ComponentSource Topic | TX Text Control ActiveX Standard

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.

About Text Control (formerly The Imaging Source)

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 .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.

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 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.

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.

About Text Control

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.

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 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

About The Imaging Source

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.

About The Imaging Source

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.

About The Imaging Source

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/