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Export to PDF with TX Text Control
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Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format originally created by Adobe, to provide a standard form for storing and editing printed documents.
Universally readable
As PDF documents can easily be read and printed by end-users on a variety of computer and platform types, they are very commonly deployed on the Internet and are often used as the format of choice when exchanging documents via e-mail. PDF files retain the 'look and feel' of the original document with special formatting, graphics, and color intact.
Export directly to PDF
TX Text Control allows documents to be exported directly to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), without the need for any further third party software or cumbersome printer drivers.
Using the traditional approach to PDF creation, it is necessary to print a document to a file and then use a PS to PDF converter (such as Adobe Distiller) to convert the print file to a PDF file. While technologically possible, it is a clumsy solution and taxing on the end-user.
Programmatically, offering PDF format is as simple as saving to Microsoft Word or RTF (see the Save method in the .NET and ActiveX documentation)
TXTextControl1.Save "Sales Report.pdf", 0, 12
All formatting and layout features that TX Text Control supports can be saved in a PDF file.
Further Reading
PDF functionality was added to TX Text Control in v10.0. At the time, we published this article that takes a closer look at how PDF export works, in addition to a number of sample PDF files.
