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TX Text Control .NET Changelog

What's new in TX Text Control .NET 32.0

Sep 13, 2023
  • SVG Page Export:
  • Use version 32.0 to export individual pages or the entire document as scalable vector graphics.
  • Footnotes:
  • Insert MS Word-compatible footnotes in documents.
  • Editable [Normal] Stylesheet:
  • Stylesheets in TX Text Control are a powerful tool for maintaining consistency and ensuring that documents look and feel professional.
  • File IO Dialog Improvements:
  • The internal file dialogs have been enhanced with options to open all supported file types.

New in TX Text Control .NET 31.0 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • .NET 5, 6 and 7 Compatible:
  • Create .NET Windows Forms Apps with .NET 6 and .NET 7 with full Visual Studio 2022 support.
  • .NET Core
  • NuGet Package Support:
  • TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 31.0 provides NuGet packages for an easy installation, deployment and update process.
  • Insert Native Signature Fields:
  • Insert signature fields, using the document editor, and request signatures in PDFs, using Acrobat Reader, or using the document viewer.
  • New Form Field Dialog Boxes:
  • TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 31.0 implements new dialog boxes for form fields to adjust the default form field settings.

New in TX Text Control .NET 30.0 (Dec 5, 2021)

  • Comments:
  • Enable professional, MS Word compatible collaboration features in your applications.
  • Different authors can add comments to all text ranges and attach MS Word compatible comments to tracked changes. Comments can be imported and exported from and to MS Word formats including Office Open XML, DOC and RTF.
  • Visual sidebar to edit comments and replies
  • Fully featured ribbon group for comments
  • Add comments from context menu and ribbon bar
  • Link comments to tracked changes
  • Build Windows Forms Applications with .NET:
  • TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 30.0 supports .NET 4.0, 4.5 and .NET 4.8 to create Windows Forms applications in Visual Studio 2019 and 2022.
  • Build Windows Forms Applications with .NET:
  • TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 30.0 supports .NET 4.0, 4.5 and .NET 4.8 to create Windows Forms applications in Visual Studio 2019 and 2022.
  • Extended Character Attributes:
  • Stretch and scale text and spacing of your text.
  • TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 30.0 supports extended character attributes such as subscript, superscript, text effects, character spacing and scaling. The font and formatting style dialog boxes have been extended to reflect these new text formatting features.
  • Change the spacing between characters
  • Stretch and scale text horizontally
  • Automatic subscript and superscript
  • When using automatic sub- and superscript, the font is scaled and moved above or below the baseline with values defined through the used font. Some fonts do not explicitly define these values. In these cases, TX Text Control uses a scaling of 50% and moving of 40% above and 15% below the baseline.
  • Text Frame Styles:
  • Set the text frame border color and style.
  • TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 30.0 allows you to specify the border color, background color and opacity and the border style including single and doubled borders.
  • The dialog boxes and the ribbon group received new visual elements to specify these new settings of text frames. The following settings of text frames are now available:
  • Background color
  • Transparency
  • Frame line width, color and style
  • Internal margins

New in TX Text Control .NET 23.0 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Shapes and Drawings:
  • MS Word compatible drawings and shapes can be inserted and edited. Shapes can be added as single objects into TX Text Control and can be completely edited using the ribbon interface, a ready-to-use dialog box and programmatically using the TX Text Control API.
  • When activating drawing objects, a fully featured editor is available to modify the shape. Shape objects can be also grouped in a Drawing Canvas and modified as a group. All shape types are compatible to MS Word and can be imported and exported from and to supported formats.
  • MS Word compatible drawings and shapes:
  • Merge Blocks:
  • We integrated the repeating merge block as a document element into the core of TX Text Control. The new element, a SubTextPart, is a range of text that includes other elements such as table rows, complete tables, paragraphs and all other elements such as merge fields, images and the new shapes.
  • This new concept makes the handling inside the template designer TX Text Control Words more intuitive and fault tolerant which makes it very easy for non-developers to create templates, only with MS Word skills. The merge blocks are highlighted automatically which helps to find the repeating blocks in a template. Nested blocks can be visually distinguished by using different colors or transparency for different block levels.
  • Performance boost:
  • Adding the merge blocks directly as a document element to the core of TX Text Control has another benefit: Performance. The performance of merging blocks within MailMerge increased up to 40% - a boost you can directly feel when previewing templates in the template designer.
  • MS Word compatible drawings and shapes:
  • Undo Grouping:
  • A user-defined undo step can be defined with the new BeginUndoAction and EndUndoAction methods. All editing and formatting changes done between these methods belong to the undo operation. All these changes are undone or redone in a single step.
  • A custom name can be defined that is also available with the UndoActionName property.
  • New Dialog Boxes:
  • TX Text Control X13 provides new dialog boxes to insert symbol characters, hyperlinks and bookmarks. Additionally, a Goto dialog has been implemented to jump directly to pages, sections, tables, lines or bookmarks.
  • New Dialog Boxes:
  • Unicode Bullet Characters:
  • The bullet character is no longer limited to the Windows Symbol font. The new ListFormat.FontName property can be used to specify a font for the bullet character. The bullet character itself can be any Unicode character. The ListFormatDialog dialog boxes have been extended to specify a font and a Unicode character.
  • Extended Document Properties:
  • Document properties such as author, creation date or keywords can be exported to all supported text formats using the new properties SaveSettings.CreationDate, SaveSettings.CreatorApplication, SaveSettings.DocumentKeywords, SaveSettings.DocumentSubject, SaveSettings.LastModificationDate and SaveSettings.Author. When a document is loaded, these properties are also available in the LoadSettings class.
  • Extended Document Properties:
  • Inserting Text Frames:
  • A new built-in mouse interface can be used to insert a text frame into the document. The end-user can then click into the document and draw a frame which determines the postion of the text frame. After releasing the mouse button the new text frame is created and inserted into the document.

