Reporting and Mail Merge

Text Control Reporting combines the power of a reporting tool and an easy-to-use WYSIWYG word processor - fully programmable and embeddable in your ActiveX application.

Based on MS Word compatible report templates, mail merge and table reports to master-detail, side-by-side and sub-reports can be created. Nested repeating blocks with master-detail relationship views can be easily inserted. It doesn't matter what's repeated in the block: A table row, paragraphs, images or text frames. There are no limits.

MS Word Compatible File Formats

TX Text Control ActiveX supports a wide range of word processing formats (RTF, DOC, DOCX, HTML, XML, PDF) and image file formats (GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP, WMF, EMF, TIF).

Convert and modify different document types to a standardized style or merge various document types into one unified document. Provide your users an option to modify MS Word documents and to create Adobe PDF documents right in your ActiveX application.

Page Section Support

Documents can be divided into an unlimited number of different sections, each one of which may be individually formatted. TX Text Control is shipped with a dialog box that can be used to manipulate the section settings.

Sections enables users to create documents with mixed page orientation, so that parts are inserted as portrait and other parts as landscape. It is possible to add different headers and footers to specific sections or you can include page numbering only for the main part of a document and omit it in an appendix.

Add Page Columns to your Documents

Any number of columns can be inserted into one document. Page columns can be enabled per section or for the whole document. All aspects of the columns can be set with the shipped dialog box.

Background Images

Position images in front or behind the text or add transparent text frames on top of images. All types of images are supported: WMF, EMF, BMP, GIF, TIF, PNG and JPG.

Additionally, images can be added from a .NET System.Drawing.Image object directly. TX Text Control now uses Windows Imaging Component (WIC), a Component Object Model based imaging codec framework for working with and processing digital images and image metadata. The Tagged Image Format (.TIF) and Graphics Interchange Format (.GIF) image formats can now additionally be used for exporting images.

TX Text Control also enables the insertion of other formats such as DICOM (DCM, DC3, DIC) or Photoshop files (PSD) with a specific installed codec.

Headers and Footers

Different headers and footers can be inserted of each available page section of the document. Users can add a different first page header and footer, odd and even headers and footers and page numbers for each individual header and footer.