Rich Edit Document Automation

The DevExpress RichEdit Document Server is a word processing engine designed to fully automate common word processing requirements and use-case scenarios. It is the non-visual equivalent of the DevExpress RichEdit Control, with complete functionality available via its powerful API. Features include:

Mail merge with master-detail support

• The DevExpress Document Server offers comprehensive mail merge options for a variety of business requirements. With it, you can generate many unique document types, including form letters, mailing shots, mailing labels, and personalized business documents. It supports images, and offers enhanced configurability and processing through multiple mail merge specific events. For advanced use cases, you can implement and register your own URI stream provider to intercept custom field codes. In addition, The Document Server ships with Master-Detail mail merge support, allowing you to combine the utility of the Document Server and document variables to create custom reports (including catalogs, header/detail invoices or statements).

Extended text formatting options

• Character Formatting: Characters can be formatted using different settings for font, font size, character style - bold, italics, underlined, strike-through style and different colors for background and foreground.
• Paragraph Formatting: Formatting options for paragraphs include alignment, indentation, variable paragraph and line spacing.
• Lists: Supports bulleted, numbered and mixed lists.
• Document formatting can be stored and applied by using styles. Styles facilitate quick modification of a document's formatting and allow centralized control of formatting options. The editor supports both paragraph and character based styles, as well as multiple style inheritance. Stylesheets are compatible with MS Word.

Comprehensive table support

• Insert rows, columns and cells.
• Split and merge cells and split the table.
• Align cell content horizontally and vertically.
• Delete cells, columns and rows.

Floating objects

• The DevExpress Document Server supports floating objects (pictures and text boxes) within a document - including rotation of floating objects using its API.

Document protection and end-user restrictions

• Password protect an entire document against editing, and selectively restrict modifying the document in certain document ranges. When document protection is active, authenticated users can edit only the specific document ranges to which the permissions are assigned. Editable ranges can be highlighted and enclosed in brackets.
• The DevExpress document protection model is based on the RTF 1.9.1 specification (read-only password protection and protection exceptions sections) and is therefore compatible with the Microsoft® Word® document protection feature.

Snap Document Automation

The DevExpress Snap Report Server allows you to create and customize Snap documents on the server via its straightforward API. Though it does not offer a visual interface, you can use all the capabilities of Snap Reports directly from code.

Snap Report documents on the server

• Generate reports from scratch and fully customize them using the Snap API.
• Save and load Snap Report documents.

Text formatting, styles, tables and lists

• Use a rich set of text formatting features and create custom styles for document elements (characters, paragraphs, lists and tables).

Export Snap Report documents

• Export to PDF, Microsoft Word formats (DOCX, DOC and RTF) and other popular file formats (TXT, ODT, EPUB).

Charts, barcodes, and more...

• Full support for embedded charts, barcodes, hyperlinks and check boxes.
• Full support of all features provided by the DevExpress Rich Edit Document Automation.

Barcode Generation Library

With built-in support for numerous industry standard barcode types, the DevExpress Document Server allows you to easily generate barcode images within your .NET application.

Supported Barcode types

You can set specific options for each barcode type listed below and generate an image for use in your application or for insertion into a document.

Zip Compression

The Devexpress Document Server includes a .NET Compression Library that's written with 99% managed code and available in Medium-Trust environments (stream and memory array compression/decompression operations).

Create and read zip files

• Create new zip files or update existing zip files on disk or in memory
• Zip or unzip to and from disks or memory

.NET stream and byte arrays

• Compress or decompress .NET stream
• Compress or decompress byte arrays

Passwords and encryption

• Zip password encryption with support for AES encryption of 128, 192, and 256 bits
• Supports different encryption passwords for each file

Comments, overwrites and more...

• Set individual file comments
• Allow file overwrite on a per file basis
• Programmatically filter files to process
• Progress tracking mechanism that allows cancelling archive operations
• Comprehensive API that enables you to control each archive item and all actions
• Object model designed for easy extensibility

Unit Conversion

This library provides you with a set of extension methods for the System.Double data type. It enables you to easily perform conversion between different units of measurement and to operate with quantity values, i.e. physical values expressed in units of measurement.

Supported units of measurement

• Area
• Distance
• Energy
• Force
• Information
• Magnetism
• Mass
• Power
• Pressure
• Speed
• Temperature
• Time
• Volume