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Document Layout

  • Jan 14, 2025

The document layout represents the physical model of the document, constructed by the Layout Engine from the logical Document Model. The hierarchical structure of the document layout is illustrated in the picture below.

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You can explore the document layout using Layout API.

Page settings are specified for each document section via the Section.Page and the Section.Margins properties. The Section.Columns property provides access to columns defined in the current section via the SectionColumns interface. To divide a section into columns, use the SectionColumns.CreateUniformColumns method to create a columns layout and the SectionColumns.SetColumns method to apply the layout.

To determine the correspondence between logical and physical document structures, the RichEditControl.GetPositionFromPoint and the RichEditControl.GetBoundsFromPosition methods can be helpful. The RichEditView.GetCursorBounds method enables you to determine the location and dimensions of the rectangle, which encompasses the cursor in the current view.