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TX Text Control .NET 17.0 SP1 released

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:43:33 GMT

Word processor created with TX Text Control .NET for WPF.

TX Text Control .NET is a royalty-free word processing control that offers developers a broad range of word processing features in one reusable component. You can load, edit and save Microsoft Word formats (DOCX, DOC, RTF etc.) and build powerful reporting applications.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 17.0 SP1

The following bugs were fixed:

In the WPF image dialog, the height property is not working correctly if the system language is set to US.
PDF/A export: The xmpMM:DocumentID metadata property value is not of type GUID/UUID.
TX Text Control does not adopt option changes immediately.
If a DocumentLink is clicked and the ScrollTo method is used, text will be selected after the DocumentTarget.
DOC and RTF import: Unable to save loaded document.
Table in XML sample will break, if another XML element is added.
DOC export: Missing vertical table cell alignment.
DOCX, DOC and RTF export: Error 1-1d09, if the last cell of a table is a merged cell and the next table follows immediately.
Table attributes cannot be set with the dialog when the table is completely selected.
Using the TAB key in tables does not select the cell text.
Tables.Remove does not work.
PDF export: Clipped fixed image above top or bottom margin are not visible.
Addresses like test@text.com are not ignored correctly.
RTF import: Document causes 01-1D09 error or a program termination.
HTML import: Selection.Load always fails.
Cell.Select selects complete table row.
Vertical text alignment cannot be set in merged table cells.
Error 01-200F is thrown if a document is appended that holds an image at a geometrical position.
Faulty behaviour of Paragraph.Text in table cells.
Text is not displayed, if a table spans a page break and vertical alignment has been set.
Setting txTableCellVertAlign value for the first cell in a row sets the alignment for the table row.
TXW document which could be saved in v13 could not be saved in v16 or v15.
Delete and Backspace keys have different effects on paragraph formatting in v16 and v17.
Unable to load documents containing 'Forced end of column' character and tables.
Table at the end of a document is not deleted correctly.
Text Control Words crashes upon loading a specific document.
Whitespace is lost when loading TXTextControl.StringStreamType.RichTextFormat.
MisspelledWordColletion.GetItem returns null when removing each MisspelledWord from the collection.
Wrong formating when widow/orphan control is set to 1 line, using two columns.
Error 01-2722 is caused when appending documents.
TextParts Collection iterates through more than 1 TX Text Control instance.
ResetContents does not reset page orientation.
TX Text Control cannot be compiled on a Team Foundation Server because of the visibility check.
HangingIndent is not working properly.
In some cases MisspelledWordCollection.GetItem returns null for misspelled words in tables.
Image size changes if zoom values are set to random numbers.

About Text Control (formerly The Imaging Source)

Text Control is a leading manufacturer of word processing components for Microsoft development technologies. TX Text Control was introduced in 1991 and the company is 100% self-owned and independent of all investor decisions. With more than 45,000 licenses sold, in more than 80 countries, TX Text Control is the clear market leader in word processing components. A large number of Fortune 500 companies use TX Text Control in their products and TX Text Control is part of several standard software packages.

Fast and reliable multi-lingual spell checker

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:15:05 GMT

Context menu shows spelling suggestions from TX Spell.

Text Control launches TX Spell 2.0 for Windows Forms and WPF.

TX Spell checks spelling as you type, word by word, and when you copy and paste. Right-clicking on a spelling mistake presents a context menu with suggestions and options to "Ignore All" or "Add to user dictionary". TX Spell comes with built-in support for Hunspell dictionaries plus the ability to spell check multi-lingual documents at the same time.

The following editions are available:

Features

Spell-as-you-type - Words that are not in the selected or user dictionaries are underlined using wavy red lines. TX Spell .NET for WPF persistently checks spelling as you type, word by word, and when you copy and paste. Right-clicking on a spelling mistake presents a context menu with suggestions and options to Ignore All or Add to user dictionary.
User dictionaries - Unrecognized words and specialist vocabulary, such as legal or medical terms, can be added to a user dictionary. To assist end-users maintaining their user dictionaries, TX Spell .NET for WPF ships with a user dictionary editor.
Integrated dialog box - Using the integrated dialog box, you can see which words are incorrectly spelled, replace the word with one of the suggestions, ignore the spelling mistake just this once, or ignore it completely. The options dialog box allows you to specify which kinds of words should be ignored and whether repeated words should be considered a spelling mistake or not. The options dialog box is accessed directly from the above spelling dialog.
Multi-lingual spell checking - TX Spell .NET for WPF supports multi-lingual documents. For example, it is possible to check a document, which contains English, German, French and Spanish text without having to manually switch between dictionaries.
Seamless integration into TX Text Control - TX Spell .NET for WPF was developed by the same team of engineers, which maintains TX Text Control. Hence, the spell checking component enjoys a deep integration within the main word processing component. Integrating TX Spell .NET for WPF into TX Text Control requires no code - it can be easily connected using the Visual Studio designer.
Multiple TextControls, one spell checker - Using TX Spell .NET for WPF, it is possible to perform spell checking on multiple TextControls on a single form. It is not necessary to have one instance of the spell checker, for each instance of TextControl. This dramatically reduces the required memory and speeds up the spell checking process.

