>>>>Thanks Gary. Looks interesting. Gotta love how the standard edition does not support DOCX nor hyperlinks.
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>>>Docx is actually supported, it's only that you need to decide programmatically which format it is (which is easy - docx is actually a zipped set of folders, so its first two bytes are PK, nod to Phil Katz). Hyperlinks in the PDF, that yes, only extended version.
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>>>>I'm curious about how you are using the control. Are you keeping letters in DOC files while using the control to import the DOCs for editing and for 'exporting' to PDF'? Does this allow you to avoid having MSWord installed on the workstation(s)... bypassing Word automation? Are you using the content for html emails?
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>>>My plan for now is to use this primarily for mailmerges, and maybe some editing. The button bar was flaky and caused my VFP to freeze seriously (i.e. had to pull TaskKiller to shoot it down), so I guess I'd have to rebuild the whole toolbar from scratch. Exporting to PDF (which I previously did via Adobe's PostScript driver and GhostScript, no go anymore, PS driver won't go on 64-bit, last version being from 1991) is also an option, either immediately on save (so each document is written only once, period), or after some delay.
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>>So the version of TextControl that you are using has toolbar issues in the control and it freezes VFP? Great.
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>Only on my machine, which is non-standard anyway. And I did a thorough comparison with TextDynamic, which is also great, but a few key options that TxControl has out-of-the-box are expensive add-ons. And I used TextDynamic before, and it was excellent, and the programmer is a great guy and helped me a lot (even though he doesn't speak Fox).

Dragan - trying to use TextControl on a modal form is a problem. Only modeless. Otherwise the form does not display. Have you encountered the same? Are you doing anything in the form's LOAD or INIT to deal with it? (i have DESKTOP = .t.)

Update: Disregard, found that thisform.visible = .t. was needed in the form's SHOW method.