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UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

From time to time, we receive complaints about a PDF not printing quite right when using our free PDF editor, PDFescape. Unintuitively, the cause of this is typically the web browser!

Most web browsers will add some information to printed pages such as the page number, page URL, etc. While this is helpful information for a printout of web page, it is rarely desired on a PDF form. Fortunately, most browsers allow their users to turn off the header and footer text.

Additionally, printer output typically specifies some margins. In the past, some users complained about this making printer output look incorrectly scaled or "shrunk". A recent PDFescape improvement now allows most PDFs to be printed with the intended margins by default, without needing to change browser settings. This latest improvement works with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome and is enabled by default for all users.

Red Software is proud to announce the release of version 2.14 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF editor and PDF viewer. This latest version provides a improvements for using RAD PDF with touch devices. Additionally, text objects are now automatically rotated with their parent page, making it easier for users to add text in multiple orientations.

Client API improvements also allow developers to create even better RAD PDF integations. With the new append() method, web applications can script the addition of pages to a document. Additionally, the new highlightColor object property allows form fields to be highlighted with the colors the best fit the web application.

This release also includes several minor bug fixes and is available immediately.

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

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UPDATE: Red Software is no longer affiliated with PDFescape.

Red Software is proud to announce that PDFescape Premium (our free PDF editor, with premium features) just got better.

You've voiced your opinions and we've listened! PDFescape Premium members can now open PDF documents which are 20 MB (instead of 10 MB) in size. Additionally, files for Premium members can contain up to 200 pages (instead of 100).

These new features will come at no cost to existing PDFescape Premium members whom will receive these perks free of charge for the rest of their membership.

All other PDFescape users will be subject to the same rules as always. We want to reassure all users that the features available to our free users have in no way been diminished (nor do we currently have plans to). We love offering a free PDF editor to the community and have no current plans to stop doing so!

Red Software is proud to announce the release of version 2.13 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF editor and PDF viewer. This latest version provides a improvements for using RAD PDF with non-iOS touch devices. Additionally, long documents can now optionally be truncacted, allowing web applications to simply open only the first few pages of a long document. This release also includes several minor bug fixes and is available immediately.

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

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Red Software is proud to announce the release of version 2.12 of RAD PDF, the ASP.NET PDF editor and PDF viewer. This latest version provides a new page cropping tool, XFA form improvements, as well as a number of minor bug fixes.

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

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