RE: RTF in silverlight

[jason schluter]

Perhaps you can convert it to XPS?

From: steven.n...@readify.net
To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:31 -0700
Subject: RTF in silverlight









Hi all,
 
I've got the a bunch of RTF coming from a service call that needs to render.
I have two options: Find a control that can render RTF or convert the RTF to 
something else on the server side that can be rendered natively.
 
For option 1, it seems the new SL4 RichTextbox doesn't support RTF (unless I've 
missed the mechanism for importing RTF text into the control?). I've trialed 
the DevExpress tool but it fails to render RTF with tables.
 I'm currently pulling down the ComponentOne RichTextbox to see if it does any 
better.
 
I've also tried option 2 - using a WPF rich textbox (in memory only) to load 
the RTF and then push out various output formats. It supports output to XAML 
but of course the XAML is not compliant with Silverlight.
 
I have my fingers crossed for the component one control but I'm not hopeful. I 
was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions on how to approach this and 
if anyone has found a good RTF control for silverlight.

 
Client side is SL4 and server side is .Net 4.0.
 
Cheers,
 
Steven Nagy

Readify | Senior Developer
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steven.n...@readify.net | B:
azure.snagy.name

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RE: RTF in silverlight

[Steven Nagy]

Thanks for the various responses.

The Telerik control - I couldn't see that it supported RTF. Its funny because 
there's lots of RichTextbox controls out there but very few actually support 
RTF (most have their own versions of WPF's FlowDocument instead).

I suspect these issues are because different companies have different 
implementations of the specification. Plus the specification has many versions.
Plus some writers/readers may be more tolerant to invalid control codes, while 
others are more strict. What the world needs is an RTF validator where you can 
post your RTF.

I didn't know Silverlight supported XPS, I'll investigate that option.

Thanks for the sample Carl, I actually need RTF though, including image data 
which is embedded in the RTF as binary. Pretty much fill RTF support in SL is 
required.

Tried the ComponentOne control as well - didn't seem to support tables properly 
either. This seems to be a common problem.

Thanks again all.
Steven Nagy
Readify | Senior Developer
M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | 
B: azure.snagy.name

From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com 
[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of jason schluter
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2010 1:02 AM
To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
Subject: RE: RTF in silverlight

Perhaps you can convert it to XPS?

From: steven.n...@readify.net
To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:31 -0700
Subject: RTF in silverlight
Hi all,

I've got the a bunch of RTF coming from a service call that needs to render.
I have two options: Find a control that can render RTF or convert the RTF to 
something else on the server side that can be rendered natively.

For option 1, it seems the new SL4 RichTextbox doesn't support RTF (unless I've 
missed the mechanism for importing RTF text into the control?). I've trialed 
the DevExpress tool but it fails to render RTF with tables. I'm currently 
pulling down the ComponentOne RichTextbox to see if it does any better.

I've also tried option 2 - using a WPF rich textbox (in memory only) to load 
the RTF and then push out various output formats. It supports output to XAML 
but of course the XAML is not compliant with Silverlight.

I have my fingers crossed for the component one control but I'm not hopeful. I 
was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions on how to approach this and 
if anyone has found a good RTF control for silverlight.

Client side is SL4 and server side is .Net 4.0.

Cheers,

Steven Nagy
Readify | Senior Developer
M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net 
| B: azure.snagy.name
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Re: RTF in silverlight

[Barry Beattie]

just putting on my BA hat for a second

I know the service call is spitting out RTF, but why RTF and not, say, PDF?
it sounds like you just need to render them, not interact with them.

just curious




On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Steven Nagy wrote:

