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UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

Red Software is proud to announce a new Google Chrome extension for our free PDF editor and free PDF form filler, PDFescape.

This new extension makes it easy to open and edit PDF files found while browsing the web using Google Chrome. When a PDF link is clicked, a drop down appears asking if that PDF should be opened and able to be edited / form filled in PDFescape.

Our new extension is available in Google's Chrome Gallery:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gdefoklganepljiopdnglodohlgfikkl?hl=en

A Mozilla Firefox extension for PDFescape can also be downloaded at:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5363

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!

PDFescape, the free PDF editor, now supports the ability to merge and append a file to the end of the open PDF document. With a PDF file open, simply click the PAGES tab, and select Append PDF.



In the pop up dialog, simply select the file from your computer which you wish to append to the end of the open PDF. Then click OPEN.

When the new append feature is used in conjunction with the existing page reorganization tools, PDFescape can compile and prepare for presentation just about any set of PDF documents.

PDFescape continues to provide even more advanced PDF editing features, free of charge.

Additionally, while waiting on Mozilla to review our latest update to the PDFescape Extension, users can download a new, updated version here.

Casual users of PDFescape have been finding this new version much more useful as instead of directly taking you to PDFescape to edit your PDF file, users are now prompted.

UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

Red Software is proud to announce that version 0.9 of the PDFescape Firefox Add-on is now available via Mozilla.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5363

This latest version for our free PDF editor and PDF form filler, PDFescape, fixes some minor issues for our Mac and Linux users.

Additionally, it now supports the new Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 (which is very exciting, because Firefox 3.1 features the new Tracemonkey JavaScript engine which vastly improves the speed of JavaScript based web applications, such as PDFescape)

UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

A few additions have been made to PDFescape.

First, PDFescape now features a new print button. This print button allows users to directly print PDF files from within PDFescape using their browser. With the addition of this print feature, PDFescape is now more than ever a complete and more feature rich replacement for your desktop PDF software.

It is worth noting that because PDFescape uses your browser to print, you may wish to turn off the headers and footers your browser may add to printer output. This is recommended for best results. (more information)

Second, our Firefox extension is now available for public testing. It will allow you to dynamically open PDF files you find as you browse directly in PDFescape. It is available for download from Mozilla:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5363

As always, PDFescape only requires that you have a compatible browser installed. All new features are compatible with Firefox (1.5 & 2), Internet Explorer (6 & 7), and Safari

UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

We are proud to announce a few updates to PDFescape.

PDFescape and PDFescape Enterprise have been been updated to support new form field tags such as read only fields and required form fields. With these new additions, the look and layout form creators have made will be better preserved in PDFescape's cross platform interface.

Additionally, the core libraries to PDFescape have been updated as, providing a more robust interface which will further increase product reliability and uptime

PDFescape Enterprise now includes some new features allowing the importing and exporting of data from databases. PDFescape Enterprise (through the use of some quick custom programming) can now prefill data from your database as well as export that data back into your system upon completion. Currently this is achieved through the use of a proprietary data string, however XFDF (the XML specification of the old FDF specification) will soon be implemented. XFDF is an open Adobe controlled specification.

PDFescape will support both the form field specification as well as a portion of the annotation portion of the XFDF specification in the coming months.

Also in the works are 3 new programs:

• Firefox Extension - This plug-in will allow you to automatically open PDF files in PDFescape. When enabled, instead of downloading a PDF, your browser will automatically send the file over to PDFescape to be opened. When easily disabled, your PDF files operate as they did before. BETA testers are welcome to give our Add-On a try. We will post a link to it later this month  You now can try it over on the Mozilla Add On Sandbox Website. You will need to have  Mozilla account and have the Sandbox enabled in order to download a copy
• PDFescape For Your Domain - Tired of purchasing PDFescape credits for everyone in your office? We soon will be offering a single low fee allowing unlimited use of premium features by all PDFescape users from the same domain
• PDFescape Publishing - While publishing a file on PDFescape is currently possible, we want to make it easier to do, more user friendly, and less confusing