Need to view documents? There's nothing better than VSVIEW Classic Edition to quickly and easily view, format, export, and print your documents within Visual Studio.

View!
VSVIEW Classic Edition documents can automatically be loaded into a Web browser, or your Windows application. Users can then zoom, pan, scroll, and navigate the document with unprecedented ease and flexibility. Find and retrieve text, include invisible tags to pop up help or hyperlinks, and more!

Format!
A new Styles property separates format information from content generation, making it easy to create documents with consistent formatting. You have full control of the formatting of paragraphs, tables, fonts, colors, alignment, and justification. Plus, you’ll find options for scaling, cropping, and aligning pictures.

Export!
VSVIEW Classic Edition can export documents to RTF and HTML while preserving all font and paragraph formatting as well as tables. You can work with your RTF document in any RTF enabled program, such as Microsoft Word. Or you can work with your HTML document in a browser, choosing either scrolling or paged HTML mode. Now with PDF export!

Print!
Adding print preview to your application is a snap. A new URL property lets you load a document from a Web site directly into a browser on a client’s machine and print it a on a local or network printer. You also get faster display, the ability to move pages within a document, an optional built in navigation bar, and the ability to define and print complex ranges of document pages. With the VSVIEW Classic Edition documentation, you’ll have access to more sample code and details about each property, event, and method. And sample projects created in Visual Basic and Visual C++ will help you put the control to use immediately.

VSVIEW Classic Edition - Features

RTF/HTML Export
This was the most requested feature for this new version! You can now export documents to RTF and HTML formats, including all font and paragraph formatting, as well as tables. The HTML export filter also allows for paged HTML output, which generates a series of hyperlinked HTML pages.

Internet Awareness
VSVIEW Classic Edition includes a new URL property that allows you to load documents located on your Web site directly into a control hosted by a browser on the client’s machine. You can also monitor the document downloading process and the control state in general.

Tables
Tables have always been one of VSVIEW's most popular features. Now you can create tables with rows that span page breaks, row and column spanning (cell merging), vertical text in table cells, and custom borders on a per-row/per-column basis. You can also add custom contents to individual table cells, suppress repeated values, add spacing before and after each row, and more.

Document Navigation
Allow end users to browse through the preview document, zoom in and out, and print! Navigation with the mouse wheel and keyboard is also supported.

Pictures
You can now clip, tile, and zoom pictures (scale them while preserving aspect ratio). This is especially useful for handling pictures that come from databases and may have varying dimensions.

Styles
Define, apply, save, and load styles that define the properties for pages, paragraphs, characters, and graphical objects! This makes it easy to create documents with consistent formatting, favors separating formatting from content generation, and eliminates the need to save several controls properties in order to restore them after rendering parts of the document that have special formatting.

Page Ranges
You can also include invisible tags in documents and retrieve them using the FindTag and RetrieveTag properties. You can use tags to implement pop-up help, hyperlinks, and many other interesting and useful elements. Also, the new ScrollIntoView method allows you to scroll the control so that a specific part of a page is visible to the user.

Active Documents
Easily retrieve text from a document: search for a string within a document or retrieve the contents of an area on a page. You can also include invisible tags in documents and retrieve them, and use tags to implement pop-up help, hyperlinks, and many other interesting and useful elements. And you can choose to scroll the control so that a specific part of a page is visible to the user.

New Library Structure
VSVIEW included a single OCX file that contained the three controls in the product. In response to your requests, the controls have been split into separate files: VSPrint7.ocx, VSDraw7.ocx, and VSVPort7.ocx. This allows applications that use only one of the controls to become smaller, saving disk space and download time.

Enhanced Documentation
Our documentation is designed so that new users can get started quickly and experienced programmers can find the information they need more easily! We've added more sample code and details about each property, method, and event, as well as sample projects created in Visual Basic and Visual C++.

And Much More
Even more flexibility has been added to the three controls in VSVIEW! VSPrinter7 enhancements include much faster display; persisted paper sizes with save documents; the ability to move pages within a document and to reset the current document; and descriptive error strings. Additional VSDraw7 features have been added, such as mouse wheel support for scrolling; better measurement of strings; and the ability to create strings the preserve their aspect ratio when the control is resized or that stretch both horizontally and vertically when the control is resized. And VSVPort7 now supports the mouse wheel for scrolling and can scroll automatically so that the control that has the keyboard focus remains visible.