Please extend your HTML skills!

[rksaskia]

Hello,

RTF is terrible!! Want an example?

You have add the Option
StiOptions.Engine.ForceLoadExtendedRichTextLibrary = true;
StiOptions.Engine.ExtendedRichTextLibraryClassName = "RichEdit50W";

We tested and it works. A colorfull Table, an Image, all was show in the Preview. But then we exported to Pdf. No Image in PDF.

Yes, we can use option "RTF as Image", but then the PDF becomes unusable. Why? All RTF-Text is not searchable and the PDF is very big.
Our customers print lists of thousands of pages, not just a 2-sheet invoice! If we choose 300 dpi, so that the RTF texts don't become totally blurred, this results in a PDF in the size of some 100 megabyte!
We were also surprised when we printed this list on the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer that comes with every Windows 10 (or if Office is installed). The generated PDF was only a few megabytes in size and everything was there and every text was searchable.
Why don't you do the same thing?

But I don't really want better RTF support, but a technology from this century. We, their customers, need a function that can integrate preformatted text into the report.
Why the hell don't they just extend their HTML capabilities within the text fields. Only table support with colors and images are still needed.
And we need it here, in Winforms.

Please put it on your ToDO list! And everyone else here who wants to do the same, give me a vote here.

Greetings

[HighAley]

Hello.

Unfortunately, there is no build-in support of the RTF and HTML.
So we are using available Windows libraries for RTF.
The support of HTML was implemented by our code.
Could you send us a sample of your Rich Text we will try to help you.

Thank you.