About Text Control

Text Control GmbH is a leading manufacturer of word processing components for Microsoft development technologies (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation and ActiveX). As a leader of word processing technologies, its products help thousands of developers add comprehensive word processing functionality to their applications. Using Text Control developer tools, documents can be created, edited, converted and printed. TX Text Control was introduced in 1991 and the company is 100% self-owned and independent of all investor decisions. A large number of Fortune 500 companies use TX Text Control in their products and TX Text Control is part of several standard software packages. Text Control GmbH is a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and Embarcadero Technology Partner.

TX Text Control ActiveX 17.0 adds cell merging

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:15:48 GMT

Define table frame and color properties with TX Text Control ActiveX.

Version 17 improves support for tables with the ability to merge selected cells and split previously merged cells.

TX Text Control ActiveX includes the ability to export all documents can be exported to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 17.0

Enhanced Table Support - Text selections in tables has been extended so that it is now possible to select table columns and rectangular areas of table cells.
Merged Table Cells - Merge selected cells to a single cell and split previously merged cells.
Named Table Cells - Each table cell can have a name which can be used to store any string data associated with the cell.
Colored Table Lines - The color and width of every single border in each cell can be adjusted programmatically or using a built-in dialog box.
Page Borders - Allows you to add a border around one or more edges of a page or relative to the text on a page.
Digital Signatures in Adobe PDF and PDF/A documents - Digital signatures can be created with PFX, DER Cer or Base64 CER certificate files.
Spell Checking - Support has been added for the new TXSpellChecker component.
Improved HTML Import and Export - HTML import filter now uses parsing rules described in the W3C specification of HTML5.

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Enhanced table support for TX Text Control for WPF

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:16:15 GMT

Word processor created with TX Text Control .NET for WPF.

In version 17.0 it is now possible to select table columns and rectangular areas of table cells.

TX Text Control .NET for WPF is a royalty-free word processing control that offers developers a broad range of word processing features in one reusable component. TX Text Control .NET for WPF is ideally suited to all applications that demand powerful, but flexible word processing features. With TX Text Control .NET for WPF you can: integrate comprehensive word processing into your Windows applications, load, edit and save Microsoft Word formats (DOCX, DOC, RTF etc.), build powerful reporting applications, use XAML data binding to bind to tool and ribbon bars and more. TX Text Control .NET for WPF is completely royalty-free and includes unlimited free technical support by e-mail and phone.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 17.0

Enhanced Table Support - Text selections in tables has been extended so that it is now possible to select table columns and rectangular areas of table cells.
Merged Table Cells - Merge selected cells to a single cell and split previously merged cells.
Named Table Cells - Each table cell can have a name which can be used to store any string data associated with the cell.
Colored Table Lines - The color and width of every single border in each cell can be adjusted programmatically or using a built-in dialog box.
Page Borders - Allows you to add a border around one or more edges of a page or relative to the text on a page.
Digital Signatures in Adobe PDF and PDF/A documents - Digital signatures can be created with PFX, DER Cer or Base64 CER certificate files.
Spell Checking - Support has been added for the new TXSpellChecker component.
Improved HTML Import and Export - HTML import filter now uses parsing rules described in the W3C specification of HTML5.

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TX Text Control 17.0 released

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:40:00 GMT

Sample document created with TX Text Control .NET.

