Hello Everybody,

After a couple of years struggeling with MS Word, we are now looking for a 
solution that works on every workstation (approx. 2500, Using XP - Vista - 
7 - 2003/2008 Terminal Server/Citrix).
(Our customers use: MS Word XP - 2010, but alway's problems on about 50% of 
the installtions... like wierd popups, bad installations, ODBC errors, 
etc... )

We are looking for a MS Word like editor to embed en redistribute with te 
following funtions:
- Edit/save documents
- Export PDF/JPEG (For E-Mailing)
- Export/import MS Word .doc/(.docx)
- MailMerge (prefered by search/replace strings for example: [name] )
Optional:
- Labels printing (merge)

Found the following sollutions anybody any experience ?
- TX Text Control
- pinEdit Desktop?

Kind regards,

Nico Houben
Car-Systems B.V.

Op Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:22:13 +0100 schreef Nico Houben:

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> After a couple of years struggeling with MS Word, we are now looking for a 
> solution that works on every workstation (approx. 2500, Using XP - Vista - 
> 7 - 2003/2008 Terminal Server/Citrix).
> (Our customers use: MS Word XP - 2010, but alway's problems on about 50% of 
> the installtions... like wierd popups, bad installations, ODBC errors, 
> etc... )
> 
> We are looking for a MS Word like editor to embed en redistribute with te 
> following funtions:
> - Edit/save documents
> - Export PDF/JPEG (For E-Mailing)
> - Export/import MS Word .doc/(.docx)
> - MailMerge (prefered by search/replace strings for example: [name] )
> Optional:
> - Labels printing (merge)
> 
> Found the following sollutions anybody any experience ?
> - TX Text Control
> - pinEdit Desktop?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Nico Houben
> Car-Systems B.V.

Hi,

Try open Office. It is a little hard at first to use it, but when you get
the hang of it, it is very stable.

Good luck!

Ronald van Veelen <vnr@emergo-systems.nl> wrote in message 
news:56bfdfab$240be2b5$fc0f@news.alaska-software.com...
>Op Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:22:13 +0100 schreef Nico Houben:
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Try open Office. It is a little hard at first to use it, but when you get
>the hang of it, it is very stable.
>
>Good luck!
Hello Ronald,

Thanks for your reply,

We tryed that one already but indeed it is hard to implement, but when it 
works it is stable. (We use it for example to export data to calc and even 
the mailmerge works, but openoffice stay's in memory sometimes and hangs for 
the second batch.)

Other problem comes now:
- We have a lot of customers who cann't install openoffice because of their 
systemadmins who refuse to install it. (Terminal Servers, etc..) 
An other problem is:

Kind regards,

Nico Houben

Nico,

TxTextControl could be the way to go. It is reasonably easy to implement
and is a stable solution.
Biggest problem was a dictionary, but a believ recent versions allow use of
external dictionaries.

Peter

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> After a couple of years struggeling with MS Word, we are now looking for a 
> solution that works on every workstation (approx. 2500, Using XP - Vista - 
> 7 - 2003/2008 Terminal Server/Citrix).
> (Our customers use: MS Word XP - 2010, but alway's problems on about 50% of 
> the installtions... like wierd popups, bad installations, ODBC errors, 
> etc... )
> 
> We are looking for a MS Word like editor to embed en redistribute with te 
> following funtions:
> - Edit/save documents
> - Export PDF/JPEG (For E-Mailing)
> - Export/import MS Word .doc/(.docx)
> - MailMerge (prefered by search/replace strings for example: [name] )
> Optional:
> - Labels printing (merge)
> 
> Found the following sollutions anybody any experience ?
> - TX Text Control
> - pinEdit Desktop?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Nico Houben
> Car-Systems B.V.

Hi Nico,

We are using TxTextControl Professional in our application and it works
great. also use wspell activex with it for realtime spell checking.

Have started to ship it to customers recently and so far it is working
great. Took some time to get the merge functionality working to our liking.
but now we simply have a listbox of fields that they can pick and place in
the letter when creating (using the txtext format for the templates) and
then when we create the actual merge and save the file linked to our
document management system we save them in word formaat. Lots of file
formats to export to. 

