# Settings

`TextFormatProvider` exports a `RadFixedDocument` to plain text. The export settings provide options to customize the output.

Through the `TextFormatProviderSettings` class you can 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` accepts a `TextFormatProviderSettings` instance. **Example 2** shows how to apply the settings created in **Example 1** when exporting a `RadFixedDocument` to a 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](https://www.telerik.com/document-processing-libraries/documentation/libraries/radpdfprocessing/formats-and-conversion/plain-text/textformatprovider)