26.3.2018 - V7.50
- updates to font embedding
- improvement of font baseline calculation
- various updates to PDF generation
- improved DocX loading and saving
23.8.2016 - V4.30
* updated PDF engine
* updated DocX import and export
- fixes print problem introduced by Windows update around 19.8.2016
10.6.2016 - V4.30
- integrate the latest PDF exporting engine
- several improvements to DocX import and export
- fixes in HTML load and save
- HTML support now handles "rel" and "target" parameter of hyperlinks
* several improvements to editing engine
4.3.2015 - V4.23.3
- fixes a problem in 64 edition
- BeforePage / AfterPage event was not triggered in 64bit edition
23.1.2015 - V4.23
- improved section support
- DocX can be loaded natively with RTF2PDF/TextDynamic Server
- DocX can be saved natively with RTF2PDF/TextDynamic Server
- several improvements to PDF converter
10.10.2014 - V4.0.2
- improved 64 bit support
- fix problem with demo
23.9.2014 - V4.0.1.1
- fix problem with text boxes in RTF text
- improved transparency support of PDF engine
- improved Type3 creation of PDF generator
- several smaller enhancement to HTML loading
10.8.2014 - V4.0.1
* update of our ASP demo at http://178.77.68.45/ (32 and 64 bit on Windows 2008 Server)
+ added chapter "ASP .NET Troubleshooting"
+ Add Copyright info the the PDF properties (see SetProp)
+ Add extensions to the PDF XMP (see SetProp)
+ finetune Type3 embedding - only add certain fonts (see SetProp)
25.3.2014 - V4.0
+ added unicode DLLs
+ added 64bit support (unicode DLL only)
+ improved PDF engine V4 (wPDF 4)
+ new RTF Engine V7 with improvement5s to rendering and HTML support
+ new PDFCreator.Fontmode EmbedType3Fonts
+ IWPPrintParameter.AllPagePaperSource and FirstPagePaperSource values will now be saved to RTF.
They will only be loaded from RTF, when the format string "RTF-ReadPrintPar," was used. They are not loaded
in general, since the application must allow it to change the paper source.
(note: IWPPrintParameter is valid for the whole document and not for individual sections)
+ You can use IWPMemo.TextCommandStr(47) to retrieve a list of the tray names and IDs for the current printer.
+ The formatstring "RTF-ReadWPT4Fields," will make TD convert WPTools 4 fields into merge fields.
- fix problem with wrong display of merge field start
* RTF reader now handles UNC file links which use "\\" in the path
+ Saves and loads \column
* stream RTFvariables were not loaded from WPT format. They are loaded now.
Upgrades to RTF2PDF/ TextDynamic Server V4 are free, when you ordered on or after 1.10.2013.
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10.11.2012 V3.93
- Update to RTF reader to load landscape flag for sections better
- when page mirror was used, after a page break the text indentation was sometimes wrong
- hyphenation code was broken
- workaround for word files which have space characters in table definitions
- fixes problem with numbering of footnotes
- improvement to selection code (doubleclick)
- improvement to display of NL symbol (if active)
- improvement to tables with header+footer rows
19.3.2012 V3.90
* improved HTML export (i.e. write all parameters in "")
* improved HTML import (i.e. reading cell heights)
- when writing HTML background color is not set to white when shading is 0. 0 is treated as default value.
- image align center and right now works in HTML
- fix an endless loop when image was too large
- improvement of table border drawing
- improvement for right align in table cells
- RTF writer writes background color easier to understand by Word
* improved word wise cursor movement when fields are used
- dash symbols were not painted using the current font color
- some stability improvements
+ improved XML import/export
- fix problem when painting insertpoints after tab stops. They were painted two times.
+ the text writer now understand the format option -softlinebreaks to create a \n at the end of
every line. In fact all soft line breaks will be handled like the #10 code.
- some smaller editor and stability problems fixed
+ It is possible to specify a field name inside the formatstring for the load and save functions: Load and Save Category
14.10.2011 V3.78
+ Sub paragraph: IWPParInterface.SetParType
- change in RTF reader to let section inherit the default layout, not the current page layout
- fix of problem with table borders when also PageMirror was used.
* updated border enhanced dialog
* updated border drawing code - now supports dotted lines with wider lines.
* modified WPT reading code to repair table width which were negative
+ improved image rendering code for transparent (PNG) images. They will be drawn transparently
also when scaled and also in high resolution rendering mode.