> Thanks for the various responses.
>
>
>
> The Telerik control – I couldn’t see that it supported RTF. Its funny
> because there’s lots of RichTextbox controls out there but very few actually
> support RTF (most have their own versions of WPF’s FlowDocument instead).
>
>
>
> I suspect these issues are because different companies have different
> implementations of the specification. Plus the specification has many
> versions.
>
> Plus some writers/readers may be more tolerant to invalid control codes,
> while others are more strict. What the world needs is an RTF validator where
> you can post your RTF.
>
>
>
> I didn’t know Silverlight supported XPS, I’ll investigate that option.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the sample Carl, I actually need RTF though, including image
> data which is embedded in the RTF as binary. Pretty much fill RTF support in
> SL is required.
>
>
>
> Tried the ComponentOne control as well – didn’t seem to support tables
> properly either. This seems to be a common problem.
>
>
>
> Thanks again all.
>
> *Steven Nagy
> *Readify | Senior Developer
>
> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>
>
>
> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:
> ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *jason schluter
> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 May 2010 1:02 AM
> *To:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> *Subject:* RE: RTF in silverlight
>
>
>
> Perhaps you can convert it to XPS?
> --
>
> From: steven.n...@readify.net
> To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:31 -0700
> Subject: RTF in silverlight
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've got the a bunch of RTF coming from a service call that needs to
> render.
>
> I have two options: Find a control that can render RTF or convert the RTF
> to something else on the server side that can be rendered natively.
>
>
>
> For option 1, it seems the new SL4 RichTextbox doesn't support RTF (unless
> I've missed the mechanism for importing RTF text into the control?). I've
> trialed the DevExpress tool but it fails to render RTF with tables. I'm
> currently pulling down the ComponentOne RichTextbox to see if it does any
> better.
>
>
>
> I've also tried option 2 - using a WPF rich textbox (in memory only) to
> load the RTF and then push out various output formats. It supports output to
> XAML but of course the XAML is not compliant with Silverlight.
>
>
>
> I have my fingers crossed for the component one control but I'm not
> hopeful. I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions on how to
> approach this and if anyone has found a good RTF control for silverlight.
>
>
>
> Client side is SL4 and server side is .Net 4.0.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> *Steven Nagy
> *Readify | Senior Developer
>
> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>
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RE: RTF in silverlight

[Steven Nagy]

You're right to a degree. We get stuff in a variety of formats from different 
systems. Some are plain text, some are RTF, some are strongly typed classes of 
data, etc. So RTF is a source type that we have no control over.

We also investigated the option of converting RTF to HTML and displaying that 
in a Html control (I tried all the control vendors controls here as well). 
Essentially they 'cheat' by putting a browser element into Silverlight. The 
result is that nothing can render over the top of the HTML; its always on top. 
In our case we do need menus to render over the HTML. There are other 
work-arounds for this problem but they degrade the user experience.

PDF is possible; we could convert to PDF on the server side and return a link 
to the PDF file. However we are looking for a richer embedded experience where 
the content being displayed looks like it is part of the page. I'm not sure 
that we could achieve that with PDF.

It's a shame that we're up to version 4 of SL and still have to make 
compromises. I'm too stubborn for that. :)
However I also realise that it's a niche problem and SL can't accommodate all 
scenarios.
Steven Nagy
Readify | Senior Developer
M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | 
B: azure.snagy.name

From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com 
[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2010 8:50 AM
To: ozSilverlight
Subject: Re: RTF in silverlight

just putting on my BA hat for a second

I know the service call is spitting out RTF, but why RTF and not, say, PDF? it 
sounds like you just need to render them, not interact with them.

just curious



On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Steven Nagy 
mailto:steven.n...@readify.net>> wrote:
Thanks for the various responses.

The Telerik control - I couldn't see that it supported RTF. Its funny because 
there's lots of RichTextbox controls out there but very few actually support 
RTF (most have their own versions of WPF's FlowDocument instead).

I suspect these issues are because different companies have different 
implementations of the specification. Plus the specification has many versions.
Plus some writers/readers may be more tolerant to invalid control codes, while 
others are more strict. What the world needs is an RTF validator where you can 
post your RTF.

I didn't know Silverlight supported XPS, I'll investigate that option.

Thanks for the sample Carl, I actually need RTF though, including image data 
which is embedded in the RTF as binary. Pretty much fill RTF support in SL is 
required.

Tried the ComponentOne control as well - didn't seem to support tables properly 
either. This seems to be a common problem.

Thanks again all.
Steven Nagy
Readify | Senior Developer
M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net 
| B: azure.snagy.name

From: 
ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com
 
[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com]
 On Behalf Of jason schluter
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2010 1:02 AM
To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
Subject: RE: RTF in silverlight

Perhaps you can convert it to XPS?

From: steven.n...@readify.net
To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:31 -0700
Subject: RTF in silverlight
Hi all,

I've got the a bunch of RTF coming from a service call that needs to render.
I have two options: Find a control that can render RTF or convert the RTF to 
something else on the server side that can be rendered natively.

