development and testing our free PDF editor, PDFescape, with IE9's beta have paid off!

We're proud to announce official support for IE9:

Note: Don't worry Firefox users, support for version 4 is also up and running on PDFescape!

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 is proud to announce a new PDF annotation feature for its free PDF editor, PDFescape, text highlighting!

Found on the new "Annotate" tab of the PDFescape interface, the highlight tool allows text or graphics to be illuminated with the familiar yellow (or any other color) glow. Additionally, the link insertion tool has been streamlined, the check mark type for new check / radio form fields can now be set, and combo / list form fields can now have their options automatically sorted.

With these minor improvements, PDFescape continues to be the most powerful free PDF editor and PDF form filler online!

UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

The free PDF editor, PDFescape, can now be logged into using your Facebook account. To create a new PDFescape account, simply click "Sign In Using Facebook" at the bottom of the account login page.

Once you Allow access, your PDFescape account will be created and you will be logged in and ready to open, form fill, and edit PDF files.

Version 1.9 of the ASP.NET PDF viewer, PDF form filler, and PDF editor, RAD PDF, has been released.

This new version allows web users to add images to PDF files, empowers developers to adjust PDF rendering resolution, and improves future browser compatibility.

One of our most requested features, we encourage you to try the new RAD PDF image adding tool online in our interactive ASP.NET PDF Viewer Demonstration. At this time, RAD PDF supports the addition of the following image types:

• BMP
• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG

This new feature makes it easy for your customers to upload and attach digital representations of their signature, photos, logos, watermarks, or more! Images can also be added server side allowing you to pre-add an image from your database, allowing your we user to either review it or even drag and resize it into place.

This new version also provides a number of bug fixes and minor feature updates.

This is a free upgrade for all customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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