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New and Updated Features in V12
- Text Frames - Freely placeable and programmable text frames can be inserted and positioned as characters or geometrically relative to a paragraph or a page
- Anchored Images - Images can be anchored to a specific paragraph and thus maintain their geometrical position, in relation to the paragraph to which they are anchored
- New Object Attribute Dialog Box - New built-in dialog box for all image, text frame and object attributes. Settings such as size, layout, position, filename, format, resolution and compression can be adjusted Image Improvements - Simply switch between the image position modes: convert an image inserted as character to an image at a fixed position or anchor it to a paragraph using the new dialog box
- Table Formatting - Now it is possible to insert page breaks inside of a table, keep table rows together on one page and to specify the table cell height
Typical application
TX Text Control ActiveX Server can combine data from various sources (HTML forms, databases, Word files) to build documents that can be saved in a number of formats (PDF, DOC, RTF, HTML, XML).
For example, an invoice from an online store can easily be created, combining data from a web user with data from a database. The resulting print-ready file can be sent to the web user who can save or print it.
Feature overview
Generate dynamic content such as quotes or invoices on-the-fly
Today's business processes demand that information is immediately accessible to stakeholders inside and outside a company. Typically, this information needs to be available in a wide range of formats and customizable for every reader. Using TX Text Control ActiveX Server, a print-ready document can be generated on-the-fly using information from a set of databases and user data from a web browser. The resulting document can be displayed in the browser, saved to disk or sent by e-mail. As documents are generated on-the-fly, it is not physically stored on the server. This reduces redundancy and at the same time, gives users direct access to up-to-date, live information.
Create print-ready PDF files on a web server
Using Abobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), documents immediately becomes compatible to a wide range of end devices - from most PDAs to any desktop PCs.
Convert documents on demand into most word processing formats
TX Text Control ActiveX Server can be used to convert documents on a server into most popular word processing formats, including MS Word, XML, RTF, PDF or HTML.
Use information from databases for mail-merge applications on a server
Assemble documents from sources like a set of databases or physical files. The contents of database fields can be inserted at specified positions in a previously prepared template.
Programmatic word processing
All word processing functions normally available from menu items and dialog boxes can be applied from code. Options include find&replace, fonts, paragraph indents and alignment, inserting tables and images, and many more. Just as a piece of text is selected with the mouse, it can be selected from code, for instance to underline it or change its text color.
One TX Text Control ActiveX Server license is valid for one developer and one server. In addition, the ActiveX Server license includes one Enterprise client license for client-side development.
TX Text Control ActiveX Server is deployed as an automation server on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Most properties and methods of the approved OCX interface are available in ASP / ASP.NET projects, making TX Text Control ideally suitable for web server applications |