For option 1, it seems the new SL4 RichTextbox doesn't support RTF (unless I've 
missed the mechanism for importing RTF text into the control?). I've trialed 
the DevExpress tool but it fails to render RTF with tables. I'm currently 
pulling down the ComponentOne RichTextbox to see if it does any better.

I've also tried option 2 - using a WPF rich textbox (in memory only) to load 
the RTF and then push out various output formats. It supports output to XAML 
but of course the XAML is not compliant with Silverlight.

I have my fingers crossed for the component one control but I'm not hopeful. I 
was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions on how to approach this and 
if anyone has found a good RTF control for silverlight.

Client side is SL4 and server side is .Net 4.0.

Cheers,

Steven Nagy
Readify | Senior Developer
M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net 
| B: azure.snagy.name

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Re: RTF in silverlight

[Peter Gfader]

*Hi Steve *

Check out the Aspose Word controls for Silverlight

They are doing similar things:
1. Convert all diff. formats to XPS (on the server)
2. SL control displays XPS (that it gets from the server)

I like  that picture
http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/display-word-documents-in-silverlight.html

But
as you said, its not a nice solution

.peter.gfader.
http://blog.gfader.com/
http://twitter.com/peitor


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Steven Nagy wrote:

> You’re right to a degree. We get stuff in a variety of formats from
> different systems. Some are plain text, some are RTF, some are strongly
> typed classes of data, etc. So RTF is a source type that we have no control
> over.
>
>
>
> We also investigated the option of converting RTF to HTML and displaying
> that in a Html control (I tried all the control vendors controls here as
> well). Essentially they ‘cheat’ by putting a browser element into
> Silverlight. The result is that nothing can render over the top of the HTML;
> its always on top. In our case we do need menus to render over the HTML.
> There are other work-arounds for this problem but they degrade the user
> experience.
>
>
>
> PDF is possible; we could convert to PDF on the server side and return a
> link to the PDF file. However we are looking for a richer embedded
> experience where the content being displayed looks like it is part of the
> page. I’m not sure that we could achieve that with PDF.
>
>
>
> It’s a shame that we’re up to version 4 of SL and still have to make
> compromises. I’m too stubborn for that. J
>
> However I also realise that it’s a niche problem and SL can’t accommodate
> all scenarios.
>
> *Steven Nagy
> *Readify | Senior Developer
>
> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>
>
>
> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:
> ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Barry Beattie
> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 May 2010 8:50 AM
>
> *To:* ozSilverlight
> *Subject:* Re: RTF in silverlight
>
>
>
> just putting on my BA hat for a second
>
>
>
> I know the service call is spitting out RTF, but why RTF and not, say, PDF?
> it sounds like you just need to render them, not interact with them.
>
>
>
> just curious
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Steven Nagy 
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the various responses.
>
>
>
> The Telerik control – I couldn’t see that it supported RTF. Its funny
> because there’s lots of RichTextbox controls out there but very few actually
> support RTF (most have their own versions of WPF’s FlowDocument instead).
>
>
>
> I suspect these issues are because different companies have different
> implementations of the specification. Plus the specification has many
> versions.
>
> Plus some writers/readers may be more tolerant to invalid control codes,
> while others are more strict. What the world needs is an RTF validator where
> you can post your RTF.
>
>
>
> I didn’t know Silverlight supported XPS, I’ll investigate that option.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the sample Carl, I actually need RTF though, including image
> data which is embedded in the RTF as binary. Pretty much fill RTF support in
> SL is required.
>
>
>
> Tried the ComponentOne control as well – didn’t seem to support tables
> properly either. This seems to be a common problem.
>
>
>
> Thanks again all.
>
> *Steven Nagy
> *Readify | Senior Developer
>
> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>
>
>
> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:
> ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *jason schluter
> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 May 2010 1:02 AM
> *To:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> *Subject:* RE: RTF in silverlight
>
>
>
> Perhaps you can convert it to XPS?
> --
>
> From: steven.n...@readify.net
> To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:31 -0700
> Subject: RTF in silverlight
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've got the a bunch of RTF coming from a service call that needs to
> render.
>
> I have two options: Find a control that can render RTF or convert the RTF
> to something else on the server side that can be rendered natively.
>
>
>
> For option 1, it seems the new SL4 RichTextbox doesn't support RTF (unless
> I've missed the mechanism for importing RTF text into the control?). I've
> trialed the DevExpress tool but it fails to render RTF with tables. I'm
> currently pulling down the ComponentOne RichTextbox to see if it does any
> better.
>
>
>
> I've also tried option 2 - using a WPF rich textbox (in memory only) to
> load the RTF and then push out various output formats. It supports output to
> XAML but of course the XAML is not compliant with Silverlight.
>
>
>
> I have my fingers crossed for the component one control but I'm not
> hopeful. I was wo