New in TX Text Control .NET 21.0 (Sep 10, 2014)

  • Language Detection Engine:
  • In combination with TX Spell .NET 5.0, TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms supports language detection. Language scopes from a given string or complete document for more than 30 languages can be detected. The algorithm supports nested scopes such as bracketed text or bi-directional text in various, mixed languages.
  • In TX Text Control X11, language scopes can be defined using the Selection.Culture property. Based on the detected languages, proper dictionaries can be added to the dictionary collection or appropriate hyphenation lists can be loaded.
  • Find and Replace Dialog:
  • The built-in find and replace dialog boxes have been extended with several new features. The search process is no longer limited to the main text, it can be continued in text frames and in headers and footers. The new FindOptions member MatchWholeWord locates only instances of the search text that are whole words.
  • "Content Control" Adapter Fields:
  • In Microsoft Word, Content Controls are controls that can be added and customized for use in documents and templates. Those controls provide properties and settings that can be used to automate documents.
  • The TXTextControl.DocumentServer.Fields namespace provides new field adapter classes for the following content controls
  • RichTextContentControl
  • PlainTextContentControl
  • CheckBoxContentControl
  • ComboBoxContentControl
  • DateContentControl
  • DropDownContentControl
  • Table Programming:
  • The table programming interface of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms has been improved significantly. The Table.Select method allows to select a certain part of a table defined through two table cells. It is not possible to define a start row and column and an end row and column in order to select all cells in between.
  • Save Database Excerpts:
  • Database Excerpt XML files contain table definitions, relations and row excerpts to provide a preview of the report. In TX Text Control X11, those XML excerpts can be created from created database connections and used when the designer is deployed to template designers to insert the proper field names, merge blocks and to preview created templates.
  • Object Fading in Headers and Footers:
  • Objects including images, barcodes and charts are grayed out, if the HeaderFooter object is not activated. If a header or footer is active, the objects in the main text are rendered with a lower opacity.
  • New Font Settings Dialog:
  • The Font settings dialog of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms has been improved with Position settings such as Superscript and Subscript and a new, modern dialog layout.

New in TX Text Control .NET 19.0 (Apr 24, 2013)

  • Improved Headers and Footers: Odd and Even Pages
  • Headers and Footers: New Frame Style with Information Area
  • Native support for barcodes from TX Barcode .NET*
  • Advanced, MS Word Compatible Page Numbering
  • Built-in Context Menus and Icon Sets
  • New Table Insert Dialog
  • Microsoft Word Content Controls Support
  • Anchor Position Control Characters
  • Reporting: MailMerge Supports Charts and Barcodes Natively

New in TX Text Control .NET 18.0 (Apr 24, 2013)

  • Transparent Text Frames
  • Comprehensive 2D and 3D Charting
  • PDF Reflow - Improved PDF Import
  • Z-Order of Objects (text frames, images or charts)
  • Background Images
  • Updated Status Bar with Zoom Slider
  • New Ribbon Interface in TX Text Control Words
  • Support for EMF - Enhanced Metafile
  • Improved Object Handling (aspect ratio resizing, object moving)
  • MailMerge and ServerTextControl usable in client-side applications

New in TX Text Control .NET 17.0 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • Table Improvements
  • Spreadsheet-like Functionality
  • Page and Section Borders
  • Digital Signatures in Adobe PDF and PDF/A Documents
  • New Spell Checking Components
  • New HTML Import and Export Filters

New in TX Text Control .NET 16.0 (Sep 8, 2011)

  • New Data Binding
  • Windows Forms Browser Applications
  • New Repeating Table Headers
  • New Spell Checker Interface
  • New Text Part Collection
  • Improved PDF Import Filter