Its certainly not a cookie cutter solution. You have to build the dialogs,
menu's additinal toolbars etc. and lots of callbacks have to be coded for
right click menu's for managing copy, paste, selecting properties on image
or text boxes and tables etc. We have also integrated Marshallsofts email
engine into it for direct emailing. 

Hope this helps.

Mark Sergent
InnSource Solutions Inc.
mark@innsourcesolutions.com



On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:22:13 +0100, Nico Houben wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> After a couple of years struggeling with MS Word, we are now looking for
a 
> solution that works on every workstation (approx. 2500, Using XP - Vista
- 
> 7 - 2003/2008 Terminal Server/Citrix).
> (Our customers use: MS Word XP - 2010, but alway's problems on about 50%
of 
> the installtions... like wierd popups, bad installations, ODBC errors, 
> etc... )
> 
> We are looking for a MS Word like editor to embed en redistribute with te 
> following funtions:
> - Edit/save documents
> - Export PDF/JPEG (For E-Mailing)
> - Export/import MS Word .doc/(.docx)
> - MailMerge (prefered by search/replace strings for example: [name] )
> Optional:
> - Labels printing (merge)
> 
> Found the following sollutions anybody any experience ?
> - TX Text Control
> - pinEdit Desktop?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Nico Houben
> Car-Systems B.V.

Mark,
did you ever think of selling this interface between xBase++ and 
TX-Text-Control? Maybee with source so users have the chance to make 
adjustments for their own needs?

Klemens

Am 29.03.2011 19:11, schrieb Mark Sergent:
> Hi Nico,
>
> We are using TxTextControl Professional in our application and it works
> great. also use wspell activex with it for realtime spell checking.
>
> Have started to ship it to customers recently and so far it is working
> great. Took some time to get the merge functionality working to our liking.
> but now we simply have a listbox of fields that they can pick and place in
> the letter when creating (using the txtext format for the templates) and
> then when we create the actual merge and save the file linked to our
> document management system we save them in word formaat. Lots of file
> formats to export to.
>
> Its certainly not a cookie cutter solution. You have to build the dialogs,
> menu's additinal toolbars etc. and lots of callbacks have to be coded for
> right click menu's for managing copy, paste, selecting properties on image
> or text boxes and tables etc. We have also integrated Marshallsofts email
> engine into it for direct emailing.
>
> Hope this helps.
>

Hi Klemens,

Yes i have considered it, but we are in the middle of trying to wrap up and
roll out a new product so I currently do not have time to extract it from
the product to make it usable to others. We are using MS-SQL via
sqlexpress, not dbf, so all of the tracking databases etc would have to be
converted. The gui is also integrated into our custom threading engine etc
etc etc. 

Happy to try and answer any questions that might assist in getting it going
though. And could probably provide some code snippets for anyone that
needed them.

Just send me a private email.

Mark Sergent
InnSource Solutions Inc.
mark@innsourcesolutions.com


On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:36:17 +0200, Klemens Lichter wrote:

> Mark,
> did you ever think of selling this interface between xBase++ and 
> TX-Text-Control? Maybee with source so users have the chance to make 
> adjustments for their own needs?
> 
> Klemens
> 
> Am 29.03.2011 19:11, schrieb Mark Sergent:
>> Hi Nico,
>>
>> We are using TxTextControl Professional in our application and it works
>> great. also use wspell activex with it for realtime spell checking.
>>
>> Have started to ship it to customers recently and so far it is working
>> great. Took some time to get the merge functionality working to our
liking.
>> but now we simply have a listbox of fields that they can pick and place
in
>> the letter when creating (using the txtext format for the templates) and
>> then when we create the actual merge and save the file linked to our
>> document management system we save them in word formaat. Lots of file
>> formats to export to.
>>
>> Its certainly not a cookie cutter solution. You have to build the
dialogs,
>> menu's additinal toolbars etc. and lots of callbacks have to be coded
for
>> right click menu's for managing copy, paste, selecting properties on
image
>> or text boxes and tables etc. We have also integrated Marshallsofts
email
>> engine into it for direct emailing.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>