Re: RTF in silverlight

[Chris Anderson]

Hi Steven

I wrote an article (for Silverlight 2, but still valid), which covers
creating an IFrame and displaying HTML/PDF/Word/etc inside it using their
browser plugins:
www.silverlightshow.net/items/Building-a-Silverlight-Line-Of-Business-Application-Part-6.aspx.
 To me, it does look as though it's a part of the application (assuming the
user has the corresponding plugin installed).  It resizes with the browser
window, and you get all the functionality of that plugin (particularly
printing).  Alternatively, check out the Document Toolkit from First Floor
Software (by Koen Zwikstra, of Silverlight Spy fame):
http://firstfloorsoftware.com/documenttoolkit.  It displays XPS, and he
discussed displaying PDF using it too (not sure on the status of that
though).  Check out my example anyway too, and see what you think.  I also
discuss this topic (primarily in regards to reporting) in my upcoming book
Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 (for Apress).

In terms of displaying RTF, you might want to look at some open source RTF
parsers in C# like:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/nrtftree.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx

I'm sure it would take little (or no) effort to port to Silverlight.

Hope this helps...

Chris



On 15 May 2010 08:52, Steven Nagy  wrote:

> You’re right to a degree. We get stuff in a variety of formats from
> different systems. Some are plain text, some are RTF, some are strongly
> typed classes of data, etc. So RTF is a source type that we have no control
> over.
>
>
>
> We also investigated the option of converting RTF to HTML and displaying
> that in a Html control (I tried all the control vendors controls here as
> well). Essentially they ‘cheat’ by putting a browser element into
> Silverlight. The result is that nothing can render over the top of the HTML;
> its always on top. In our case we do need menus to render over the HTML.
> There are other work-arounds for this problem but they degrade the user
> experience.
>
>
>
> PDF is possible; we could convert to PDF on the server side and return a
> link to the PDF file. However we are looking for a richer embedded
> experience where the content being displayed looks like it is part of the
> page. I’m not sure that we could achieve that with PDF.
>
>
>
> It’s a shame that we’re up to version 4 of SL and still have to make
> compromises. I’m too stubborn for that. J
>
> However I also realise that it’s a niche problem and SL can’t accommodate
> all scenarios.
>
> *Steven Nagy
> *Readify | Senior Developer
>
> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>
>
>
> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:
> ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Barry Beattie
> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 May 2010 8:50 AM
>
> *To:* ozSilverlight
> *Subject:* Re: RTF in silverlight
>
>
>
> just putting on my BA hat for a second
>
>
>
> I know the service call is spitting out RTF, but why RTF and not, say, PDF?
> it sounds like you just need to render them, not interact with them.
>
>
>
> just curious
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Steven Nagy 
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the various responses.
>
>
>
> The Telerik control – I couldn’t see that it supported RTF. Its funny
> because there’s lots of RichTextbox controls out there but very few actually
> support RTF (most have their own versions of WPF’s FlowDocument instead).
>
>
>
> I suspect these issues are because different companies have different
> implementations of the specification. Plus the specification has many
> versions.
>
> Plus some writers/readers may be more tolerant to invalid control codes,
> while others are more strict. What the world needs is an RTF validator where
> you can post your RTF.
>
>
>
> I didn’t know Silverlight supported XPS, I’ll investigate that option.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the sample Carl, I actually need RTF though, including image
> data which is embedded in the RTF as binary. Pretty much fill RTF support in
> SL is required.
>
>
>
> Tried the ComponentOne control as well – didn’t seem to support tables
> properly either. This seems to be a common problem.
>
>
>
> Thanks again all.
>
> *Steven Nagy
> *Readify | Senior Developer
>
> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>
>
>
> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:
> ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *jason schluter
> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 May 2010 1:02 AM
> *To:* ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> *Subject:* RE: RTF in silverlight
>
>
>
> Perhaps you can convert it to XPS?
> --
>
> From: steven.n...@readify.net
> To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:31 -0700
> Subject: RTF in silverlight
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've got the a bunch of RTF coming from a service call that needs to
> render.
>
> I have two options: Find a control that can render RTF or convert the RTF
> to something else on the server si

