Sources for RadBook

[Eduan Marais]

HI.

What are the different sources that can be used for the RadBook? I know that you can use images, but what else?.
Can you use a word/ppt/pdf document as a source? Up to now, I had to convert all pages to images, load them in an observable collection, and point the collection as the source for the RadBook.

Can I assign a word document as a source, without doing any conversions?

Regards

Eduan

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hi Eduan Marais,

RadBook is an ItemsControl whih accepts any XAML content. It do not provide converters for PDF or Word documents for the moment.

Regards,
Valentin.Stoychev
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[Robert]

A PDF souce would be brilliant for a future release.

[Kiril Stanoev]

Hello Robert,

Thanks for the feedback. We will probably be working on a PDF viewer during Q3 of 2011. However I cannot bind to that 100%, so stay tuned for updates.

Kind regards,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team

[Kjetil]

Any news on the PDF capabilities of the RadBook? Have you started working on it?

sincerely,

Kjetil Klaussen

[Tina Stancheva]

Hello Kjetil,

With the Q3 2011 release we introduced the beta version of our PDF Viewer. You can examine its demo here.

Best wishes,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Роберт]

You'd use RichTextBox control

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Vitali,

At the moment the PDFViewer can be used as a stand-alone control for displaying pdf files or along with the RadRichTextBox control to display a pdf document exported by the RadRichTextBox control.

However, the PDFViewer cannot yet be integrated with the RadBook control. But the RadRichTextBox can easily be integrated with the RadBook control which allows displaying text documents in the RadBook control out-of-the-box. This demo demonstrates such an integration.

Kind regards,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Роберт]

I know that. Not only RadRichTextBox, but .NET RichTextBox as well.

My previous post was the reply to ones, who are looking for displaying DOC files. They could export DOC as RTF and show them out in the Book control.

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Vitali,

I am sorry for the misunderstanding and thank you for sharing that information. I am sure it will be highly appreciated.

All the best,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Роберт]

By the way the Glyph quality inside RichTextBox is quite well. ;)

[Роберт]

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