TX Text Control

SP1 for TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.1 released

Christopher Krause — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:59:00 GMT

Today, Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.1 was released.

Please take a look at the updated known issues list at:

Known Issues and Fixes in TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.1

You can download the service pack at:

Service-Packs

As ever, our support team is waiting to answer your questions. Full contact details at:

Support

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

Featured project: Visual C++ MFC wrapper for TX Text Control

Christopher Krause — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:33:00 GMT

An enthusiastic user of TX Text Control recently published an open source project that provides a Microsoft CWnd-based wrapper for TX Text Control ActiveX 15.1.

Generally, ActiveX controls can be easily imported into MFC-based projects, but these wrappers around ActiveX controls are incomplete. This project contains wrappers for the TXTextControl, TXButtonBar, TXRulerBar and TXStatusBar. The TXWrapper class itself acts like a parent window for the TX Text Control components. Additionally, some helper classes and a sample application is part of the project.

If you plan to use TX Text Control ActiveX in a Visual C++ MFC project, I can really recommend this wrapper. It is all you need to start a TX Text Control word processing application using VC++.

Please visit the project's website on SourceForge to learn more about the wrapper or to download the files. All further contributions are welcome.

C++ MFC wrapper for TX Text Control

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

"Document Automation Alliance": TX Text Control announces joint venture with GrapeCity (FarPoint)

Christopher Krause — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:55:00 GMT

TX Text Control and GrapeCity just released the partner website www.document-automation.net that provides information about the new joint venture Document Automation Alliance.

The Document Automation Alliance is a joint venture between TX Text Control® and GrapeCity® (FarPoint); two companies that provide market-leading products and innovation in document processing.

The idea is to provide developers a one-stop competence center to gain information on how to effectively automate Microsoft® Office documents without attempting to deploy Microsoft® Office.

Together, TX Text Control® and GrapeCity® (FarPoint) have nearly 40 years of experience in the creation, modification and conversion of documents.

Read more about this joint venture on our dedicated website:

www.document-automation.net

Meet TX Text Control at the Visual Studio 2010 launch

Christopher Krause — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:50:00 GMT

Preperations are moving at a fast pace and we are looking forward to presenting our latest developments and future plans at the largest and long awaited .NET conference:

The Visual Studio 2010 launch in Las Vegas, USA.

Developers, top speakers, such as Scott Guthrie and leading component vendors will gather at the world famous Bellagio for the Microsoft Visual Studio Conference & Expo.

If you plan to visit this conference, do not forget to stop by at our booth. We really look forward to meeting you in person.

For more information visit TX Text Control

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

LiveDocx - Template-based document creation

Christopher Krause — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:21:00 GMT

LiveDocx allows developers to create word processing documents by combining user-defined Microsoft Word templates with data from disparate data sources, such as XML files and databases. It is typically used to create professional, print-ready word processing documents in DOCX, DOC, RTF and PDF.

LiveDocx is a Web Service that can be easily integrated into any web application without installing or configuring any software on your server. Currently, the following programming languages are supported:

- ASP.NET
- PHP

As LiveDocx is strictly based on open standards, it is simple to add support for more programming languages. As long as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is available on the client-side system, LiveDocx runs on all operating systems and in all programming languages.

Typical Applications:

Using LiveDocx, developers can merge data with Microsoft Word templates into one print-ready, word processing document.

For example, the sales department of an enterprise can access constantly fluctuating sales data that is stored in a centralized location and combine it with a richly formatted template to programmatically produce a set of sales reports. The resulting word processing documents can be sent by e-mail, fax or snail mail to their recipients.

Similarly, telephone companies can deploy LiveDocx to generate customer invoices. All connection information and billing information is stored in one centralized customer database. Selected data is assigned to LiveDocx and combined with a standardized template to produce the resulting invoice.

Summary

- Populate templates with data from any data source (DB, XML, CSV).
- Build mail merge or mass-mail applications.
- Generate customized documents on-the-fly with constantly changing data.
- Generate print ready PDF documents, with multiple security settings.
- Share your created documents or
- Integrate them into your web site using the LiveDocx widget.

