Getting started with Rtf2Pdf / TextDynamic Server

wRTF2PDF / TextDynamic Server by WPCubed GmbH is a universal tool to convert RTF files into PDF. It supports embedded images, tables, headers and footers, sections, embedded images, even textboxes and foot notes. We have added this topic to the TextDynamic manual since it uses almost the same interfaces and code in general is interchangeable. RTF2PDF can be seen as the server edition of TextDynamic.

The object RTF2PDF is located in the assembly wPDF.dll. You need the RTF2PDF license to be able to use, the object will not work with wPDFControl.

When using RTF2PDF V3.5 or later we recommend to only use the property PDFCreator to change the way the PDF file is created. The "old" properties will still work though. Please also do not change the Command() function anymore to work with the text. Now you have a powerful API to create, load and save text. It is possible to load text in RTF, HTML, the proprietary WPT, ANSI and UNICODE format.

RTF2PDF can be easily used with ASP or ASP.NET to create HTML or PDF response output. Please check out our demo server. Since the API is so similar to the API of TextDynamic you can use almost the same code in your ASP page as you used for your desktop application. Due to its nature, it does not offer any GUI elements and does not implement the wpa actions used by TextDynamic.

RTF2PDF can also be used in VBS, VB and alike: Please see our introduction ActiveX example code!

Methods	Properties
BeginDoc - start a PDF document	Memo - provides an IWPEditor interface with many sub properties and -methods
EndDoc - closes a PDF document	Memo2
Print - exports the text in editor #1	PDFCreator - modify the PDF properties
PrintSecond - exports the text in editor #2. Use this to export a report!	ResultBuffer - read the created PDF data as array of bytes. PDFFile in PDFCreator must be set to "memory" Also see the TranferHelper class.
StartEngine /SetLicense - set license key and initialize.	Report - used for the optional reporting feature.
StopEngine - stops engine (OCX, C++ only)	AttrHelper - can be used to calculate a character attribute index to be used with TextCursor.InputString

IWPAttrInterface	Update text attributes
IWPCharacterAttr	Attributes for links and fields
IWPDataBlock	Manage header and footer and text layers
IWPEditor	Main interface for RTF2PDF to manipulate text #1 or text #2
IWPFieldContents	Work with mail merge fields
IWPMapi	Interface to create and send e-mails
IWPMeasurePageParam	This interface is used by the OnMeasurePage event.
IWPNumberStyle	Interface to modify a numbering style.
IWPPageSize	Interface to update Pagesize
IWPPageSizeList	Use this list to create set of rectangles and fill them with text
IWPParInterface	Low level paragraph text and attribute access
IWPPdfCreator	Interface to start and configure PDF creation
IWPPicture	.NET Image2Picture utility class
IWPPrintParameter	Optimize printing (duplex, tray selection)
IWPStream	.NET Stream2WPStream utility class
IWPTextCursor	Text creation and cursor positioning
IWPTextObj	Change field, object and image properties
IWPTextWriter	Access writing properties