Settings

Updated on May 11, 2026

TextFormatProvider allows you export a RadFixedDocument to plain text. Additionally, the export settings provide modification options. This article outlines the available settings.

Through the TextFormatProviderSettings class you could specify the following export settings:

Property	Description
LinesSeparator	Determines the string used to separate the lines in the document. The default value is Environment.NewLine.
PagesSeparator	Determines the string used to separate the pages in the document. The default value is "----------- Page{0} ------------".

Create TextFormatProviderSettings

The constructor of the TextFormatProviderSettings class has two overloads:

Constructor	Description
TextFormatProviderSettings()	Initializes a new instance of the class and sets the default values for its properties.
TextFormatProviderSettings(string linesSeparator, string pagesSeparator)	Initializes a new instance of the class and sets the specified values for its properties.

Example 1 shows how to create and specify a particular setting.

Example 1: Create TextFormatProviderSettings

C#

TextFormatProviderSettings settings = new TextFormatProviderSettings("/r/n", "*Page {0}*");

Using TextFormatProviderSettings

The Export() method of TextFormatProvider allows you to pass a TextFormatProviderSettings instance. Example 2 illustrates how to apply the settings created in Example 1, when exporting a RadFixedDocument to string.

Example 2: Apply TextFormatProviderSettings

C#

RadFixedDocument document = new RadFixedDocument();

TextFormatProvider provider = new TextFormatProvider();
//string text = provider.Export(document, settings); // Obsolete since Q4 2025 
string text = provider.Export(document, settings, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));

See Also

• Using TextFormatProvider