The ability to apply digital signatures to PDF document from a Web browser-based is added by the latest update to the leading ASP.NET control for displaying PDF documents, by Indigo Eight Software with the release of AjaxPDF 2.0. To customize PDF document viewing and management, the update also adds a wealth of new display features.

Allowing customers, partners and even previously anonymous visitors sign the PDF, the new digital signature feature displays a signature panel within the Web browser. The signed PDF document can be emailed or saved to a secure location, or saved to the signer's local drive. AjaxPDF will generate a digital signature certificate on-the-fly or it can be integrated with an authentication system whereby a pre-existing certificate is used. Additionally, the signature feature can be integrated with other third-party digital signature solutions such as signature capture devices.

New display options for the PDF document are also introduced by the AjaxPDF 2.0 update. The PDF document, in previous version, was display in-line within the document. Now, the PDF document, in addition to that option, can be displayed in a movable "window". The PDF document's window can be resized, moved, expanded to fill the screen and much more.

The window, combined with AjaxPDF 2.0's support for the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standard, can be customized to mimic the look and feel of common operating system's windows or be easily customized to meet a site's design theme. Including the classic AjaxPDF window style, one that mimics Microsoft's Windows XP and another in the Apple's Mac OS "Aqua" theme, AjaxPDF 2.0 includes a number of pre-built "skins" for this new window feature.

The PDF document library is another new AjaxPDF feature. This feature allows PDF documents to be stored in an isolated location. Without requiring access to write to the Web server, the library, particularly useful for web applications deployed in shared hosting environments, provides a simple interface for loading, saving and displaying PDFs. Making it a secure alternative to shared or hosted file systems, the storage is accessible only via the AjaxPDF application.

Including the forthcoming Adobe Reader 9.0. AjaxPDF 2.0 supports the version 2.0 thorough 3.5 of the Microsoft .Net framework, AjaxPDF is compatible with Adobe Reader 7.0.9 or later. It requires Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 or the free Visual Studio Express Edition products. Ranging from examples of the new digital signature features, how to set the status of a loading PDF, examples on using the new AjaxPDF library for easy, safe storage of PDF documents in shared hosting environments and much, much more, the update includes over 20 new samples.