Hi Mark;

  Which TE or TX control version are you using (as set in the Application Painter) for RTE / RT DW support?

Regards ... Chris

Hi, Chris.   

It is not Data Window Rich Text. 

In the window painter I go to menu Insert->Control and selecting RichTextEdid from the list. (it has picture as capital letters blue A and red B). Then clicking on the window painter and resizing control to the needed dimensions.  Also in the Preferences for the control checking ON most of the options on tabs  General and Document.

Hope I answer your question.

Thank you

Hi, Mark -

This thread contains information on how to check which version of the Rich Text control your application is configured to use:

https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/rich-text-edit

I hope you find this info helpful.

Best regards, John

Hi,

We use the RTE control for exporting Richtext to HTML and store it in the DB in a blob field. Later on, we get that blob, write it to a temporary file and then use the InserDocument() function to import it back into the RTE control.

When we use(d) PB2017 R3 build 1915, we configured the application object to use "Built-in TX Text Control".

When we started using PB2019 R3 build 2703, we though that the "Built-in TX Text Control ActiveX 15.0", would be the same version as the one we use(d) in PB2017. Then we noticed that, when importing our DB blobs that contained a table in the html (<table>), things failed miserably, the formatting was all wrong.

In PB2019 the only version of the control that seems to be working reasonably well is the Built-in TX Text Control ActiveX 28.0, so make sure you are using that one and not any other version.

regards

MiguelL

Hi,  I tried 3 different RichTextEdit settings in the application object (Built-in TX Text Control ActiveX 15.0, Built-in TX Text Control ActiveX 28.0 and Built-in Rich Edit Control (Obsolete)). For all of them table displayed incorrectly in the RTF document and data in the Header/Footer not displayed at all .

Thank you

Hi,   

Yes, I tried v28.0 ...same result. 

The test file '53_1.TXT' is attached.

Thank you for your time

Hi, 

This is how it works.....

RTF document get created in some .NET application  (not PB .NET) that is using some RTE control. User can manually type or copy any paste any information from some other program(s) into the .NET application. Also document can be created in the Microsoft Word document and than copied into the .NET application. After that .NET application saved RTF formatted text (as {\rtf1\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0 Calibri;}{\f1 Times New Roman;}{\f2 Symbol;}.....) of that document into the database table. My PowerBuilder application retrieves RTF formatted text from the database, placed it into the PB Build-in RTE control, calling function rtename.SaveDocument(abc.PDF, FileTypePDF!)then sending location of the PDF file to some other system. 

May be there is something wrong in the .RTF file I provided but it is a file created on the client site and I do not have control over it. User can see table in that file without any problems in the .NET application and in the Microsoft Word but in PowerBuilder table shows incorrectly and in .PDF file also incorrectly as result of it .

I downloaded a trial version version of the TX Text Control ActiveX 30.0 (recommended by PowerBuilder). I was not able to use it in PowerBuilder without a license key, but I used it as stand-alone program and opened that same RTF file, Table was not shows correctly as well. I tried another free trial TER Control from the company SybSystems and table was shows correctly in that control.

Thank you for you time.

I've made a small application that loads an RTF file from disk and shows it on the v28.0 Richtext edit control.

See the attached zip file. (pb2019 r3). It works fine if I load an RTF made with Word or LibreOffce. It's just your RTF that indeed shows the table in a bad way. When loading your rtf and then reloading another RTF after that, I was told that the display of the rte cannot be displayonly (which it's not) and was even asked for a Password, so definitely something is wrong with it.

Remember I also told you that Wordpad.exe doesn't show any content of you rtf at all.

My best guess is that you'd try to figure out with the .Net service what might be wrong. If that's not possible, there are some tools that convert to RTF format, maybe that could be a last resort solution.

See attached.

regards

Thank you to ALL for the quick responses and willingness to help me !!! 

I will explore another ways convert document to PDF.