Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 12:00PM Red Software is happy to announce the latest release of RAD PDF, the most full featured PDF GUI & web control for ASP.NET 3.5, 4.x, Core, 5, and 6!
Our PDF editor & form filler for the web supports new encryption options (like 256-bit AES) along with support for the latest release of Safari (15.2) on iOS.
Additionally, this version fixes a form field bug introduced in 3.27 along with improving radio export values for non-Acrobat viewers.
This update is available free of charge to customers with an active Maintenance Plan.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 10:00AM 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.
ASP.NET, Arabic, PDF Form Flattening, Thai, Uniscribe, pdf, pdf forms in Announcements, RAD PDF Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 9:00AM Red Software is excited to release RAD PDF 3.26, the ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core / ASP.NET 5 / ASP.NET 6 Web Control for reading, printing, editing, filling, signing, and more with PDF files in almost any web browser!
This latest version adds support for .NET 6 and ASP.NET 6's new Program.cs conventions.
Additionally, form fields with numeric formats are now applied (and their appearance streams fully generated) when saving or printing. See our new example which uses PDF form field formatting and calcuations.
Also, a new FlattenInput property has been added to the PdfWebControl, allowing input PDF forms and annotations to be flattened before being loaded in RAD PDF.
This update is available free of charge to customers with an active Maintenance Plan.
.NET 6, ASP.NET 6, PDF calculations, PDF formatting, pdf, pdf forms in Announcements, RAD PDF Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 9:00AM Today, Red Software updates its ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core / ASP.NET 5 web component RAD PDF, a leading PDF editing, PDF form filling, and PDF signing GUI.
This release is also now available via a NuGet for all supported platforms, including .NET Framework 3.5 / 4.x, .NET Core, and .NET 5! Our latest NuGet package helps streamline integrations, updates, and deployments.
With the introduction of the NuGet package, we have also made it easier to get started with sample code by cloning our GitHub repository for the latest examples of how to use RAD PDF.
This update also includes some minor bug fixes including an issue when using form fields with iOS 12 or earlier.
This new version is available free of charge to customers with an active Maintenance Plan.
ASP.NET, ASP.NET 5, ASP.NET Core, iOS, nuget, pdf in Announcements, RAD PDF Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 9:00AM Red Software is excited to release RAD PDF 3.22, the ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core / ASP.NET 5 Web Control for reading, printing, editing, filling, signing, and more with PDF files in almost any web browser!
This latest version allows RAD PDF to be deployed with server side page rendering, but without the RAD PDF System Service. This allows for tighter PDF file protection and faster rendering of large files when deploying / developing using our nuget for a single instance. Implementations are now a breeze when using Azure App Services, ASP.NET 5, and similar environments.
With ASP.NET Core / ASP.NET 5, RAD PDF can now be configured to not use the RAD PDF System Service with a single line of code in a Setup.cs class:
app.UseRadPdf(new RadPdfCoreMiddlewareSettings() { UseService = false });
This UseService=false can also be used in the .NET Framework or .NET Core integration provider. HttpHandler rendering can be disabled by setting AllowHttpHandlerRendering=false.
This update is available free of charge to customers with an active Maintenance Plan.
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