+ new code to draw dotted lines which also supports wider lines
- fix problem when there were too columns
* MergeText now restores before Merge Cursor position and selection (except for cell selection)
* resizing a table column does not move the cursor to the nearby cell anymore
* different frame line when resizing columns and rows
+ InsertColumn now also works if wpAllowSplitOfCombinedCellsOnly was used in EditOptionsEx
+ improved paint routine now avoids clipping of characters which were overlapping their bounding box,
such as italic letters or "f".
+ paragraph styles can now contain border definition for paragraphs
* revised code to draw double borders - always draws two lines on screen even when zoomed
* improved saving of numbering attributes with styles
- fix problem with page numbers in sections when tables were spanning pages
- fix problem with right aligned negative numbers in merge fields
* automatic text attribute was not inherited to tables inserted in fields
20.7.2011 V3.75
* Memo.SetBProp(0, 23,1)can be used to force colored table borders to be printed black (workaround printer bug)
- updated PDF engine to sort named destination in lexical order
- IWPPageSize.GetProp was not working
- modified DBCS support for RTF reader
- improved table handling in editor
- fixed problem in "WPT" reader to update current outlines with the loaded outlines
- update to PDF export
- resizing of images in the text improved (did not work if the image was made larger than the page)
* updated actions to apply inner and outer borders to selected cells
- update to symbol dialog, tab and table dialog
- fix problem with internal exception "too many EnableProtection".
- wpsec_ResetPageNumber flag is now saved in WPTOOLS format
- HTML Writer: A style with name "DIV" will be added to the style sheet to save the default font
- HTML Writer: BaseFont tag will now be written with font size (requires -writebasefont option)
- improved display of character background color for fields and other special code
* change in format routine to fix problem when a nested table cell caused a page break.
* several fixes and updates in editor
* PREMIUM: Improved editing of text boxes
25.9.2010 V3.72
* improved PDF export : updated font embedding code
- improved RTF reader (problem with ANSI characters > #127)
- some improvement to table rendering code (bottom border of vertically merged cells)
+ HTML: new support for ­ entity
* the print preview will now be displayed over main windows
* several improvements of editor
* improvement to RTF writer to when writing table cells
* improved right aligned text
* fixed problem with line heights of lines which are empty except for new line character
17. June 2010 V3.76
+ it is now possible to load base64 embedded JPEGs from HTML
3. March 2010 V3.74.3
* improvement of optional http image fetch mode
* improvement of bullet and number support
- HTML writer will write page info only if format string "-PageInfo" has been specified
- HTML writer will write &nspc; in all empty paragraphs
- fix in event handling
22. December 2009 V3.74
- fix problem with keep in table rows
* XML reader/writer handles foot notes
+ new commands in IWPParInterface.ParCommand to
find character attributes in paragraphs
to change certain attributes quickly
- fix problem with paragraph numbering
- fix problem with encoding certain characters in RTF
28. October 2009 V3.73
* improved manual, see chapters WPDllInt, IWPEditor, and API Reference
+ added topic: Text property reference
+ faster monochrome dithered TIFF creation (requires server license)
- improvement of RTF reader
- improvement of in HTML writer
- improvement of PDF creator
+ IWPParInterface (Memo.CurrPar) can now work with selected text, too: 
31. July 2009 V3.72
+ Use SetSProp(7, filename) to specify a background image for all files
+ updated PDF engine
+ new KeepN support to keep paragraphs and tables together on a page. See Memo.SetBProp.
+ new FormatOptionEx2 wpfHideParagraphWithHiddenText to hide paragraphs which only contain hidden text.
* bugfix in PDF Generator
* RTF writer will now create different code for embedded SPAN objects to avoid problems when loading RTF in Word
+ The reader now understand the format option "-nonumstyles" to load numbering not as style, but as text. This way the numbering can be represented as in the original (Word-) file. This is very useful when exporting RTF to PDF without any editing.
+ new ViewOptionsEx flags (sew SetBProp)
* improved column handling (Premium Edition) with column balancing
* improved HTML loading and saving
23. August 2008 V3.69
- fixes problem in HTML reader
- EMF export did not use correct page size when normal layout mode was used.
24. July 2008 V3.68
* updated wrapper for VS2008 (also see the trouble shooting note)
* improved PDF export engine
+ EMF data is now saved to RTF as emfblip data.#
18. April 2008 V3.66
+ add PDF tags to mark paragraphs and tables
- fix resource leak which occurred with some PNG Images were used.
