The NOV Rich Text Editor is a fully featured, cross-platform text processor which aims to deliver fast and robust text and document processing abilities to your applications.

NOV Rich Text Editor was built from the ground up to bridge the gap between HTML and old text processing models (Word), and at the same time to deliver features not found in either of them. As a result NOV Text Editor can edit both word-like and html documents.

The main features of the Text Editor control are:
– Character Formatting
– Paragraph Formatting & Styles
– Bullets and Numbering
– Tables
– Sections
– Group Blocks
– Table of Contents
– Fields
– Hyperlinks & Bookmarks
– Mail Merge
– Spell Checking
– Foreign language support
– Image Formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, Animated GIF, EMF, WMF
– Text Formats – DOCX, TXT, RTF, HTML, NTB and NTX, EPUB, PDF (export only)
– Printing
– Advanced Editing Features
– And some Unique Features as:

Performance
NOV Text is the World’s fastest text processor and is able to process huge amounts of text. It can easily handle 1000+ page documents. The control is approximately five times faster than MS Word in both RTF import and layout processing speed.

Presentation
Features text processing features found in desktop publishing applications like the ability to apply images, gradients and stroke to all text elements (blocks, text, tables etc.).

Open URL feature
The control can open URL with HTML directly, just like a browser.

Paging Control
Supports page formatting instructions at every level of the document tree including tables and floating blocks. This means you can insert page breaks inside table cells or floating blocks, which is not achieved by any other text processing program.

Widgets
You can embed every other widget found in NOV inside the text content which allows you to build HTML like interfaces. The Widgets can be persisted in text binary and xml formats (NTB and NTX), printed and exported to PDF.