I'm trying to convert a rich text on a TRichEdit component to HTML tags.I have a function for that, but it doesn't work because the text in the component is always sent on PlainText. The option PlainText on the component is set as false.
Example: *Text in RichEdit: The house is blue. When I invoke the function is sent without the bold format in the text: RTFtoHTML(RichEdit.Lines.Text).
How can I do on the component or in other side to read this text like RTF?
I have read other questions and it didn't solve my problem. Thanks for your help.
There are a few 3rd party commercial components that do this quite well such as WPTools or TRichView. Both will attempt to optimize the generated HTML using CSS styles where applicable. Both support Delphi 2010, as well as the latest version of the compiler (Delphi Seattle as of this answer).
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I created a pdf template with open office draw. it has textboxes and I can set values with acrofield. But I can't import a html content to template.
I can convert html contents to pdf file; but for template, how can I do it?
My problem is with template; also my html content have to map on page, for example center of page.
Thanks
I am not quite sure if I understand your question, but it seems like you need some kind of template where you will enter your content.
My thinking goes to OpenXML as the best fit. But since it is rather complex you can save some time by using third party tools.
From my experience, Docentric gives you good value for the money. You can prepare a template in Word and then merge it with data from any source that can fit into .NET object. Your document can be converted to pdf or xps if required.
Templates are generated in MS Word (2007 or newer) using special Docentric Add-in for template generation. All MS Word formatting can be applied here. Placeholders for data are set where the data will appear at runtime.
The process is straight forward so even end users can design reports. Developers then focus on bringing data in from various sources (database, XML). Chech the product documentation for ideas how to use it.
I'm writing relatively complex iOS app that is very text heavy.
The text is also heavily formatted. It has lots of color, size, font, and spacing changes, as well bulleted lists and other text features you'd expect to see in a very rich website.
The text is displayed on about 40 different views. Some of which display a lot of text, others a little. There is no one template that all the pages follow. (There are some that are similar, but that's not the point.)
Lastly, the text is constantly being changed and updated by an editorial team during development, not so much after release. The text has to be stored on the device, downloading files is not an option.
My question is, what is the best way to store and then render all this text in an iOS App?
My approach
Store all the text content and formatting info in an html file and use
[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithFileURL:htmlDoc
options:#{
NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType}
documentAttributes:&attrDict
error:&error];
to create a NSAttributed string and use that to populate UITextViews.*
*Note: I would do some more work before creating the UITextViews. First I would parse it to find the appropriate page number [[Page:1.3]] and then parse the elements in that section [[header]], [[side_scroller]], etc...
I like this approach for two main reasons:
It created a separate copy document that contained all the text
and formatting info.
I'm the only iOS developer, but we have a couple front-end
developers. So when we get slammed with changes that need to be done
in 3.45 minutes, I could have some of the guys help me make the
changes, without having to know all the nuances of UIFont and
related classes. Occasionally, the editors could even make the
changes themselves :)
Minor reasons for liking this approach:
The text can vary so much per page, that creating a new UIFont + Plist entry to store the formatting info seems like a bigger pain than having everything in a .html document. (I could be wrong about this.)
Project managers will inevitably say: "Make this word a little bigger," "This word looks strange, add italics," and "Make everything purple!" HTML/CSS seems like a more flexible solution for quickly implementing these requests.
Downsides of this approach:
NSAttributedString picks up 99% of the HTML attributes I threw at it. It did not pick bullet spacing changes in unordered lists <ul>.
Plists are more performant.
Here are some other approaches I considered:
Plist + UIFont
RTF Document - Originally started with this, but found it hid a lot of what was going on and NSAttributedString wouldn't pick up some of the changes.
XML
Any advice or input would very appreciated.
Notes:
iPad app,
iOS 7,
No Internet Connectivity,
Xcode 5
What I did to store styled text in an iOS app was to write a Mac OS command line tool that opens RTF files and converts them to attributed strings (It's a 1-line call in Mac OS, but not supported in iOS for some reason.) I then use NSCoding to save the attributed strings as binary data, with a special .DATA filetype.
I created a custom UITextView category with a method that knows how to load the text view's attributed text from my custom filetype.
I created a build rule in my project that treats RTF files as source files in a build step and the .DATA filetype as the output, and copies the .DATA files into the build project.
Now, all I have to do is add an RTF file to my project the build process inserts the .DATA version of the styled text into the executable.
The Xcode editor knows how to edit RTF files, so you can edit them right in place in the IDE, OR you can edit them in TextEdit or any editor that supports RTF files.