- improve PDF export engine
28. March 2008 V3.65
+ new, optional reporting is available now
* improved PDF engine
* improved formatting performance
* revised manual (see mail merge, TextCommandStr and Introduction)
+ added syntax highlighting (HTML)
- CurrSelAttr was not always updated. This has been fixed.
14. January 2008 V3.60
+ new printing function - see Commands to print text (to printer, not PDF!)
+ HTML rendering mode
30. November 2007 V3.40
* several improvements to word processing engine
* better handling of Japanese unicode characters when exporting PDF
* fixed saving of spacing inside table cells
14. November V3.39
- fix in InputRowStart - Border was not applied
- sever fixes in RTF handling
20. July 2007 - V3.37
* improved support for keepN.
* some improvements to RTF engine
* better handling of auto sized tables - needs to be activated using Command(1029,1)
5. June 2007 - V3.35.6
+ RTFDataAppendTo can now create sections
+ when loading HTML you can specify the format string "-utf8" if the HTML code contains UTF8 characters
- better handling of code pages when saving HTML and RTF
+ IWPPageSize.SetProp can be used to select properties for a new section
* HTML reader is more forgiving when loading non well formed X-HTML
* ReleaseInt now makes sure not to delete interfaces which are still needed
19. April 2007 - V1.52
+ improved .NET assembly. IWPEditor is now implemented as C# class and most interface references are automatically managed
+ the event OnPaintWatermark can be used now. It receives the page number in "Mode".
+ new ID in ParCommand to check if it a paragraph is empty is empty
+ new ID in Memo.TextCommandStr to mark certain paragraphs to be exported as PDF outlines (bookmarks)
28. February 2007 - V1.51
New .NET method ReleaseInt - this releases an interfaces at once and avoids problem with garbage collection to access an interface although the object has been already disposed.
New API: IWPTextCursor.TableSplit
IWPTextCursor.TableSort sorts rows in a table
IWPTextCursor.ASetCellProp changes attributes of a range of cells
16. February 2007 - V3.50.5
+ new ASP.NET test server is online at http://www.rtf-net.com
+ "Premium" features now included (TextBox, footnotes)
- several improvements in API (InputHeader, SelectNextPar)
- InputHyperlink initialized "title" instead of "href"
- improvement to work with Windows 64 (metafile fix)
- solved threading issue
10. February 2007 - V3.50
+ first public release of RTF2PDF V3.5, akn "plus"
+ you can load license info from file
+ new setup procedure
* changed license keys - code looks like "wwww-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz"
30 January 2007 - V3.49 (beta)
* much improved manual - it now incorporates the developers API Reference
+ the .NET assemblies are now all "strongly named".
This makes a recompilation of the projects necessary.
+ the included DLLs and the OCX are now signed by WPCubed GmbH (Authenticode Technology)
- improved PDF export (the CID font feature works better)
- possibility to embed binary data in the PDF file
+ TextAttr is now also published by interface IWPMemo
+ new method MoveToField
+ new method InputEmbeddedData - you can insert objects for PDF attachments (requires the optional PDF creation license)
+ new low level methods to move current paragraph (IWPParInterface.Select..)
+ new convert methods to calculate index values from text, font name and color values to be used with ParASet
+ new low level methods to loop all paragraphs in a document. (ActiveText.SelectFirstPar, SelectNextPar)
+ improved method to extract metafiles: Memo.SavePageAsMetafile and Memo.GetPageAsMetafile
+ new property PageSizeList to install a list of page size definitions (see demo "ExtractMetafiles")
* the internal interfaces (Memo, TextCursor) have been enhanced to be "dual". This improves the compatibility with development systems which use the OCX version of TextDynamic.
+ when saving HTML automatically embedded images will be written as files. See chapter "HTML loading and saving"
+ the spellcheck dialogs can be now localized suing the XML code in the PCC file
+ the interface MAPI can be used to create e-mails (HTML incl. attachments) and send them
+ the integrated MIME encode can be used to create e-mail data (use format string MIME)
+ Memo.RTFDataAppendTo to create a large text from multiple copies of the current
+ Memo.SaveToVar - save the text to a variant (.NET: "object") - for better performance
+ Memo.LoadFromVar - load data from a variant