# Document Processing

> Three Windows Forms tutorials in code: a report built with ServerTextControl, DOCX, PDF and PDF/A output, and printing with a dialog, a preview or none.

- **Product:** TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms
- **Section:** Documentation
- **Kind:** Topic
- **Path:** TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms > Getting Started > Document Processing
- **475 words**
- **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/
- **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/llms.txt
- **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt

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Much of what a Windows Forms application does with documents happens in code rather than in the editor: building a report, converting a file, printing a letter. Three tutorials show these tasks with `ServerTextControl`, the document engine without a user interface, and with the `TextControl` on your form, each as a few button handlers.

### Choose a Tutorial

| Tutorial | You learn to | Main members |
|---|---|---|
| [Create a Document Programmatically](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/create/llms-full.txt) | Build a document with formatted text, a table, an image and a header, and show it in the editor | `ServerTextControl`, `Selection`, `Tables`, `Images`, `HeadersAndFooters` |
| [Save as DOCX and PDF](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/save-docx-pdf/llms-full.txt) | Export the editor's document, convert files without the editor, save to byte arrays and create PDF/A | `Save`, `StreamType`, `BinaryStreamType` |
| [Print a Document](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/print/llms-full.txt) | Print with the print dialog, show a preview, print without a dialog and print files | `Print`, `PrintPreview`, `FormattingPrinter` |

### Before You Start

- Complete [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-editor/first-application/llms-full.txt). The tutorials add buttons to its form with the `TextControl` named `textControl1`.
- Read [ServerTextControl](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/overview/components/servertextcontrol/llms-full.txt) in the Overview if the component is new to you: it explains why it has to be initialized with `Create` and disposed.

The tutorials build on each other in the order above, but each one can be followed on its own.

### After These Tutorials

- [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): fill templates with data instead of building documents in code.
- [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/pdf/llms-full.txt): PDF options, PDF forms and digital signatures.
- [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/document-processing/llms-full.txt): creating, loading, converting and printing documents in detail.

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## In This Section

- [Create a Document Programmatically](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/create/llms-full.txt): Build a report in Windows Forms with ServerTextControl and Selection: fonts, a table with a repeating header row, a PNG logo and a page header, saved as DOCX.
- [Print a Document](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/print/llms-full.txt): Print a Windows Forms TextControl document with the print dialog, PrintPreview or a PrintDocument for pages and copies, and print files with ServerTextControl.
- [Save as DOCX and PDF](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/save-docx-pdf/llms-full.txt): Convert documents in Windows Forms: export the TextControl document as DOCX and PDF, convert DOC files with ServerTextControl, save byte arrays and PDF/A.

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## Nearby

- **Previous:** [Load and Save Documents](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-editor/load-save/llms-full.txt)
- **Next:** [Create a Document Programmatically](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/document-processing/create/llms-full.txt)