TextDynamic
Offer your customers word processing software and PDF generation.
Published by WPCubed
Distributed by ComponentSource since 2002
Prices from: $ 812.00 Version: 7.84 Updated: Jan 25, 2023
Offer your customers word processing software and PDF generation.
TextDynamic is a royalty free word processing and reporting control which can be embedded into applications to create text in code, to offer the end user WYSIWYG editing features and to convert document formats, such as RTF to HTML or RTF to PDF or DOCX to PDF. Unlike wRTF2PDF / TextDynamic Server it is a visual component, it displays a word processor inside your application to let the user edit the text.
What you can do with TextDynamic
Where you can use TextDynamic
Features:
Optional Reporting
Most reporting tools work with page layouts. This means you may place graphics at exact positions on a form and when the report is created it will exactly look as the designed forms.
This approach is often very good, but in some cases you want the text created by the reporter to be editable. The mentioned approach has a problem with this - while it is sometimes possible to create RTF documents with the reporting tool, they are not really "editable" - the text has been broken up into the tiniest pieces - just single text boxes. Usually the RTF export is optimized to be best viewed in MS Word only.
With the TextDynamic report a text file (RTF or WPT format) is created which allows full editing, including changing of the page size, and other operations which make the re-pagination of the text necessary.
An example developed in MS Access is discussed in the provided developer manual to demonstrate it. However, it is not limited for use with Access. Since the data is provided through an event it can work with any database that your development language supports, including custom made databases and calculated data.
Benefits
All the text features you need:
TextDynamic includes features not found in some other competing products. For example the split screen feature, paragraph styles, text wrap around images, numbering, header+footer, the mail merge and HTML import/export. The standard edition now also includes DocX support plus footnotes and columns.
Maximum performance when working with documents:
TextDynamic .NET assembly has been developed in C#. This allows a tight integration into .NET applications - it is not required to register any OCX. Since word processing requires the allocation of a large number of small memory blocks plus fast array handling WPCubed implemented it into a native windows, highly optimized and fast DLL. The results show a 220 page RTF file (8MB) is loaded in about 5 seconds on a main stream notebook. (Pentium M1.6 Ghz)
Maximum flexibility for configuring the user interface:
TextDynamic comes with several tool panels arranged around the editor window. But the GUI can be completely configured, including the ability to change the images. It is also possible to update and localize the hint messages and the texts used by the dialogs. Switching languages at runtime is possible as well. The user interface is configured using an XML script. That script, together with the images for the buttons, is loaded from a special package file – there is also an application included to edit that file. The package file used by the GUI can be protected with a password.
Easy to use
When you start with TextDynamic you will get impressive results in minutes. But if you need special features you will find out that it does so much more. Its mail merge method handles RTF and HTML texts and also images. You can add support for styles or footnotes to your application. High quality and fast PDF export is optionally available, no 3rdparty product or printer driver is required. Spellcheck is also available – very fast and effective since implemented in the engine.
Easy to understand API
More than 10 years of experience in text component design helped WPCubed to create this text control API. Using a set of interfaces you can create text in code, modify the GUI, create e-mails and PDF.
Available Options:
Note for Web Server Use
If you need the TextDynamic features on your (Web) server please check out the ASP product wRTF2PDF. It includes almost the complete TextDynamic API to create and manipulate text.