Now supports digital signatures for PDF and PDF/A documents.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms is a royalty-free word processing control which provides your application with the ability to read, edit, and create documents in industry standard formats like MS Word DOCX, DOC, RTF, HTML and XML. It includes the ability to export all documents to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists plus MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include report generation, mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion and WYSIWYG word processing.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 17

Enhanced Table Support - text selections in tables has been extended so that it is now possible to select table columns and rectangular areas of table cells.
Merged Table Cells - you can now merge selected cells to a single cell and split previously merged cells.
Named Table Cells - each table cell can have a name which can be used to store any string data associated with the cell.
Colored Table Lines - the color and width of every single border in each cell can be adjusted programmatically or using a built-in dialog box.
Page Borders - this new feature allows you to add a border around one or more edges of a page or relative to the text on a page.
Digital Signatures in Adobe PDF and PDF/A documents - digital signatures can be created with PFX, DER Cer or Base64 CER certificate files.
Spell Checking - support has been added for the new TXSpellChecker component.
Improved HTML Import and Export - the HTML import filter now uses the parsing rules described in the W3C specification of HTML5.

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TX Text Control .NET V16 SP2 released

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:12:00 GMT

Adding a link to a document TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms V16 SP2 enables support for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server environments.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms includes the ability to export all documents to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms Standard
TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms Professional
TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms Enterprise

Updates in V16 SP2

Enables support for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server environments.

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TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET updated

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:32:00 GMT

Spelling suggestions displayed by TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET.

Version 16 is based on the new spell checker interface that comes with TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms.

TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET is ideally suited to all TX Text Control .NET applications that demand feature rich and fast spell checking. TX With Text Control RapidSpell .NET you can integrate high performance spell checking into your TX Text Control .NET applications. TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET supports Windows Forms and ASP.NET and includes multiple dictionaries (UK and US English, Combined English, German (old and new spelling), Australian, Canadian). TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET includes integrated dialog and as-you-type checking and is completely royalty-free.

Updates in V16

This release is completely based on the new spell checker interface that comes with TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms. The implementation of this interface guarantees a very stable and fast performance.

About The Imaging Source

The Imaging Source was founded in Germany in 1991 under the name DBS (Digitale Bildverarbeitung und Systementwicklung). A few months after opening a branch in Charlotte, NC, USA, the company changed its name to The Imaging Source to address a worldwide market. The Imaging Source has been developing TX Text Control since its inception in 1991, but an equally important part of the company's expertise, which is reflected in the name, is the creation of complete imaging systems.

TX Text Control .NET V16 SP1 released

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:18:00 GMT

Adding a link to a document TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V16 SP1

The following bugs were fixed in this Service Pack:

RTF import: Tabs are imported differently in headers and footers than in main text in some cases.
RTF import: Images inserted 'inline with text' having shape property 'pibName' cause 1D09.
RTF import: certain types of OLE objects can cause problems.
RTF import: document causes error 01-1D09.
RTF export: Numbering properties of paragraphs get lost because of fields in certain cases.
HTML import: Relative table height not set correctly.
HTML import: Line spacing is incorrectly assigned when used in table element.
HTML import: HTML fragments are truncated in certain cases.
HTML import: superfluous paragraph after table.
HTML import: Text in Form elements is not imported.
HTML export: anchored images are not exported in some cases
CSS import: in certain cases a misplaced whitespace character can crash TX Text Control.
DOCX export adds an extra digit to the actual page number (page number field).
DOCX import: Document causes error 01-1D09.
HighEdit fields are causing an NullPointerException on loading an RTF document.
.NET - Hyperlinks are not exported to PDF.
Problem loading document with FormattingPrinter = 'Display'.
Numbering is lost if a textfield is in the paragraph and saved as RTF.
Setting the text property of an XML object in TextControl does not work.
Internal Text Control file format version 8 and older cannot be loaded.
NullReferenceException when closing a 'child' Window that contains WPF.TextControl.
Error 01-2701 is thrown if a text is to be inserted under a nested table.
Error 01-1B00 is thrown if a RTF document with an image as reference is loaded 200 times.
TX Template Designer: Property Grid doesn't work with Merge Fields.
Negative metafile dimensions lead to error 04-0111 when saving.
Document causes System.NullReferenceException.
Refresh problem of WPF.StatusBar.ShowZoom Property.
Refresh problem of StatusBarShowKeyStates.
Misleading Documentation of WPF ButtonBar Properties.
Changing TextControl.PageUnit has no effect on PageSize.Height and PageSize.Width values.
In some cases setting TableRow.IsHeader=true has no effect.
ParagraphCollection.GetItem returns null if the cursor is at the end of the document.
ResetContents throws 01-0902 or 01-0903.
Footer text will be moved to header if the footer has been inserted programmatically.
Status bar text doesn't update on undo.
[Normal] style can be deleted in the styles dialog.
FirstPageFooter can not be activated programmatically.
Tab stop is lost and not used for formatting if it has been placed exactly on the page margin.
Error 01-0903 when calling TextControl.ResetContents() under certain circumstances.
If a paragraph is entered and removed with backspace after a large block of continuous text, TextControl crashes.
When saving and loading HTML, the indent of lists will be changed.
Header will be removed from document after undo, although AllowUndo is set to false.
Wrong handling of TextBefore when changing level.
ServerTextControl.Clear() does not work.
Paragraph disappears when printing.
FirstPageHeader/-Footer activate() does not work with large documents.
Image in document causes a 1-1b00 exception on printing.
ParagraphStyle and InlineStyle are not copied correctly.
HTML file can not be loaded when running Windows 7.
If a table is added with a negative column or row count, TX Text Control crashes.
A textfield is stretched to the next table cell if another column is added.

