TX Text Control : PDF/A

Exporting documents as an ISO-standardized PDF/A document

Christopher Krause — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:05:00 GMT

With TX Text Control 15.0, a PDF/A export functionality was introduced. PDF/A is a format that has been created and standardized for long-term archiving of electronic documents. Using TX Text Control, you don't need separate third-party software, printer driver or an additional component module.

TX Text Control is your ALL-IN-ONE word processing component that doesn't consist of separate components developed by different companies or teams. You'll get everything from the same vendor in order to integrate word processing very smoothly.

What is a PDF/A document?

The created PDF must be 100% self-contained. That implies that all information that is required to render the PDF must be embedded. That includes all used fonts of the document. TX Text Control provides a special PDF/A edit mode, so that users are only able to pick the supported fonts from the drop down box in the button bar. Not every font can be embedded using PDF/A for a couple of reasons: The license of the font forbids embedding or a device dependent font is used.

Additionally, TX Text Control is able to substitute unsupported fonts automatically and it provides an event where you can replace the fonts based on your own logic. Only this way guarantees a smooth export to this special Adobe PDF format.

Furthermore, audio and video content, encryption, Javascript and executable code is not allowed. The PDF/A standard is based on the PDF Reference Version 1.4 from Adobe Systems Inc. and has been published as an ISO standard on October 1, 2005.

How to create a PDF/A document using TX Text Control?

Generally, you can simply use the Save method to export a valid PDF/A document. TX Text Control's FontSettings must be adjusted in order to allow only embeddable fonts to be used. If the document already contains not embeddable fonts and the FontSettings.AdaptFontEvent property has been set to true, an event is fired for each not supported font. All fonts can be replaced automatically, so that a valid PDF/A can be exported easily. If you start typing a new document with the goal of exporting it as PDF/A, the following steps or settings are required:

* The TextControl's ViewMode property must be set PageView.
* FontSettings.EmbeddableFontsOnly must be set to true.
* Save the document using TextControl.Save.

Conclusion: Using TX Text Control, creating PDF/A documents is as easy as exporting DOCX, DOC or RTF documents. No third-party software is required.

Find out more here:

TX Text Control .NET
TX Text Control .NET Server

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 - The all-in-one word processing component

Christopher Krause — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:59:00 GMT

Many developers need different components to solve special application requirements. The reason is that components are often specialized for one requirement, for example converting documents. Thus developers would need more than one software tool to meet all their word processing requirements.

TX Text Control was never devided into different products. This was done to offer developers an all-in-one word processing component to create, edit, modify and convert documents between different formats.

Import formats:

DOCX, DOC, RTF, PDF, XHTML, XML, ANSI, Unicode

Export Formats:

DOCX, DOC, RTF, PDF, PDF/A, XHTML, XML, GIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, WMF, TIFF

TX Text Control offers all the features developers expect in a high end word processing package like sections, page columns, nested tables, text frames, headers, footers, hyperlinks, bullets, structured numbered lists, zoom, page view, images and real WYSIWYG.

A wide range of applications can be solved with one product:

- Report generation
- Client based document conversion
- Rich WYSIWYG word processing
- Document merging
- File format converters
- True WYSIWYG word processing in the browser
- Server document repository
- Multi-user, online collaboration
- Intranet/Internet word processing
- Invoice and quotation generation
- Centralized document creation
- SOAP and REST based web services
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- On demand, template-based mail-merge
- Programmatic document modification
- Merge Microsoft Word templates
- Create print-ready PDF files

and many more...

Find out more here:

TX Text Control .NET
TX Text Control .NET Server

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 15.0 released

Christopher Krause — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:38:00 GMT

One of the new features of the components for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 is an extension of the existing Adobe PDF export. In version 15.0, TX Text Control is able to create and save ISO conforming PDF/A documents. In recent years, PDF/A has been getting stronger in the electronic archiving market. Using TX Text Control 15.0, PDF/A documents can be automatically created or converted from other supported formats. In addition to the PDF export, TX Text Control 15.0 implements a PDF import technology that allows developers to extract the text, do a full text search or to convert them to other supported formats.

Additionaly, a new concept for web-based document viewing and forms processing in ASP.NET was implemented. Using TX Text Control .NET Server 15.0, MS Word compatible forms can be displayed and completed in any browser. The completed form can be processed server-side, printed or saved as Adobe PDF document.

The development team also improved the core functionality of TX Text Control. Page columns and legal numbering are available in this version of the successful word processing component. All documents can be imported and exported from and to Office Open XML (DOCX), MS Word (DOC) and Rich Text Format (RTF). Additionally, valid XHTML documents can be created in version 15.

An overview of all new features can be found here:

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

TX Text Control 15.0 is coming in quarter 2 of 2009

Christopher Krause — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:27:00 GMT

We are proud to announce that TX Text Control 15.0 is going to be released in quarter 2 of next year. This will be a very feature-rich release of TX Text Control .NET and ActiveX.

One of the new features of the components is an extension of the existing Adobe PDF export. In version 15.0, TX Text Control will have the ability to create and save ISO conforming PDF/A documents. In recent years, PDF/A has been gaining popularity in the electronic archiving market. Using TX Text Control 15.0, PDF/A documents can be automatically created or converted from other supported formats.

Additionally, we will present a completely new concept of completing forms on the web in a true WYSIWYG manner. Using TX Text Control 15.0, MS Word compatible forms can be displayed and completed in any browser, without the need for any plug-in or download: Just pure HTML. The completed form can be processed server-side, printed or saved as an Adobe PDF document.

Our development team also improved the core functionality of TX Text Control. Page columns and structured numbered lists are planned for the next version of the successful word processing component. All documents can be imported and exported to and from Office Open XML (DOCX), MS Word (DOC) and Rich Text Format (RTF). Additionally, a valid XHTML export is going to be supported in version 15.

You can start your development with TX Text Control now, as TX Text Control 15.0 will be backwards compatible. You can purchase TX Text Control 14.0 Subscription now to get version 15.0 for free when it is released.

More information here: TX Text Control

The Imaging Source announces its PDF/A activities

Christopher Krause — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:38:00 GMT

The Microsoft Visual Studio industry partner, and software component vendor, The Imaging Source announces its activities in the PDF/A market. With the next version of the word processing component TX Text Control, PDF/A documents can be created or converted from the industry standard formats Office Open XML (DOCX), MS Word (DOC) and Rich Text Format (RTF).

The ISO 19005-1:2005 standard defines a format for long-term electronic archiving of documents. This standard is becoming more and more important due to legal provisions and uniform requirements. Additionally, it enables software companies to promote a supported standard to create PDF documents.

The software component, TX Text Control, enables developers to easily integrate PDF/A creation or conversion into their business applications. Validity and verifiability is very important when creating PDF documents. Using TX Text Control, developers can be sure they are creating valid PDF/A documents by using a widely spread, reusable software component.

The final version is announced for the first quarter of 2009. More information at:

TX Text Control