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<hr><body><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:0.00mm; margin-bottom:0.00mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">This library provides document layout and printing facilities for the desktop only.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">Within RichTextBoxDesktop.dll  for the desktop you will find the following objects.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><br></span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><b>RichTextBoxDesktop </b></span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">The  RichTextBoxDesktop object encapsulates and provides access to a Windows
Forms RichTextBox control. The control has been enhanced with page setup, preview
and printing facilities. The code for printing is based upon a Microsoft article in
MSDN (Microsoft Developers Network).</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">Text within the RichTextBoxDesktop may be formatted in terms of font face, script,
font size, fore and back colour, bold, italic, underline and strikeout. Lines and
paragraphs may be left, right or both left and right  indented and bulleted. They may
be left, right or centre aligned on the page and paragraphs may have a hanging indent.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">Tabs and manual page breaks may be inserted if needed and pagination is automatic
at print time. </span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">A Page Setup dialog may be used to set the paper size and the orientation to portrait
or landscape. All four margins may be specified. The printed page may be previewed
before printing. Note that there is a "feature" in this dialog when the Operating
Measurement System is set to metric. This dialog holds margin values as Imperial and
on a metric system converts them from Imperial when the dialog opens and back
when it closes. The bug is in converting from Imperial when the dialog opens when it
seems that it merely muliplies an Imperial inch value by 10 rather than by 25.4. For
example setting a margin of 50mm then closing and reopening the dialog will show a
margin value of 19.7mm. The 50mm has been correctly converted and saved to an
Imperial value of 1.97 inches (and so will print correctly) but has wrongly been re-converted by multiplying by 10 rather than 25.4. From this it can be seen that the
default margin of 10mm displayed on the first opening of the dialog was intended to
be 1 inch or 25.4mm. This "feature" is inherited by .NET 2.0, presumably to avoid
breaking earlier code that works round it but a property to solve the problem was
introduced. This property is provided here as PageSetupMetric and by default this
library sets it True so the above behaviour will not be seen. To see the above
behaviour, or if an Imperial system is having problems with user margin settings, set
this property to False. Note that metric margins are not retained entirely accurately
owing to the conversion, with limited precision, to and from Imperial units.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">Note therefore, from the previous paragraph, that the values for the LeftMargin,
RightMargin, TopMargin and BottomMargin properties are always hundreths of an
inch, even on a metric system.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">It is envisaged that normally a RichTextBoxDesktop object would be hidden and used
to build and print a document but there is nothing to stop it being used as a visible
control.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">No events are provided for the control. If the control is visible and events are required
they may be added using the ControlEvents library by the same author.</span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><br></span></font><p style="margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; text-indent:0mm; margin-top:1.76mm; margin-bottom:1.76mm;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><b>FontDialog </b></span></font><div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt">The FontDialog object encapsulates and provide access to a Windows Forms
FontDialog control to enable users to easily set the font properties for a document.</span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"> </div></body></html>
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