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Red Software is excited to present version 3.2 of RAD PDF!

RAD PDF continues to be an industry leading PDF reader / viewer, PDF editor, PDF form filler, and PDF signature interface for ASP.NET. This version offers some refinement (and bug fixes) for the new Lite Documents feature.

Additional samples and a complete custom UI example shows off how easy it is to customize RAD PDF for any application.

This version is available free of charge to all RAD PDF licensees with an active RAD PDF Maintenance Plan.

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Today, Red Software releases the first update to RAD PDF 3, the ASP.NET PDF reader, form filler, editor and more.

Version 3.1 adds image and appending support for Lite Documents / PdfWebControlLite. Lite Documents now support all the features of normal documents created using the traditional PdfWebControl.

This release includes new samples and minor bug fixes.

This version is available free of charge to all RAD PDF licensees with an active RAD PDF Maintenance Plan.

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Red Software is proud to announce version 3.0 of RAD PDF!

RAD PDF is an industry leading PDF reader, PDF editor, PDF form filler, and PDF signature interface for ASP.NET. It has been refined, version after version, since 2009. Today Red Software is excited to provide the third major version release of its tool.

This release introduces the new PdfWebControlLite class which allows RAD PDF to be used without SQL Server! While RAD PDF's SQL Server document storage is useful to many customers, maintaining a database is often undesired overhead. Using the new PdfWebControlLite, customers can use RAD PDF's built-in mechanisms or implement custom ones for RAD PDF sessions and storage.

Also by default, RAD PDF now supports ASP.NET Session State in PdfIntegrationProvider implementations. (The new PdfHttpHandlerWithoutSession class can be used to disable Session State use.)

While a major update, it is fully backwards compatible with version 2.x. There are no breaking changes in this new version and can be installed in place. The current PdfWebControl (which uses a SQL Server database) continues to offer the most functionality. It can function alongside the new PdfWebControlLite without issue.

This version is available free of charge to all RAD PDF licensees with an active RAD PDF Maintenance Plan.

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Today, Red Software announces RAD PDF 2.39, the ASP.NET PDF editor, form filler, viewer and more. This version includes a new option to render PDF files at the client instead of server side. This reduces server CPU load and allows RAD PDF to be used without the System Service (abet with some limitations).

This release also includes a number of improvements for using RAD PDF with large PDF files, specifically reducing memory usage through the use of temp files.

RAD PDF's System Service now uses its own caching mechanism by default, reducing the load on the SQL Server database being used with RAD PDF. This can be configured when installing RAD PDF (and the installer will not overwrite already saved settings).

This version is available free of charge to all RAD PDF licensees with an active RAD PDF Maintenance Plan.

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Red Software is excited to announce version 2.38 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF viewer, PDF editor, PDF form filler, PDF signer, and more. This version includes additional ways of interacting with the new PdfSignatureShape object. PdfSignatureShapes can now be added using the GUI (disabled by default). The Client API can also add new shapes for even easier integration into custom signature workflows.

This release also includes minor bug fixes and other enhancements.

This version is available free of charge to all RAD PDF licenses with an active RAD PDF Maintenance Plan.

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