Re: RTF in silverlight

[Peter Gfader]

I just saw that aspose has a demo SL app up
You can upload some RTF files there and check if the control does the job...

http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.words/silverlight/demo.aspx#/Demo

My tests with some RTF's looked promising


.peter.gfader.
http://blog.gfader.com/
http://twitter.com/peitor

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:

> Hi Steven
>
> I wrote an article (for Silverlight 2, but still valid), which covers
> creating an IFrame and displaying HTML/PDF/Word/etc inside it using their
> browser plugins:
> www.silverlightshow.net/items/Building-a-Silverlight-Line-Of-Business-Application-Part-6.aspx.
>  To me, it does look as though it's a part of the application (assuming the
> user has the corresponding plugin installed).  It resizes with the browser
> window, and you get all the functionality of that plugin (particularly
> printing).  Alternatively, check out the Document Toolkit from First Floor
> Software (by Koen Zwikstra, of Silverlight Spy fame):
> http://firstfloorsoftware.com/documenttoolkit.  It displays XPS, and he
> discussed displaying PDF using it too (not sure on the status of that
> though).  Check out my example anyway too, and see what you think.  I also
> discuss this topic (primarily in regards to reporting) in my upcoming book
> Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 (for Apress).
>
> In terms of displaying RTF, you might want to look at some open source RTF
> parsers in C# like:
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/nrtftree.aspx
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx
>
> I'm sure it would take little (or no) effort to port to Silverlight.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 15 May 2010 08:52, Steven Nagy  wrote:
>
>> You’re right to a degree. We get stuff in a variety of formats from
>> different systems. Some are plain text, some are RTF, some are strongly
>> typed classes of data, etc. So RTF is a source type that we have no control
>> over.
>>
>>
>>
>> We also investigated the option of converting RTF to HTML and displaying
>> that in a Html control (I tried all the control vendors controls here as
>> well). Essentially they ‘cheat’ by putting a browser element into
>> Silverlight. The result is that nothing can render over the top of the HTML;
>> its always on top. In our case we do need menus to render over the HTML.
>> There are other work-arounds for this problem but they degrade the user
>> experience.
>>
>>
>>
>> PDF is possible; we could convert to PDF on the server side and return a
>> link to the PDF file. However we are looking for a richer embedded
>> experience where the content being displayed looks like it is part of the
>> page. I’m not sure that we could achieve that with PDF.
>>
>>
>>
>> It’s a shame that we’re up to version 4 of SL and still have to make
>> compromises. I’m too stubborn for that. J
>>
>> However I also realise that it’s a niche problem and SL can’t accommodate
>> all scenarios.
>>
>> *Steven Nagy
>> *Readify | Senior Developer
>>
>> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:
>> ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Barry Beattie
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 May 2010 8:50 AM
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>> *To:* ozSilverlight
>> *Subject:* Re: RTF in silverlight
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>> just putting on my BA hat for a second
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>> I know the service call is spitting out RTF, but why RTF and not, say,
>> PDF? it sounds like you just need to render them, not interact with them.
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>> just curious
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>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Steven Nagy 
>> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the various responses.
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>> The Telerik control – I couldn’t see that it supported RTF. Its funny
>> because there’s lots of RichTextbox controls out there but very few actually
>> support RTF (most have their own versions of WPF’s FlowDocument instead).
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>> I suspect these issues are because different companies have different
>> implementations of the specification. Plus the specification has many
>> versions.
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>> Plus some writers/readers may be more tolerant to invalid control codes,
>> while others are more strict. What the world needs is an RTF validator where
>> you can post your RTF.
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>> I didn’t know Silverlight supported XPS, I’ll investigate that option.
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>> Thanks for the sample Carl, I actually need RTF though, including image
>> data which is embedded in the RTF as binary. Pretty much fill RTF support in
>> SL is required.
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>> Tried the ComponentOne control as well – didn’t seem to support tables
>> properly either. This seems to be a common problem.
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>> Thanks again all.
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>> *Steven Nagy
>> *Readify | Senior Developer
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>> M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name
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>> *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [m