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4D Write Pro offers 4D users an advanced word-processing tool, fully integrated with your 4D database. Using 4D Write Pro, you can write pre-formatted emails and/or letters containing images, a scanned signature, formatted text and placeholders for dynamic variables. You can also create invoices or reports dynamically, including formatted text and images.

The key features of the product are:

• 4D Write compatibility: a 4D Write Pro object can open and convert legacy 4D Write documents while supporting most of their specific properties.
• Word processing: a 4D Write Pro object embedded in a form provides standard word-processing features, including text and style manipulation, image insertion, import and export, and much more.
• Database integration:
  
  • A 4D Write Pro object can display variable parts which will be filled with data from the database, or data computed by 4D.
  • 4D Write Pro documents can be stored within database fields or on disk.

4D Write Pro is no longer a plug-in but is fully integrated into 4D itself, making it easier to deploy and manage. No additional installation is required; you can add 4D Write Pro areas to your forms and handle 4D Write Pro variables directly in your 4D applications.

However, note that 4D Write Pro uses the same license as 4D Write. You need to have this license installed in your application in order to enable the feature.

Requirements: On Windows, 4D Write Pro features rely on Direct2D. With Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 machines, make sure the Platform Update for Windows has been installed so that the required Direct2D version is available.

This manual is the 4D Write Pro Reference Guide. It covers all 4D Write Pro features, including the user interface and language commands.

Note that 4D Write Pro objects can be handled using specific commands ("4D Write Pro" theme) as well as commands from other 4D themes ("Objects (Forms)" and "Styled Text" themes), documented in the 4D Language Reference manual.