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TX Text Control adds repeating headers

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:11:00 GMT

Defining table frame and color properties.

TX Text Control ActiveX V16.0 also adds new spell checker interface and new page rendering engine.

TX Text Control ActiveX features the ability to export all documents can be exported to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V16

New Repeating Table Headers
Tables are often used to display large amounts of data, for example in a sales report. As the maximum length of a table on any one page can only be the maximum height of the page (minus margins and headers and footers), it is necessary to divide the table every time a page break occurs. As of TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0, any row in a table can be automatically added to the top of each table, right after a page break has occurred. This new feature ensures that tables always have a table header on every page, regardless of how long they may become. Table headers may contain any formatting, text or images that are available in any other cell of a table. Therefore, it is possible, for example, to add a corporate logo to the top left cell of a long table on every page, while the others header cells contain bold textual information.

New Spell Checker Interface
TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0 provides an entirely new generic spell checker interface that allows any 3rd partly spell checking component to be easily integrated into a TX Text Control based application. The TextControl.SpellCheckText event occurs, if the text of a document has been altered and the spelling of the new text needs to be checked. The event handler receives an argument, which contains data that is related to this event. TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0 underlines these misspelled words automatically. Misspelled words are added to the MisspelledWordPositions array, which can be used to manipulate the misspelled words in a document's text (remove, get item). This is particularly useful to create your own spell check dialog.

Extended User Interface
New buttons have been added to TXButtonBar, which can be used to:

Grow and shrink the font sizes of all selected fonts.
Increase or decrease the left indent of all the selected paragraphs.

Corresponding methods have been added to TXTextControl to provide this functionality from programming code:

GrowFont
ShrinkFont
IncreaseIndent
DecreaseIndent

Page Rendering Engine
The new page rendering engine allows a graphical representation of a page to be saved as a Visual Basic compatible Picture object. Exported pages can be converted into a number of other formats, such as JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, TIFF or ICO. The layout of the exported page image is exactly the same as that of the printed document or PDF. A typical application for this new functionality would be to generate thumbnails of all the pages in a document or to display a page-orientated view of a document in a web browser or mobile device.

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Add word processing to your WPF apps

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:28:00 GMT

Word processor created with TX Text Control .NET for WPF.

TX Text Control .NET for WPF loads, edits and saves Microsoft Word formats and features XML and stylesheet programming.

The following editions are available:

Benefits

Simple deployment of a wide range of word processing features
- Tables, headers and footers, images and stylesheets
- XML and stylesheet programming, save directly to PDF
- Unicode, multi-lingual dialog boxes
Unlimited telephone, chat, e-mail and forum support
Stability backed by a broad client base and many thousand satisfied clients