There are a few things you can put in an RTF that aren't supported in UITextViews. (I don't remember what those are offhand. Sorry.)
I find styled WYSIWYG text much easier to deal with than HTML. You just edit the text, and the build process picks up the changes.
It worked beautifully. Plus, binary NSCoding output is a whole lot more compact than HTML.
I would recommend using web view. It can open files in resource bundle.
You can disable all the links in HTML by implementing delegate method shouldStartLoadWithRequest to return NO.
You might also want to set dataDetectorTypes to UIDataDetectorTypeNone.
That will disable auto link detection in web view
I need to convert the ms-word 2003 documents to HTML with MathML included if there are math equations. The quick solution I found at the moment is using the MathType addin to export the whole document into a HTML with MathML using its "Publish to MathPage" function.
However, it couldn't do the conversion properly. Most of the equations in the document is still in the image format, instead of MathML. The strange thing is that it converts the commas into the MathML, not the equations.
The original word document:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4625393/test12.doc
The key part of the converted html source:
https://gist.github.com/katat/5091021
Is this a bug of the MathType?
Kata, I'm not sure what versions of Word and MathType you are using, but I was able to successfully create the MathPage with MathML. I am using Word 2013 and MathType 6.9. This is the page I created: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17008533/187.xht
Not sure what could have gone wrong with yours. It does seem that you chose an appropriate "target" for the MathPage; it looks like you chose XHTML+MathML.
If you can give me some more details about what steps you're taking from start to finish, I'll try to help more. Also let me know what versions of the software you're using.
I know there is a list of similar questions but all handle pages without user interaction (static even though some js may be there).
Let's say we've a page the user can interact (e.g. svg than changes, or html tables with drilldown - content changes). Those interactions will change the page. Same happens in stackoverflow when entering the question...
The idea is adding a button, "convert to pdf" taking the state of the html and sending to the user back a pdf version (we've a Java server).
Using the print of the browser is not the answer I'm looking for :-).
Is this a stick in the moon ?
You would have to store the parameters that generate the HTML view (i.e. what the user clicks on, what selections they make, etc). If you can have a list of parameters that generate the HTML view, you can have a method which accepts the list of parameters (JSON post?), generates the HTML view and passes it to your PDF generating routine. I'm not too familiar with Java libraries for this purpose, but PHP has TCPDF can take html output to basically generate a PDF for you. Certainly, there are Java libraries which will allow you to do the same thing, or you can use the parameters to get a list of rows/arrays which can be iterated over and output using the PDF library of your choice.
Both iTextPDF and Aspose.PDF would allow you to do that (I've seen them used in two different projects), but there is no magic and you will have to do some work.
The steps are roughly:
Get (as a string) the part of the document which you want to print with jQuery or innerHTML
Call a service on the server side to convert this to PDF
[Serverside] Use a whitlist - based tool to clean up the hmtl (unless you want to be hacked). JSoup is great for that.
[Serverside] Use IText or Aspose API to create the PDF from the HTML (this is not trivial, you will have to read the doc)
Download the document
I'd also recommend DocRaptor, an HTML to PDF API built by my company, Expected Behavior.
DocRaptor uses Prince XML to generate PDFs, and thus produces higher quality results than similar products.
Adding PDF generation to your own web application using our service is as simple as making an HTTP POST request to our server.
Here's a link to DocRaptor's home page:
DocRaptor
And a link to our API documentation:
DocRaptor API documentation
Can you suggest a free/bundled HTML editor control for use in MS Access forms? Basically I need to bind a control with a VARCHAR field that allows basic HTML input, formatting and preview functionality -- a WYSIWYG editor.
Old thread, but here is another:
HTML Editor built around the MS Web Browser control
http://lebans.com/htmleditor.htm
Best of all, it is FREE.
For versions of Access prior to Access 2007, the only one I know of is XStandard at http://xstandard.com/
We tried adding it to a MS Access form for a project about a year ago, it worked well but some things did not work well in the context of our project (french accents, superscript, subscripts).
I too realize this is an old thread and the OP was asking about an HTML editor for 2003.
I just want to add that the so-called "Rich Text" textbox in Access 2007 does indeed using HTML but as near as I can tell it doesn't use proper styling markup (if you want to be able to retrieve the HTML). Here's an example of the code it produces:
<div align=center><font size=4><strong>Some Big Bold Text</strong></font></div>
<div align=center><strong>SomeBoldText</strong></div>
<div align=center>Some Regular Text</div>