PDFescape

Collaborate With PDF Documents Online Using PDFescape

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:04:53 PST

CTdeveloping is proud to announce the latest feature addition to PDFescape, sharing documents. Users of PDFescape can now upload documents to PDFescape multiple people to edit and thousands of people to view. Similar to other services which require payment, PDFescape’s online collaboration tools allow for easy, near instantaneous idea sharing.

Need to comment or receive feedback on a PDF document just sent to you? Looking to get customer approval of artwork or layouts in PDF format? PDFescape makes this easy, and best of all, free!

Sharing documents on PDFescape is easy. Simply click the “Share” button in the lower left hand corner when viewing any of your PDF documents.

Using sophisticated editing control, PDFescape ensures that only one PDFescape user can form fill or edit a PDF document at a time while still allowing unlimited users to view the document. Whenever a change is made, all other viewers are automatically alerted of the updates and all screens refreshed in near real time.

Beating many of the other big PDF players to the punch, PDFescape creates an online meeting space for anyone looking to share PDF documents. As always, PDFescape only requires your web browser. No third party software is required, not even Adobe Flash or Adobe Reader!

PDFescape continues to be the most powerful PDF editor available online!

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PDF Assembly & Page Management Tools in PDFescape

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:44:02 PST

We are proud to announce two new features in PDFescape.

PDF Page Deletion - Delete pages in PDF files opened in PDFescape, allowing confidential and unneeded information to be removed from PDF files.
PDF Page Moving - Move, reorder, and rearrange pages in your PDF files and forms.

With these latest additions, PDFescape continues to be be the leading, free online PDF editor

Adding to its feature list, PDFescape is the most complete online PDF editor

Overview:

Open PDF files & forms, with zooming capability (both from your computer & online)
Save your progress online for future access
Download & Email Edited PDF files
Print PDF files
Create PDF forms
Fill out PDF forms

Features:

Add text, checkmarks, & vector art
Add PDF form fields
Add hyperlinks
Mark-up PDF files
Remove PDF pages
Reorder / move PDF pages
Form field highlighting & tabbing for ease of form filling
Change PDF document information tags
Publish PDF files for others to fill out & return to you

Best of all, PDFescape still requires nothing more than your web browser.
No third party software is needed (not even Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash)!

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Zooming & Firefox 3 Support Added

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:25:09 PST

We are excited to announce that PDFescape has two exciting new features:

Zooming: Zoom in or out when viewing your PDF file or form. This has been a much requested feature from PDFescape users, which we finally had to completely overhauled PDFescape in order to enable. While a small feature from the user perspective, this is a big enabler for some new features and linking options PDFescape users will see in the coming months.
Firefox 3 Support: Firefox 3 is in prerelease and not expected to change much between now and its official release. As such PDFescape has been made ready for this new browser update. PDFescape runs faster and smoother under Firefox 3. FF3 should be a much anticipated release from Mozilla for PDFescape users. Additionally, FF3 (as well as Safari 2 & 3) are the best browsers to use for the new zooming feature in PDFescape. Earlier versions of FF & Internet Explorer will render the zoomed file much grainier.

PDFescape File Retention Time Increased

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:34:58 PST

At the request of many of the more avid users of PDFescape, files uploaded to PDFescape will now stay on our servers until they have not been accessed or resaved for 30 days (prior to this, the 30 day expiration date was set based on when the file was originally uploaded).

We believe that this new file retention policy only makes PDFescape a more usage PDF reader & editor, especially for PDFescape's most loyal users!

Files still can be deleted from our servers at any time through the use of the PDF file manager in your online account.

Print From PDFescape and PDFescape Firefox Extension

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:41:00 PST

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 us directly at:
https://www.pdfescape.com/downloads/pdfescape_extension-0.4-fx.xpi
or Mozilla (log in required):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/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

New PDFescape & PDFescape Enterprise Features

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:00:56 PST

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

PDFescape Interface Improvements

Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:30:11 PST

The main interface of PDFescape has received a small make over. The main toolbar for making changes to PDF files is now clearer and easier to use.

Also, some optimizations have been made to improve online performance as well as compatibility upgrades for use with Safari 2 and the up and coming Safari 3.

PDFescape: Secure Access

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:31:14 PST

Registered users of PDFescape now can securely access, upload, and work with their files.

Using industry standard SSL encryption, registered users can open, edit, and download PDF files via a secure connection to our servers. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is trusted in many online matters such as online banking and online purchases.

PDFescape servers implement strict access control protocols, privacy policies, and daily Hacker Safe^® scans. These policies and procedures help ensure that PDF files used on PDFescape are kept private and only accessible by you.

Coupling our current privacy and security measures with SSL deployment on the server should make PDFescape a great choice for any business or industry, even those with the strictest of privacy and security concerns.

PDFescape Registration Now Optional

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:10:42 PST

In order to make PDFescape even easier to use, registration for PDFescape is now optional.

By clicking the
Start Using Unregistered
link, you can begin using PDFescape immediately, no questions asked.

Now of course because our server has no idea who you are, some features are limited. For example, PDF files you save to the server will be deleted from our servers after you log out. You also can not use or purchase "Premium Credits" while using one of these "unregistered" accounts. You can however at any point convert this "unregistered" account into a full fledged account in about 30 seconds by providing your name, email address, and a password.

Also, users who are publishing files to PDFescape now have the option of linking directly to file. No longer do your customers have to sign up for an account with us, they be optionally taken directly to the file, no questions asked!

We are sure that this new approach will make PDFescape even more appealing to the thousands of people already using it. Thank you for all of your comments and feedback about PDFescape. Keep it coming.

PDFescape Enterprise Updated

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:41:43 PST

The Enterprise edition of PDFescape has been updated to support some of the new features currently seen on PDFescape. This includes the recent anti-aliasing update which allows for clearer, more readable PDF files to be displayed online.

Also, the installer has been streamlined, making setup even easier for IT professionals.

This minor update also fixes several small bugs. For additional information, visit the PDFescape Enterprise website.