Features

TX Text Control .NET for WPF Standard, Professional and Enterprise Features

Print and Print Preview - Printing and print preview are available in all editions. A single function call is required to print documents, complete with graphics, tables, page numbers etc.
Bullets and Numbered Lists - Every aspect of bullets and numbered lists can be influenced from program code. Lists can be incremented and numbered automatically.
Multi-Level Undo / Redo - Programmers can add multiple levels of undo and redo to their applications, providing end-users an easy path to correct mistakes they may make.
Zooming - End-users can zoom in and out in steps of 1 percent - from 10 percent up to 400 percent. All word processing functions are available at all zoom levels.
Stylesheet Formatting - Complete separation of content and formatting is offered with this feature. Stylesheets, defining the look and feel of a document, can be accessed and defined from program code.
Spell Checking - Fully-featured, robust and fast spell checking for TX Text Control .NET for WPF applications with TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET for Windows Forms (optional).
Tables - Tables can be inserted into documents. Cell contents can contain virtually any kind of formatting. Borders and shading can be set for individual cells.
Page and Document Settings - Developers can access and define document settings, such as page size, orientation, margins and default printer amongst others from program code.
Character and Paragraph Formatting - Rich character and paragraph formatting is standard in all editions. All formatting options expected from a word processor are available.
Image Formats - Most popular image file formats are supported. Amongst others: TIFF, WMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF.
Table Headers - Any row in a table can be automatically added to the top of each table, right after a page break has occurred.
Loading from and saving to databases - Read from and write to databases, independent of the type of database or interface, using all formats supported by TX Text Control .NET for WPF.
Images - Images can be positioned as characters or given a specific page position. Text flow around images can be set directly from program code. Images are scalable.
Integrated Dialog Boxes - All editions ship with multiple end-user dialog boxes. Dialog boxes can also be accessed from program code and are fully localizable.
Clipboard Operations - All clipboard operations are built in and require no programming effort. ASCII, HTML and RTF are used for maximum interoperability.
Search and Replace - Search and replace functions are available from built-in dialog boxes and programmatically, so that can be used without end-user interaction.
Toolbars - Fully configurable status bar, button bar and ruler can be included in applications by simply connecting them to TX Text Control .NET for WPF.
Text Selections and Character Input - Two classes to manipulate text. The former enables developers to change font characteristics and the later returns information about the current position of the caret.
Control Settings - Control settings are available to set border styles, pagination, scrollbar and many more document appearance and behavior characteristics.
Page Rendering Engine - Use the page rendering engine to save a page as a Bitmap (BMP) at screen resolution or as a fully scalable Windows Metafile (WMF).
Marked Text Fields - Marked text fields enable developers to build applications such as mail merge, where for example, (formatted) text is retrieved from a database.
64 bit Version - 64 bit processors can handle much more memory and larger files than their 32 bit pendants.
Data Binding - Interface controls, such as buttons or dropdown menus of a Ribbon bar can be easily connected to TX Text Control without writing one single line of code.
Programming Paragraphs - Programmatically iterate through and process paragraphs in a document. Available in headers and footers, text frames and main text body.
Line and Character Operations - Line operations allows developers to process text line-by-line, access statistics such as number of characters in a line of text or the number of lines in a document.
Multi-Language Support - All dialog boxes are shipped in English and German, however, they can be translated into any other language using the included resource files.
Unicode - TX Text Control .NET for WPF offers full Unicode support, thus building applications for eastern languages is as simple as for the English / European languages.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - HTML documents can be loaded and saved, just as easily as other file formats. Use TX Text Control .NET for WPF to create true Intranet and Internet applications.
Rich Text Format (RTF) - RTF offers unmatched interoperability with other word applications. Load and save documents to and from RTF.

TX Text Control .NET for WPF Professional and Enterprise Features

Document Sections - Documents can be divided into an unlimited number of different sections, each one of which may be individually formatted.
Hypertext Links - Hyperlinks can be defined within a TX Text Control .NET for WPF document, loaded from and saved to HTML files.
Page Columns - Any number of columns can be inserted into one document. All aspects of the columns can be set with the shipped dialog box and from program code.
Text Frames - Freely placeable and programmable text frames can be inserted and positioned as a character or geometrically relative to a paragraph or a page.
Headers and Footers - Headers and footers are accessible from program code and are loaded from and saved to MS Word or RTF files.
Microsoft Word Merge Fields - Import documents, containing Microsoft Word merge fields into TX Text Control .NET for WPF based applications.
Microsoft Word (DOC) - Load and save documents from and to DOC format.
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Export - Export directly to PDF with no further software or third party printer drivers. Exporting to PDF is as easy as saving to DOC, RTF etc.
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Import - Import PDF documents into TX Text Control .NET for WPF and edit them just like all other word processing formats.
Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX) - Load and save documents from and to Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX) format.

