TX Text Control 17.0 released

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:

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

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.

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.