Advantages of the LiveDocx Client/Server Architecture

As LiveDocx reduces document generation to the absolute lowest common denominator, its deployment also lowers the total cost of document creation. Developers no longer need to worry about installing and maintaining 3rd party tools or applications on their servers. They simply call LiveDocx over the Internet, using a very simple API.

Typically, printer drivers, fonts and licenses need to be installed, maintained and administered when programmatically generating word processing documents on a server. Using LiveDocx, this load is shifted from the developer to a team of professional server administrators.

Developers are thus free to concentrate on building world-class applications and not be hassled by the mundane work associated with sever administration.

Thanks to its modulate and open architecture, LiveDocx can be easily integrated into existing work flow systems, using most programming languages.

Summary

- Deploy in a multi-programing language environment.
- Substantially reduce server load and consequently total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Simple integration into existing systems.
- Decrease server maintenance.

Find out more here: LiveDocx

Meet TX Text Control at BASTA! Spring 2010 in Germany

Christopher Krause — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:33:00 GMT

In February (22nd - 26th), we will be attending BASTA! Spring 2010 in Darmstadt, Germany.

Interesting speakers, industry leading component vendors and highly professional visitors are expected on one of the largest .NET conferences in Europe.

We will be there with our own booth to show you our latest developments and future plans. If you plan to visit this conference, make sure you stop by our booth. I would be glad to meet you in person.

More information about the conference and all sessions can be found on the official conference website:

BASTA! Spring 2010

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

TX Text Control sponsores the first Columbia Code Camp

Christopher Krause — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:58:00 GMT

The Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild is hosting the first Columbia Code Camp this month.

We are proud to help the organizers by sponsoring them.

The code camp takes place on the campus of the University of South Carolina on Saturday, January 30th starting at 8:00 AM.

More information about the code camp can be found on the dedicated website:

http://www.columbiacodecamp.com

More information about TX Text Control here.

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

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Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control 15.1 released

Christopher Krause — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:45:00 GMT

Recently, the following service packs were released:

- Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control .NET Server 15.1
- Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control .NET 15.1

- Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control ActiveX Server 15.1
- Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control ActiveX 15.1

Please take a look at the updated known issues list at:
Known Issues

You can download the service pack at:
Service-Pack

As ever, our support team is waiting to answer your questions. Full contact details at:
Support

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

Improved PDF import functionality in TX Text Control 15.1

Christopher Krause — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:57:00 GMT

In version 15.0, TX Text Control released the first PDF import filter. The idea was to provide the functionality to import PDF documents and do further processing on such documents. The first version was able to extract the text from PDF files. Even paragraphs were recognized and the text frame mode was able to generate good looking documents.

If you don't know the PDF format in detail, you might wonder why it is so tricky to load this format. To understand this, imagine a PDF document like a real executable file in contrast to the source code.

An RTF document is like the source code. You can open it easily in a text editor and if you understand RTF tags, you can make changes to the document.

Whereas the PDF document can be compared to the true Win32 EXE which can't be easily decompiled. To understand what the EXE does or how it is implemented, you need to reverse engineer the executable. The same is valid for PDF documents: The Adobe PDF format is a low-level output format and was designed to be printed - not to be imported again. In most cases it contains only geometrical information about the single characters. You have to calculate which characters belong to a sentence, a paragraph or a text frame.

So, what has been improved?

Aside from new image formats that are now supported, the most impressive part is the grouping of created text frames. Have a look at a typical PDF page:

It consists of a heading, an introduction text and a table with 3 columns. The following screenshots show the results from version 15.0 in comparison to version 15.1:

As you can see in the 1. screenshot, all text areas are inserted as single text frames to realize the distances between the paragraphs. The problem with this is that you can't extract the text from all of these frames using copy and paste. With version 15.1 (2. screenshot), all text frames are grouped into one large frame and the distances are realized using paragraph distances, specific line spacing and indents.