TX Text Control .NET for WPF Enterprise Features

XML Programming - Developers can access a rich set of properties and methods to manipulate XML documents, while end-users can edit XML in a standardized WYSIWYG environment.
Stylesheet Programming - Developers control stylesheets from program code. They can modify a set of predefined stylesheets within a document template or export these stylesheets separately.
Adobe Portable Document Format Archive (PDF/A) Export - Export directly to PDF/A - the self-contained, device independent file format for the long-term archiving of page-oriented documents.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) - XML truly separates content from formatting. TX Text Control .NET for WPF supports XML in conjunction with DTDs and CSS stylesheets.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) - TX Text Control .NET for WPF uses CSS to render XML files. Different views of a document can be created by simply specifying another CSS file.
Document Type Description (DTD) - When working with XML, TX Text Control .NET for WPF loads the corresponding DTD to ensure the end-user enters only data that is permitted in the DTD.

About Text Control (formerly The Imaging Source)

Text Control (formerly The Imaging Source) is a leading manufacturer of word processing components for Microsoft development technologies (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation and ActiveX). As a leader of word processing technologies, its products help thousands of developers add comprehensive word processing functionality to their applications. Using Text Control developer tools, documents can be created, edited, converted and printed. TX Text Control was introduced in 1991 and the company is 100% self-owned and independent of all investor decisions. With more than 45.000 licenses sold, in more than 80 countries, TX Text Control is a market leader in word processing components. A large number of Fortune 500 companies use TX Text Control in their products and it is part of several standard software packages. Text Control GmbH is a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and Embarcadero Technology Partner.

TX Text Control .NET adds data binding

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Adding a link to a document TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms V16 also supports browser applications and adds new spell checker interface.

The following editions are available:

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms is also available as part of the following bundles:

Updates in V16

New Data Binding
TX Text Control .NET 16.0 offers a new concept of binding TextControl to a button bar or any other third-party ribbon bar. The TextControl.InputFormat class represents all formatting attributes at the current text input position. The presentation layer can be abstracted and no additional event handling is required to update the state of specific buttons or menu entries.
Windows Forms Browser Applications
Using TextControl, it is possible build browser-based applications that have exactly the same feature set as applications, built with Windows Forms. This includes loading files from and saving files to the client machine in all supported formats. Using TX Text Control .NET 16.0, you can build a complete word processing application for Internet Explorer. TextControl can be encapsulated in a user control assembly, including an integrated button bar, status bar and the powerful vertical and horizontal ruler bars of TX Text Control. This technology offers true WYSIWYG and a real page view of the document.
New Repeating Table Headers
Tables are often used to display large amounts of data, for example in a sales report. As the maximum length of a table on any one page can only be the maximum height of the page (minus margins and headers and footers), it is necessary to divide the table every time a page break occurs. As of TX Text Control .NET 16.0, any row in a table can be automatically added to the top of each table, right after a page break has occurred. This new feature ensures that tables always have a table header on every page, regardless of how long they may become. Table headers may contain any formatting, text or images that are available in any other cell of a table. Therefore, it is possible, for example, to add a corporate logo to the top left cell of a long table on every page, while the others header cells contain bold textual information.
New Spell Checker Interface
TX Text Control .NET 16.0 provides an entirely new generic spell checker interface that allows any 3rd partly spell checking component to be easily integrated into a TX Text Control based application. The TextControl.SpellCheckText event occurs, if the text of a document has been altered and the spelling of the new text needs to be checked. The event handler receives an argument of type SpellCheckTextEventArgs, which contains data that is related to this event. TX Text Control .NET 16.0 underlines these misspelled words automatically. Misspelled words are added to the MisspelledWords array, which can be used to manipulate the misspelled words in a document's text (remove, get item). This is particularly useful to create your own spell check dialog.
New Text Part Collection
TX Text Control .NET 16.0 offers a number of collections for text, tables and images, which can occur in any part of a document. For example, in headers and footers, in text frames or in the main text of a document. In TX Text Control .NET 16.0, a new meta collection has been introduced that allows the iteration of the above mentioned parts of a document. This is useful to access all available collections via one standard interface. For example, in the case of mail merge, it is necessary to merge data in all text fields, regardless of which part of a document they occur. Potentially, merge fields could occur in headers and footers, in text frames or in the main text. Similarly, when implementing search and replace, all occurrences of the search term must be replaced, irrespective of its specific location within a document. The new TextPartCollection assists in applications, in which such functionality is required.
Improved PDF Import Filter
PDF import has been an integral part of TX Text Control since version 15.0. With each new version of TX Text Control, this import filter has been getting better and better, and can be used in an ever growing number of applications. This trend continues in TX Text Control .NET 16.0. Imported text is no longer arbitrarily imported into text frames, as was the case in the previous version of TX Text Control .NET. Text frames are now used only in the case of complicated word processing features, such as nested tables, formulas etc. For the end user, this has two main advantages: i) The speed at which text is imported has been dramatically improved and ii) the imported text is in one chunk and no longer in a number of different text frames. This makes editing the text after it has been imported much easier.

