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Today, Red Software releases RAD PDF 6.0, the latest version of the ASP.NET web component & drop-in-place GUI for editing PDF files, filling PDF forms, redacting PDF content, signing PDF documents, and more on almost ANY device. RAD PDF supports everything from the latest versions of Chrome and mobile Safari to even Internet Explorer 6! RAD PDF runs on the .NET Framework (3.5 / 4.x) as well as .NET Core, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9, 10, and 11 using Blazor, Razor, MVC, WebForms, and more. Our nuget can be installed on Windows or Linux machines.

Version 6.0 features an vastly overhauled PDF rendering engine! This new, server-side rendering engine has the ability to render PDF files at high resolution more quickly and accurately. It also features multi-threaded processing and increased PDF compatibility.

This upgrade also adds WebP image format support. WebP images can be added to PDF files (or converted to PDF) just like other image formats supported by RAD PDF. (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, SVG, and TIFF are also supported.)

The ExportData() / ExportFormData() methods now have overloads allowing the Encoding for XFDF output to be specified.

And signed PDF files have increased compatibility with RAD PDF by no longer forcing annotations which are missing a name to have one added (thus invalidating the signature). RAD PDF now hashes attributes of those annotations so that they can be properly matched when saving to PDF.

This release fixes a number of important bugs, including potential security vulnerabilities.

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

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Red Software is excited to announce RAD PDF 3.33, the universal PDF editing GUI / WebControl for ASP.NET (including 3.5, 4.x, Core, 5, 6, etc). This update to the PDF editor / PDF form filler / PDF signer / PDF reader includes a number of important improvements, including a CJK word-wrapping issue where text was not always wrapped properly in the PDF output.

Additionally, PDF annotation creation and modification date is now automatically updated and support added for more named menu actions used by PDF buttons and scripts.

This release is available free of charge to customers with an active Maintenance plan.

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Today, Red Software releases RAD PDF 3.27, the newest version of the PDF reader, PDF annotator, PDF editor, PDF form filler, PDF form designer, PDF signer, and more for ASP.NET (including .NET Core, .NET 5, & .NET 6).

This release includes improved language support for languages which require complex text layout or scripts, like Arabic, Thai, Devanagari, Lao, and others. The new UseUniscribe property allows RAD PDF to use Microsoft's Uniscribe to assist in adding new fields and text which have connected characters or other complex font features required by the language. (This feature is only available when running RAD PDF on Windows.)

The new PdfAnnotation.Flatten and PdfField.Flatten properties allow for individual annotations and form fields to be flattened when saving a PDF. This allows developers to more easily implement custom workflows where certain elements of a PDF should be "burned in" or flattened.

Additionally, this version enhances server efficiency with "empty" documents, improves the client-side PDF rendering engine, allows Lite Document sessions to be updated, and fixes a number of important bugs.

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

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