Xamarin.Forms WordsProcessing

WordsProcessing for Xamarin is a powerful .NET Standard library, which enables creation and modification of flow documents such as DOCX, RTF, HTML and plain text, importing Doc and Dot files, as well as export to PDF. It has never been easier to generate a document or a PDF in your web, mobile or desktop application or on a server.

Documentation on the Telerik WordsProcessing Library

The WordsProcessing library for Xamarin is completely free from dependencies on third-party software or UI. Users can process Microsoft Word file formats without having Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office or any other external library installed on the client or server.

You can handle large data files without ever worrying about performance or memory footprint. With virtually no limitations on the amount of data it can process, the Telerik Xamarin WordsProcessing is optimized to offer unmatched performance. 

WordsProcessing for Xamarin allows you to smoothly export, import, create and modify different file formats. It also allows you to easily convert between different files formats. Take a DOCX and convert it to PDF or grab an RTF or HTML and convert it to PDF or DOCX.

Documentation on how to convert Docx, Doc, Dot, Rtf, Html, Pdf file formats with RadWordsProcessing

The document model of WordsProcessing for Xamarin features all the necessary document elements and features, allowing you to build both simple and sophisticated documents. Some of the capabilities included are:

Characters

Sections

Paragraphs

Tables

Lists

Section formatting

Inlines—runs, images, fields, breaks, bookmarks, hyperlinks, tab stops

Styles and many more

Documentation on the Rich Document Model of RadWordsProcessing

Both inline and floating images of the most popular image types can be used with WordsProcessing for Xamarin. The library supports working with the respective image properties such as Source, Size, Flip, Rotation, AspectRatio and more.

Documentation on Inline and Floating images in RadWordsProcessing

Bookmarks and hyperlinks are an integral part of documents, aiding users in their document navigation or pointing to a specific location in the document or to a webpage. The Xamarin WordsProcessing library readily supports this capability.

Documentation on the bookmarks support in RadWordsProcessing

Should you need to define permissions for certain parts of the document, the permission ranges feature of WordsProcessing for Xamarin is here to help. You can use it to mark certain portions of the document as read only, or to disallow comments, and you can define what permissions apply to different collaborators such as administrators, contributors, editors, owners, etc.

Documentation on the Permission Ranges support in RadWordsProcessing

A common approach to arranging content in a grid-based fashion within a document is tables. WordsProcessing for Xamarin gives you full control over the table properties such as Rows, Columns, Styles, Layout Type and more to help you visually present data in the most impactful fashion.

Documentation on the Tables support in RadWordsProcessing

The document model in WordsProcessing for Xamarin features support for inserting headers and footers in the generated documents. Full customization of the content in the headers and footers is possible, as well as adding watermarks, dates and page numbers and defining whether to position headers and footers on all pages or if different entries will be used for even and odd pages.

Documentation on the Header and Footer support in RadWordsProcessing

The watermark feature in the Telerik Xamarin WordsProcessing library lets you add text or images behind the document content. Easily insert a company logo or a label to specify the document status or mark it as confidential.

Documentation on the Watermark support in RadWordsProcessing

Easily create numbered, bulleted or custom lists with the hierarchical depth you need using the powerful APIs of WordsProcessing for Xamarin.

Documentation on the Bulleted and Numbered Lists support in RadWordsProcessing

Add comments to a specific location in the document to identify an action item that has to be taken with WordsProcessing for Xamarin.

Documentation on the Comments support in RadWordsProcessing

Flow documents feature styles which contain sets of character, paragraph or table style definitions and provide rich editing capabilities for achieving a consistent look over the content in the document with this WordsProcessing feature for Xamarin.

Documentation on the various Style capabilities of RadWordsProcessing

Document themes in WordsProcessing for Xamarin allows specifying colors, fonts and a variety of graphic effects in a document and affect the look and feel of the entire document.

Documentation on the Document Themes support in RadWordsProcessing

With the Xamarin WordsProcessing library, you can create personalized documents to complement your targeted campaign efforts. The mail merge functionality enables you to replace information like name, address or order number in your fixed content template with data from a source of your choice. In this way, you can quickly replicate a document with the correct information for all recipients.

Documentation on the Mail Merge functionality of RadWordsProcessing

With WordsProcessing for Xamarin you can clone or merge DOCX, RTF and HTML documents by specifying which styles should be used during the merge process. What’s more, you can merge only specific document elements like runs and paragraphs from a source doc into a target one.

Documentation on how to Clone and Merge documents with RadWordsPocessing

The Telerik Xamarin WordsProcessing features a convenient API for replacing certain content and allows you to easily amend the document content—perfect when you need to handle extensive brand updates.

Documentation on the Find and Replace capabilities of RadWordsProcessing

Content controls or Structured Document Tags (SDT) enable users to add specific components to the document that can help the user enter input in more convenient manner as well as to restrict the user input to predefined format. The supported components are CheckBox, ComboBox, Date, DropDownList, Image, Citation, Bibliography, and many more.

Documentation on the Content Controls support in RadWordsProcessing.