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TX Text Control V15.1 SP3 released

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Setting table properties with TX Text Control.

TX Text Control gives your application the ability to read, edit, and create documents in industry standard formats like MS Word DOCX, DOC, RTF, HTML and XML. It includes the ability to export all documents to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.

The following .NET editions are available:

The following ActiveX editions are available:

The following .NET and ActiveX bundle editions are available:

Updates in V15.1 SP3

The following bugs have been fixed:

Memory error on pasting very specific long documents
Text Filters - RTF -Specific documents can't be loaded and cause a crash of TX Text Control
Text Filters - RTF - Specific documents can't be loaded and cause a crash of TX Text Control
Image Filters - PNG import - problem with 8 bit PNGs with alpha channel
Text Filters - PDF/A export - Missing end tag in meta data
Text Filters - HTML import - Content of span and font tags inside pre tags is ignored
Text Filters - RTF export - FT_STANDARD-type fields are not exported correctly
Text Filters - HTML import - TX Text Control discards content of table header cells
Text Filters - HTML export - Inline styles get lost
Text Filters - HTML export - Nested tables cause 01-1D09
Image Filters - JPG export -Image conversion swaps colors of internal image data
Text Filters - HTML import - Two adjacent empty links at the beginning of a document cause error

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TX Text Control adds Silverlight sample

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:55:00 GMT

A Silverlight 4.0 Document Browser created with TX Text Control .NET Server.

Create thumbnails from MS Word compatible documents and present them in a Silverlight 4.0 carousel application.

The Imaging Source has released a new live sample that shows how to render document pages in a Silverlight 4.0 application:

http://labs.textcontrol.com/live/server/silverlight/

This sample ASP.NET Web application uses TX Text Control .NET Server's Page Rendering Engine to create thumbnails from MS Word compatible documents that are presented in a Silverlight 4.0 carousel application.

The Silverlight application requests the images from a WCF Web Service. This WCF Web Service uses TX Text Control .NET Server's Page Rendering Engine to create high resolution images that are rendered by Silverlight using a simple System.Windows.Controls.Image control.

TX Text Control .NET Server

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TX Text Control V15.1 SP2 released

Wed, 19 May 2010 18:05:00 GMT

Defining the properties of a hyperlink with TX Text Control .NET.

The following .NET editions are available:

The following ActiveX editions are available:

Updates in V15.1 SP2

The following bugs were fixed:

Drag and Drop - If text is dropped onto a text field which is Editable = false, the text is deleted.
Headers and Footers - Occasional problems when changing headers and footers programmatically.
Image Filters - HTML export: Document containing reference to missing image causes error when saving to HTML.
Image Filters - IC: JPG files lacking resolution information are loaded incorrectly.
Image Filters - Image not correctly displayed, if it has been inserted as shape, but should be displayed inline.
Images - TX Text Control crashes, if an image is moved and undo called.
Images - Occasional problems when moving an image in text.
Images - ImageCollection.Remove removes previous character instead of image.
Images - Image references in TX Text Control 10.0 documents are not loaded by IC.
Other - Ctrl + Backspace stops at paragraph.
Printing - SetViewportEx does not work in TX Text Control 15.0.
Refresh - Refresh problem between pages.
Scrolling - If the current pages are requested, the scroll location changes.
Scrolling - Horizontal scrollbar is visible in Normal view mode, although Scrollbars have been deactivated
Text Fields - Text can be pasted to DocumentTargets.
Text Filters - PDF import formatting problems.
Text Filters - Loading a specific PDF file occurs error 01-2C17.
Text Filters - Error loading PDF - using "Fl" as short for "FlateDecode" was not supported.
Text Filters - DOC import: Missing table formatting.
Text Filters - HTML import: embedded image in link causes 01-241F.
Text Filters - HTML export: Documents with text frames containing hyperlinks can cause 1D09.
Text Filters - RTF export: OLE object without metafile causes 1D09.
Text Filters - RTF text is not correctly centered as in TX Text Control 13.0.
Text Filters - HTML export: base64 data can get truncated.
Text Filters - DOC import: Rectangles with zero height or width generate export error in other formats.
Text Filters - RTF import: Empty section and a bookmark at the end of a document cause error.
Text Filters - RTF import: Missing link targets.
Text Filters - HTML import: White space character between hyperlinks vanishes.
Text Filters - DOC import: Hyperlink fragment strings with SPACE characters are abbreviated.
Text Filters - If a document contains images and is saved to PDF in a loop, a memory leak occurs.
Text Filters - HTML: Pasted hyperlinks are exported twice to HTML.
Text Filters - RTF import: nested table inside field not read correctly.
Text Filters - DOCX import: Unable to read document generated by Open XML SDK 2.0.
Text Filters - HTML import: some MS Word 2003 documents are not loaded correctly.
Text Filters - HTML import: Character entities without semicolon cause 1D09.
Text Filters - HTML import: content of < td > and < tr > tags in wrong places is ignored.
Text Filters - Hyperlinks copied and pasted into TX Text Control are saved twice in HTML.
Text Filters - HTML import: Paragraphs do not have top and bottom margins by default.
Text Filters - HTML import: Hidden list items are shown or cause empty lines.
Text Filters - RTF import: Linked image not shown, if link broken.
Text Filters - RTF export: Properties of paragraphs inside text fields in wrong place.
Text Formatting - Display problems on pages which end with a paragraph character near the PageMargins.Bottom.
Text Frames - Object positions are wrong after changing the insertion mode programatically.
Text Frames - If EditMode equals ReadAndSelect, text in text frames can still be edited.

