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Red Software is proud to announce RAD PDF 4.3, the newest release of its ASP.NET WebControl, a drop-in component for PDF reading, PDF form filling, PDF editing, PDF redaction, PDF signing, PDF content protection, and more. Compatible with the .NET Framework 3.5+ and ready for ASP.NET 9, RAD PDF continues to have wider platform and browser support than any other web-based PDF editor.

Add Date Fields Using RAD PDFThis update includes support for "date" form fields and "image" form fields. Both extensions of the built in PDF form specification, these fields use JavaScript actions / formatting to allow date picking and image upload, respectively. RAD PDF can now create (via API or the GUI) and modify so-called "date" form fields, even applying custom date formats. Additionally, "image" form fields now can be added (via API or the GUI) and support uploading select image formats (BMP, GIF, JPG, and PNG).

This release fixes a number of bugs, primarily related to importing TIFF images.

This update is available free of charge to all customers with an active Maintenance Plan or Subscription.

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Today, Red Software updates RAD PDF, a drop-in-ready ASP.NET (3.5 / 4.x / Core / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9) web component for editing, form filling, annotating, redacting, signing, and reading PDF files online. Version 4.1 includes a new Dark Theme for its graphical-user-interface (GUI). New object properties have also been added to the modal dialog, allowing desktop and mobile users alike to make even more adjustments to PDF files.

This release also improves form field rendering when zoomed out, makes right clicking more intuitive, and fixes a number of minor bugs.

Inline with Microsoft marking IFormatter and all of its related Serialization classes as obsolete, we have done the same and the PdfLiteSessionSerializer class has been marked Obsolete. We've added new DeserializeFromJson(string) and SerializeToJson() methods to PdfLiteSession, allowing for safer serialization.

This update is available free of charge to all customers with an active Maintenance Plan

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Red Software boasts the 4th major version of its ASP.NET PDF reader / PDF form filler / PDF editor / PDF signer / PDF annotator, RAD PDF! This update sets the default web control theme to a new, more modern theme.

RAD PDF 4.0's Modern ThemeDon't worry, even though RAD PDF 4.0 features a number of changes, our Classic interface can be easily displayed using the Theme="Classic" property. All other existing features are fully compatible with this new major version.

As always, we minimized the breaking changes (spoiler: there aren't any, besides the new default Theme), we improved security, and we adapted RAD PDF for the latest browser versions.

Newly added themes are color neutral; they seamlessly integrate the latest features with the new interface.

This version improves PDF repairing, allowing RAD PDF to open even damaged PDF files. New API properties allow the RAD PDF interface to be additionally customized, exposing advanced features like automatic path merging and more.

Of course, this release also includes a number of bug fixes and other minor improvements.

This update is available free of charge to all customers with an active Maintenance Plan

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