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Red Software is excited to announce version 2.23 of RAD PDF, the PDF editor, PDF form filler, and PDF reader for ASP.NET. This release improves RenderOnDemand performance and adds visual improvements for browsers with blend mode support (e.g. Chrome Canary*, Firefox Nightly*)

Version 2.23 also updates how PDF form field names containing periods are handled. In previous versions, RAD PDF did not accept periods in the name provided. RAD PDF now automatically creates the necessary non-terminal fields to accommodate such naming.

We've also added a new CustomData property to the PdfDocument class. This new property allows PDF output to be tagged with custom data which can then again be accessed when a PDF is again loaded into RAD PDF, allowing RAD PDF to support an even wider range of work flows.

This release also includes several minor bug fixes.

This version is available free of charge to all Red Software customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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*These are experimental browser builds and may require additional configuration to enable blend modes. It is our hope though that CSS blend mode support becomes a widely implemented standard, which RAD PDF will be ready for.

Today, Red Software releases version 2.22 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF reader and PDF editor. This update includes a number of new and exciting features including:

• RenderOnDemand - RAD PDF now optionally renders pages as they are needed. Previous versions of RAD PDF rendered all pages sequentially, often forcing users to wait up to a minute or two for the last page in a very long document. This new feature allows page 100 to load just as quickly as page 1.
• GroupThumbnails - RAD PDF now optionally renders thumbnails even quicker by grouping thumbnails together and reducing the number of HTTP requests.

These new features make RAD PDF even more capable of loading large PDF documents as pages can be rendered out of order making it quick and easy for your users to jump from page 1 to page 101 back to page 70.

This release also includes logging improvements as well as minor bug fixes.

This version is available free of charge to all Red Software customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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Today, Red Software is proud to announce version 2.21 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF viewer and PDF editor. This release adds a new tool as well as improvements to the RAD PDF maintenance routinues.

First, the new Hand Scroll Tool allows users to pan and scroll the pages of PDF files using either their mouse or touch. The new HideHandScroll property also allows this tool to be optionally disabled.

Additionally, the RAD PDF maintenance routinues have been optimized to improve concurrency as well as speed of execution. For large deployments, these additional enhancements help servers running RAD PDF handle additional load.

This release also includes a number of minor bug fixes including iOS improvements and a JPEG 2000 decoding issue.

This version is available free of charge to all Red Software customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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Red Software is proud to announce version 2.20 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF editor and viewer. This release focuses primarily on API enhancements and minor bug fixes.

First, the new Search() method added to the PdfDocumentEditor class allows for server side PDF searching. With this method, you can search a document for key words and terms directly from C# or VB.NET.

Second, the new MaxPdfPageWidth and MaxPdfPageHeight properties allow your PdfWebControl instances to limit the maximum page size or dimensions which should be loaded. With these properties, RAD PDF can be configured to throw an exception if a PdfWebControl instance tries to render a page with a width or height over the set limit.

Additionally, new bug fixes improve the rendering of some PDF documents and provide a work around for a bug found in Internet Explorer 11 which prevented proper tabbing.

This version is available free of charge to all Red Software customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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Here at Red Software, we're proud to announce the release of RAD PDF 2.19! This newest version of our ASP.NET PDF editor and PDF viewer includes an improved PDF renderer, support for SQL Server's ISO data types (nvarchar(max) and nvarbinary(max)), as well as numerous API improvements.

Our updated PDF renderer helps text and images to appear crisper and more accurate, even on mobile devices. Rigorously tested over the last 6 months, these improvements also help improve rendering performance in many cases, particularly when embedded raster images need to be scaled to the viewer (a common need for PDF files created using a scanner).

Support for SQL Server's ISO data types nvarchar(max) and nvarbinary(max) not only ensures RAD PDF's compatibility with future versions of SQL Server (as ntext and image have been deprecated), but also allows database administrators to use SQL Server's FILESTREAM feature to store RAD PDF data outside of the database files, instead on file system. We're excited to provide this much requested feature for those with large RAD PDF implementations or those with large PDF documents in storage.

Additionally, this new version provides a number of bug fixes as well as new client and server API methods.

This version is available free of charge to all Red Software customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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