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Roy Magne Klever · Guest

Hi M McFarlane,

Try TRichView at www.TRichView.com

Kind Regards
Roy Magne Klever
www.rmklever.com

Nils Haeck · Guest

Hi,

If you need to rotate images, text, figures, etc, and need "wysiwyg" support
including page thumbnails, have a look at this demo... (download zip file
with executable)
http://www.simdesign.nl/download/dtpdemo.zip

The demo is built around a component we are currently developing (component
finished, working on example demos).

The actual component is 100% native Delphi, and will include full demo
source code. Optionally you can also purchase full source (but more
expensive).

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, because it is not
really focused on working with large blocks of text, it is much more a
"powerpoint" kind of component, with shapes and rubberbands etc.

List of features:

* Each shape supports
* Free rotation around any angle
* Alpha blending on shape level (master alpha)
* Alpha blending on pixel level
* Mirror / Flip
* Effects (brightness, contrast, HSL color adjustments, shadow)
* Hints
* Mouse events, full dragging moving resizing by mouse, keyboard or code
* Edit mode
* AllowSelect, Visible properties
* Preserve aspect ratio (yes or no)

* Shapes have *floating point* precision, not integer. They have properties
DocLeft, DocTop, DocWidth, DocHeight in [mm], DocAngle in [deg]. Position
them very accurately on the page.

* Shapes are internally cached as a bitmap if neccesary, so they do not need
to be redrawn all the time, and can be moved around the document superfast.

* Shapes currently supported: Text, Bitmap, Metafile, Polygon, Polyline,
Freehand

* Shapes can be grouped, with specific resize behaviour per shape (like the
anchors in Delphi). Groups again are shapes in themselves with all the
options. Groups can be ungrouped later. Groups can be also be grouped again
(no limit on nesting).

* Document helpers (grid, dots, checker pattern, snap to grid)

* Alignment functions for shapes (left/center/right, top/middle/bottom)

* Document supports complete LoadFromStream/File and SaveToStream/File. Big
documents are partially loaded when opening, and pages are loaded only when
they are requested.

* Document support multiple pages, all stored conveniently in one file, but
still with quick access to individual pages. Pages have thumbnails. You can
set page transitions. No limit on file size.. supports files larger than
4Gb.

* Document supports printing (to device, or to bitmap), all pages, or range
etc. Print at low (150), medium (300), high (600) or device resolution (in
DPI). Prints even at 2400 or higher DPI, without memory problems (it just
takes a while).

* Document supports Cut/Copy/Paste, internally and with other applications.

* Document supports full Undo (up till any size - configurable). Undo is
done in a very smart, efficient way. Also supports Redo of undone commands.

* Document supports hotzone scrolling, free zooming, zoom to width, zoom to
page, zoom in / out, panning. Zooming and panning does not require a cache
update of the shapes, so *VERY* fast.

* The document is a component, simply drop it from the palette onto your
form, and automatically have a document look with scrollbars etc.

* For the rendering, highly optimized MMX is used.. so fast!

* Fully object oriented approach, fully extendible, fully native Delphi
(except for the inline assembler routines at the low level end).

* Exports to XML, and bitmap formats. Export and import from/to SVG and PDF
in near future.

* Document can be scripted, thus creating kind of Flash animations, or any
other behaviour.

* Demo project with full source - a complete DTP editor demonstrating all
features.

If you're interested, let me know.

Kind regards,

Nils Haeck
www.simdesign.nl

"M McFarlane" <malmcfarlane (AT) netscape (DOT) net> wrote

David Ridgway · Guest

"Nils Haeck" <n.haeck_nospam (AT) chello (DOT) nl> wrote

Nils Haeck · Guest

Oops forgot to mention.. password is: simdesign

Sorry about that!

Kind regards,

Nils

"David Ridgway" <glyfx (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) perthweb.com.au> wrote