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Red Software is excited to release version 2.25 of the PDF editing and viewing ASP.NET component, RAD PDF! A new printer settings dialog now allows users to print page ranges, improving the user experience as well as server performance (as non-desired pages are no longer rendered). This update also includes rendering improvements across the board, including CMap (Character Map) support.

Version 2.25 also introduces several minor new features, including improved layout metrics for multilined PdfTextFields using fonts not installed on the client.

This release also includes several bug fixes.

This version is available free of charge to all Red Software customers with an active Maintenance Plan.

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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.