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TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET patched

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:44:00 GMT

Spelling suggestions displayed by TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET.

TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET lets you integrate high performance spell checking into your TX Text Control .NET applications. It supports Windows Forms and ASP.NET and includes multiple dictionaries (UK and US English, Combined English, German (old and new spelling), Australian, Canadian). TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET includes integrated dialog and as-you-type checking and is completely royalty-free.

Updates in V15.1 SP1

Bug Fixes

Underline - Refresh underlines when changing Ignore* properties that relate to text fields
Property - RemoveTextComponent missing in RapidSpellDialog
Setup - Concurrent licensing issue with both 15.0 and 15.1 installed

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TX Text Control ActiveX SP1 released

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Defining table frame and color properties.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V15.1 SP1

Link targets malfunctioning. Fixed.
TIFF file import shows 03-0C02 error. Fixed.
RTF import: table row properties after table rows break tables. Fixed.

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TX Text Control .NET SP1 released

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Defining the properties of a hyperlink.

TX Text Control .NET includes the ability to export all documents to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V15.1 SP1

Performance issues on loading and saving documents in a loop. Fixed.
PDF export: Link targets malfunctioning. Fixed.
TIFF file import shows 03-0C02 error. Fixed.
RTF import: table row properties after table rows break tables. Fixed.

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TX Text Control updated to V15.1

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:11:00 GMT

Configuring a hyperlink in an RTF file with TX Text Control.

Latest version adds built-in drag-and-drop support, skinnable controls and unlimited zoom.

TX Text Control includes the ability to export all documents to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.

The following editions are available:

TX Text Control .NET editions

TX Text Control ActiveX editions

TX Text Control Bundle (includes both .NET and ActiveX editions)

Updates in V15.1

Display Colors
Skinnable Controls - All colors TX Text Control uses for the display elements can now be changed.
Fully featured built-in drag and drop support
Drag and drop text from other applications and move text within a document.
Image and TextFrame Positioning
The insertion mode and positioning of inserted images can be changed programmatically.
Saving Images
Image formats are automatically maintained or can be adjusted programmatically using the SaveSettings class.
Inserting Images from Memory
A new Image constructor accepts a System.Drawing.Image object, which is used to initialize the TXTextcontrol.Image object.
Image Rendering
Scaled images are rendered smoothly in version 15.1.
Unlimited Zoom Factor
The ZoomFactor of a TextControl is no longer limited to 400 percent, when the ViewMode property has been set to PageView or Normal. For the other modes the zoom factor is limited to 400 percent.
Mouse Wheel
The functionality of the mouse wheel has been extended. Pressing the SHIFT key scrolls the visual part of the document horizontally and pressing the CONTROL key zooms the document.
Supported Fonts
The new GetSupportedFonts method returns an array of strings specifying the names of all currently supported fonts.

For more information visit:
http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/corporate/press/archive/20091205/