TX Text Control Server for ASP.NET (incl. Windows Forms)

What’s new in TX Text Control Server for ASP.NET (incl. Windows Forms) 17.0 SP1? - The following bugs were fixed:

• 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 be broken, 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 will not be ignored correctly.
• RTF import: Document causes 01-1D09 error or a program termination.
• ComboBoxes are too small, shifted to the right.
• HTML import: Selection.Load always fails.
• Cell.Select selects complete table row.
• Vertical text alignment can not 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 time the 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 can not 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 will be changed, if zoom values are set to random numbers.

What’s new in TX Text Control Server for ASP.NET (incl. Windows Forms) 17.0?

• Text Selections - Text selections in tables have been extended so that it is now possible to select table columns and rectangular areas of table cells. Table columns can be formatted and copied to the clipboard. The TableColumn.Select method has been added to support this feature programmatically. Text selections are now displayed with a transparent blue bitmap. The new SelectionViewMode property can be used to display selections with the classic selection view mode.
• Merged Table Cells - Table cells can be merged with the new Table.MergeCells method. The method merges all selected cells to a single cell which has the same width and the same content as the original cells. The new Table.SplitCells method can be used to split previously merged cells. Table cells can only be merged, if more than one cell is selected, and if the selection is in a single table. The Table.CanMergeCells property can be used to check whether cells can be merged.
• Named Table Cells - Each table cell can have a name which can be used to store any string data associated with the cell. The new TableCell.Name property can be used to get or to set a cell's name. The name is stored only, when the TXTextControl file format is used.
• Colored Table Lines - Table lines can be colored. Each line of a table cell can have a different color. All text filters and the TXTextControl file format have been extended so that this feature can be exchanged with other applications. The TableCellFormat class has been extended with the LeftBorderColor, TopBorderColor, RightBorderColor and BottomBorderColor properties to set these attributes programmatically. Colored table lines can also be set with the built-in dialogbox for setting table attributes.
• Page Borders - Borders can now be defined for each page of a document section. A page border can have a top, left, right or bottom line or a combination of these lines. The line width and the color can be defined for each line separately. For each line a distance can be specified, which is either a distance to the edge of the page or to the text. The page border can surround the text including page headers and footers or only the text of the page. The border can be defined for the first page, for all pages or beginning with the second page. The new PageBorder class represents all these attributes of a page border. The SectionFormat class has been extended with the new PageBorder property to can set all these attributes programmatically. The page settings dialog box has also been extended so that an end-user can define a page border.
• Digital Signatures - PDF files can be saved digitally signed with an X.509 certificate. The SaveSettings class has been extended with the SaveSettings.DigitalSignature property to set a certificate for a saving process. The DigitalSignature class used with this property represents the X.509 certificate and all other information necessary to digitally sign the file.
• Spell checking - TextControl now supports the TXSpellChecker component, which can be used to get and to correct misspelled words in the current document. This component can be connected with a TextControl through the TextControl.SpellChecker property and must be activated with the TextControl.IsSpellCheckingEnabled property. The component handles the TextControl.SpellCheckText event internally and provides a dialog box and a context menu to correct misspelled words. The Dialog can be invoked with the TextControl.SpellCheckDialog method and the context menu is opened when the end-user right-clicks a misspelled word.
• HTML Format - The TX Text Control HTML import filter now uses the parsing rules described in the W3C specification of HTML5.

TX Text Control Server for ASP.NET (incl. Windows Forms) Key features

• Supports XML, PDF, CSS, RTF, HTML, DOC, ANSI, Unicode and many more
• Images formats: JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF, BMP and TIF
• Complex nested tables, headers, footers, text frames, text fields, bullets, numbered lists, images
• Password secured, encrypted Adobe PDF documents with different access permissions
• Object-oriented classes, designed for Visual Studio .NET (.NET Framework 2.0 ready)
• Generate press-ready PDF files directly on the HTTP server
• Free technical support included for TX Text Control Server from highly qualified engineers

TX Text Control Server Applications

Document conversion - One of the key features of TX Text Control .NET Server is its wide support of word processing formats (e.g. RTF, DOC, HTML, XML, PDF) and image file formats (e.g. GIF, PNG, JPG). This feature makes TX Text Control .NET Server ideally suited to network-based, document conversion applications.

For example, consider the following areas:

• Conversion and modification of different document types to a standardized style
• Merger of various document types into one unified document
• Batch document conversion without user interaction
• Microsoft Word to PDF document conversion (no 3rd party software necessary)

Document modification - You can use TX Text Control .NET Server to assemble word processing documents from disparate data sources (e.g. end user data from a web form, databases or physical files). Inputting this information into TX Text Control .NET Server, you can create documents and save to any supported format (see above).

For example, consider the following areas in which TX Text Control .NET Server is commonly deployed to modify documents:

• Populate pre-saved templates (DOC, RTF, HTML) with data (XML, database)
• Build mail merge or mass-mail applications
• Generate customized documents on-the-fly with 'fresh' data
• Develop aesthetically pleasing and accurate reports

Document creation - In a modern corporate environment, business processes demand that information is immediately accessible to employees inside an enterprise network and to workers on the road. Typically, this information needs to be continually up-to-date and available in a multitude of formats (such as HTML, XML, DOC, RTF, GIF or JPG).

TX Text Control .NET Server is ideally suited to building applications that have this requirement. Consider the following applications:

• Robust PDF generation, following corporate design rules
• Simultaneous creation of documents on the server
• Report generation using data from a database and disparate XML files
• Integration into enterprise workflow applications