Based on the same core engine as Ecrion XF Rendering Server, the desktop edition is a lightweight version, suitable to be used embedded in your desktop applications. It comes tuned with out-of-the box performance and small memory footprint. In addition to same formatting capabilities as our server product, the desktop edition comes with two .NET controls able to display and edit your documents:
- The XSL-FO Viewer control (shown on the left) provides support for previewing your documents before printing or generating PDF.
- The XSL-FO editor can enhance your applications by providing support for in-place editing of your documents.
XF Desktop Edition comes with the same capabilities as our server version, including:
-Can produce complex PDF, POSTSCRIPT, TIFF documents
-Has full support for compression, font embedding, hyperlinks, bookmarks (outlines), encryption, document security, etc.
-Supports XSL-FO, HTML, WordML, SVG as input formats
-Has comprehensive support for paginated documents.
In addition, it provides two .NET Controls: the XSL-FO Viewer Control and the XSL-FO Editor Control.
Both controls provide out-of-the box features that you can use to easily enhance your desktop applications.
-XSL-FO Viewer Control
-preview your documents
-print, generate PDFs or send PDFs by email
-zoom and navigate the document
-XSL-FO Editor Control
-in-place editing your documents, provides the same support like a rich text editor, including changing font, colors, etc.
-You can also insert images, tables, hyperlinks, etc.
-Zoom, print, generate PDFs and send PDFs by email.
Other features
-Small memory footprint
-Easy deployement using Merge Modules (MSM files)
