What control should I use to display a rich text document?

Hello, carter-greenan,

I don't know of a control to do both.  

If your users have Word available, why not use that for the Richtext document.  It would make printing very simple.  

Cheers,
Randy

Hi Randy, thanks, but it is a Web App, so it needs to be 100% interoperable. There must be some way I can display a simple, printable form?!?

Hello carter-greenan,

How about this?

Fancy Textboxes
http://steveorr.net/freecontrols/textboxes.aspx

Writing Your Own RTF Converter
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx

Regards,

Rimvis

Hi Rimvis,

I have purchased this control, but there does not seem to be a LoadFile property, so I can't work out how to load the document depending on the result of the drop down. I am not trying to tag on another question, but could you just tell me if I'm being really stupid?

Thanks,

Pete

>>I have purchased this control

Which one?

The FreeTextBox Professional control from http://steveorr.net/freecontrols/textboxes.aspx

It looks like FreeTextBox doesn't suport RTF format
http://freetextbox.com/forums/thread/6452.aspx



I would go for the second option:

Writing Your Own RTF Converter
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx

Hi, thanks, I have tried this control but seem to have exactly the same problem. I am assigning the file contents using the following code, but it is returning the output as below!!! :(

   if (DropDownList1.Text == "Coverage For Final Assesesment Submissions")
        {
            Rte1.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("D:\\Akemii\\Template1Coverpageforfinalassessmentsubmissions.rtf");
        }


{\rtf1\adeflang1025\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\adeff0\deff0\stshfdbch13\stshfloch0\stshfhich0\stshfbi0\deflang2057\deflangfe2057{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fcharset0\fprq2{\*\panose 02020603050405020304}Times New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0\fprq2{\*\panose 020b0604020202020204}Arial;} {\f13\fnil\fcharset134\fprq2{\*\panose 02010600030101010101}SimSun{\*\falt Arial Unicode MS};}{\f37\fnil\fcharset134\fprq2{\*\panose 00000000000000000000}@SimSun;}{\f38\froman\fcharset238\fprq2 Times New Roman CE;} {\f39\froman\fcharset204\fprq2 Times New Roman Cyr;}{\f41\froman\fcharset161\fprq2 Times New Roman Greek;}{\f42\froman\fcharset162\fprq2 Times New Roman Tur;}{\f43\fbidi \froman\fcharset177\fprq2 Times New Roman (Hebrew);} {\f44\fbidi \froman\fcharset178\fprq2 Times New Roman (Arabic);}{\f45\froman\fcharset186\fprq2 Times New Roman Baltic;}{\f46\froman\fcharset163\fprq2 Times New Roman (Vietnamese);}{\f48\fswiss\fcharset238\fprq2 Arial CE;} {\f49\fswiss\fcharset204\fprq2 Arial Cyr;}{\f51\fswiss\fcharset161\fprq2 Arial Greek;}{\f52\fswiss\fcharset162\fprq2 Arial Tur;}{\f53\fbidi \fswiss\fcharset177\fprq2 Arial (Hebrew);}{\f54\fbidi \fswiss\fcharset178\fprq2 Arial (Arabic);} {\f55\fswiss\fcharset186\fprq2 Arial Baltic;}{\f56\fswiss\fcharset163\fprq2 Arial (Vietnamese);}}{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue255;\red0\green255\blue0;\red255\green0\blue255;\red255\green0\blue0; \red255\green255\blue0;\red255\green255\blue255;\red0\green0\blue128;\red0\green128\blue128;\red0\green128\blue0;\red128\green0\blue128;\red128\green0\blue0;\red128\green128\blue0;\red128\green128\blue128;\red192\green192\blue192;\red63\green73\blue86;} {\stylesheet{\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24\alang1025 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe2057\loch\f0\hich\af0\dbch\af13\cgrid.............

What control is Rte1?

It is the Rich TextEditor from CodePlex

Thanks for this. I have downloaded this control, but to be honest I think I am totally out of my depth with it!

All I want to do is display a formatted document in my web site with a print button! Is there no idiot-proof way of doing this?