The tabular data in the PDF is now realized using tab positions and not single text frames which makes the text readable and reusable. The following illustration shows the same document in TX Text Control 15.1 with visible control characters where the line spacing and tab positions are highlighted:

Find out more about the new features of TX Text Control here: What's New in TX Text Control 15.1

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

TX Text Control 15.1 released

Christopher Krause — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:49:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce that we have just released the following products:

- TX Text Control .NET Server 15.1
- TX Text Control .NET 15.1

- TX Text Control ActiveX Server 15.1
- TX Text Control ActiveX 15.1

TX Text Control 15.1 is all you need to add advanced word processing to your client and server applications.

Learn more on the TX Text Control 15.1 micro-site:

New Features

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.0 released

Christopher Krause — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:03:00 GMT

Today, Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.0 was released.

Please take a look at the updated known issues list at:

Known Issues and Fixes in TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.0

You can download the service pack at:

Service-Packs

As ever, our support team is waiting to answer your questions. Full contact details at:

Support

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

Creating mail merge templates including a preview functionality

Christopher Krause — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:44:00 GMT

Creating mail merge templates including a preview functionality

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Because of the new FieldAdapter class, MS Word compatible merge fields can be inserted easily into a document. Using the Windows Forms version of TX Text Control, a template designer can be easily built and deployed royalty-free.

In the shipped samples, TX Text Control demonstrates how to create templates by inserting the fields directly using the ApplicationField collection. This article describes how to create templates using the adapter fields. Additionally, it shows how to preview the template with the real data coming from a database.

This approach follows the same logic of creating a template like the shipped 'closed source' TX Template Designer:

- Open a database

- Select a table

- Insert fields

Details:

1. First, click on Open Database... and browse for an XML database file. A sample file comes with this project. If the XML database could be loaded properly, the contained tables are listed in the first combobox.

2. Select one of the listed tables. All column names will be added to the items of the second combobox.

3. The column names are used as field names of the inserted merge fields. If an item is selected, click Add field to insert the merge field into the document.

4. The loaded database is used to get the possible fields that can be used in the template. Additionally, the contained data rows can be used to preview the merged document. Click on Preview to enable the preview functionality.

Using the arrow buttons, it is possible to navigate through the data rows of the current table to preview all rows. You are able to use this nice approach as your basis for your own template designer.

Download the project and sample database file here (Visual Studio 2008 and at least a TX Text Control .NET 15.0 trial version is required):

Download Sample

About TX Text Control

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:

Phone: +1 704-370-0110

Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:

Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:

Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

New brochure: TX Text Control executive overview

Christopher Krause — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:28:00 GMT

TX Text Control just published a new executive overview brochure for TX Text Control.

It gives a quick overview of the different products, our support services and existing customers.

Download as PDF

About TX Text Control

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

TX Text Control Developer Overview Reference Card

Christopher Krause — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:52:00 GMT

TX Text Control is currently creating new graphical overview diagrams of the TX Text Control API. This first graphic is a general overview of TX Text Control in the well known Microsoft style. It gives developers a quick overview of the functionality, supported IDEs or platforms.

Download as Adobe PDF

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508

Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control 15.0 released

Christopher Krause — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT

Today, the following service packs were released:

* Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control .NET Server 15.0
* Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control .NET 15.0
* Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control ActiveX Server 15.0
* Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control ActiveX 15.0

Please take a look at the updated known issues list at:

Known Issues

You can download the service pack at:

Service-Packs

As ever, our support team is waiting to answer your questions. Full contact details at:

Support

About TX Text Control:

TX Text Control was originally released in 1991, since then more than 40,000 copies have been sold. Starting off as a single, small DLL, TX Text Control has made its way through 16-bit DLL and VBX versions to today‘s Enterprise edition with its .NET and ActiveX components. The recent addition to the family, TX Text Control .NET Server, offers all of TX Text Control advanced word processing functionality in an easy-to-use server-side .NET component. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.

Contact Informations:

support@textcontrol.com

North & South America:
Phone: +1 704-370-0110
Phone: +1 877-462-4772 (toll free)

Europe:
Phone: +49 421 335 910

Asia Pacific:
Phone: +886 2-2797-8508