Editions and Features — TX Text Control .NET for WPF

Every license of TX Text Control .NET for WPF is for one of three editions: Enterprise, Professional or Standard. The editor, its XAML controls and its programming interface are the same in all three; what differs is the set of features and file formats that work. Compare the editions below before you buy, and check them again when a feature this documentation describes isn't available in your application.

The Editions

Edition	For
Enterprise	Applications that need the complete feature set, including PDF/A, PDF/UA, form fields, footnotes, tables of contents and XML
Professional	Applications with Word formats, PDF, mail merge and reporting, the ribbon tabs, comments and track changes
Standard	Applications that need a rich text editor with RTF and HTML, tables, images, lists and printing
Trial	Evaluating the product before you buy it

One setup for all editions. The Enterprise, Professional and Standard editions are installed with the same setup of the full version; the trial has a setup of its own. See Choose the Setup.
Pricing. The price list of TX Text Control .NET for WPF offers the Professional and Enterprise editions, each as a single developer license and as a team license. For questions about the Standard edition, contact the Text Control sales team.
No Express edition. Text Control's free Express edition exists only for Windows Forms, as TX Text Control.NET for Windows Forms 34.0 Express.exe. There is no free edition of the WPF product.
The trial version is fully featured and free for 30 days; Trial Version says what it may be used for.

Licensing Overview explains the licenses in detail.

Features by Edition

The following features differ between the editions, as Text Control's feature comparison for TX Text Control .NET for WPF lists them:

Feature	Enterprise	Professional	Standard
Headers and footers, document sections, page columns	Yes	Yes	No
Text frames, drawings and shapes	Yes	Yes	No
Hypertext links	Yes	Yes	No
1D and 2D barcodes	Yes	Yes	No
Comments and track changes	Yes	Yes	No
Document protection	Yes	Yes	No
Excel formulas in tables	Yes	Yes	No
Merge fields, reporting and mail merge, Data Source Manager	Yes	Yes	No
Ribbon control	Yes	Yes	No
Page rendering engine	Yes	Yes	No
Footnotes	Yes	No	No
Form fields	Yes	No	No
Table of contents	Yes	No	No
Stylesheet programming	Yes	No	No
XML programming	Yes	No	No
Stylesheet formatting	Yes	Partly	Partly

Every edition contains the core of the editor:

Character and paragraph formatting, bulleted and numbered lists, tables with table headers, and images
Page and document settings, zooming, and printing with print preview
The clipboard, search and replace, and undo and redo over several levels
The built-in dialog boxes and the toolbars: ButtonBar, RulerBar and StatusBar
Marked text fields, data binding, and loading from and saving to databases
Unicode, multi-language support and the 64-bit version

The comparison marks spell checking as partly supported in all editions: the editor underlines and corrects misspelled words once a spell checker of TX Spell .NET for WPF, a separate product, is connected through the SpellChecker property.

File Formats by Edition

Format	Enterprise	Professional	Standard
RTF and HTML	Yes	Yes	Yes
DOCX and DOC	Yes	Yes	No
XLSX	Yes	Yes	No
PDF export and import	Yes	Yes	No
PDF/A (PDF/A-3a and PDF/A-3b)	Yes	No	No
PDF/UA (accessible PDF)	Yes	No	No
XML, DTD and CSS	Yes	No	No
Markdown	Yes	No	No

Supported File Formats lists every format with the value your code passes to Load and Save.

Check the Edition at Run Time

WPF.TextControl.GetVersionInfo returns a VersionInfo, whose Level property tells which edition the application runs with. The reference lists this property under the name of its type, ProductLevel; in code, it is Level. The following handler of a button in MainWindow.xaml.cs shows it:

using System.Windows;
using TXTextControl;

private void editionButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // Show the edition, for example "Professional"
    VersionInfo versionInfo = textControl1.GetVersionInfo();
    MessageBox.Show(versionInfo.Level.ToString());
}

Level returns a value of VersionInfo.ProductLevel: Enterprise, Professional or Standard for the three editions, and Trial for the trial version.

Editions and Feature Availability

The Editions

Features by Edition

File Formats by Edition

Check the Edition at Run Time

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