ProEdit.Printing.Avalonia 0.1.0

ProEdit

ProEdit is a modular .NET 10 document editing, rendering, reporting, and collaboration platform for desktop and embedded application scenarios. It combines a rich document object model, layout and rendering engines, import/export pipelines, Avalonia controls, reporting components, printing services, real-time collaboration infrastructure, and automation integrations in a package-oriented repository.

The codebase is designed as a set of composable libraries rather than a single monolithic application. Hosts can adopt the low-level document model, the FlowDocument/RichTextBox controls, the Word-style editor shell, the reporting designer/viewer, the collaboration stack, or the format conversion services independently.

Capabilities

• Rich document model with sections, paragraphs, runs, tables, lists, styles, shapes, fields, notes, content controls, mail merge data, document protection, comments, citations, metadata, and revision-oriented structures.
• Layout and rendering pipelines for pagination, line breaking, tables, floating objects, shapes, proofing decorations, and Skia-backed output.
• Import/export and conversion support across Open XML DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, PDF, PostScript/EPS, XPS/OXPS, and internal document/FlowDocument models.
• Avalonia UI components including FlowDocumentView, editable RichTextBox, ribbon controls, Word-style editor surfaces, print UI, and reporting designer/viewer controls.
• Editing infrastructure for selection, undo/redo, clipboard formats, proofing, formatting state, table editing, content controls, headers/footers, comments, track changes, and command routing.
• Reporting stack with report definitions, data connectors, expression evaluation, materialization, document composition, export, RDL serialization, service orchestration, and desktop authoring/viewing.
• Collaboration core with operation batches, position tokens, snapshots, persistence, protocol models, transports, WebSocket relay support, and UI state/view models.
• Automation and integration components for VBA-style runtime support, macro orchestration, grammar proofing plugins, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools/resources.
• Compatibility layers for WinUI/Uno rich text APIs and RichEditBox-style host scenarios.

Repository Structure

Architecture Map

NuGet Packages

The table lists packable library projects in this repository. Desktop/sample hosts such as ProEdit.Word.App, ProEdit.Reporting.App, ProEdit.FlowDocument.App, and ProEdit.WinUICompat.App are source-built applications and are intentionally not listed as packages.

Area	Package	NuGet	Purpose
Core	ProEdit.Primitives		Shared primitive types for geometry and document infrastructure.
Core	ProEdit.Documents		Core document object model.
Core	ProEdit.Documents.Data		Document data binding and reporting data integration.
Core	ProEdit.Documents.Rtf		RTF parsing and serialization.
Layout	ProEdit.Layout		Pagination and document layout engine.
Rendering	ProEdit.Rendering		Rendering abstractions and composition contracts.
Rendering	ProEdit.Rendering.Skia		Skia-backed renderer.
FlowDocument	ProEdit.FlowDocument		Avalonia-friendly FlowDocument object model.
FlowDocument	ProEdit.FlowDocument.Documents		Conversion between FlowDocument and core documents.
FlowDocument	ProEdit.FlowDocument.Avalonia		Avalonia FlowDocumentView control.
FlowDocument	ProEdit.FlowDocument.IO		Multi-format FlowDocument/document conversion services.
Rich Text	ProEdit.RichText.Avalonia		Editable Avalonia rich text control.
Rich Text	ProEdit.RichText.Avalonia.Collaboration		Collaboration integration for the Avalonia rich text control.
Shared Controls	ProEdit.Controls.Skia		Shared Skia document host and framework-neutral control contracts.
Shared Controls	ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Avalonia		Avalonia read-only viewer and editable document controls.
Shared Controls	ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Uno		Uno Platform read-only viewer and editable document controls.
Shared Controls	ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Maui		.NET MAUI read-only viewer and editable document controls.
Editing	ProEdit.Editing		Editing, selection, clipboard, proofing, and command services.
Word	ProEdit.Word.Editor		Word-processing editor engine.
Word	ProEdit.Word.Avalonia		Avalonia editor UI and resources.
Ribbon	ProEdit.Ribbon		Ribbon model and command abstractions.
Ribbon	ProEdit.Ribbon.Avalonia		Avalonia ribbon controls and theme resources.
Formats	ProEdit.OpenXml		Open XML/DOCX import and export.
Formats	ProEdit.Html		HTML import/export helpers.
Formats	ProEdit.Markdown		Markdown import/export helpers.
Formats	ProEdit.Pdf		PDF domain abstractions.
Formats	ProEdit.Pdf.Documents		PDF integration with the document model.
Formats	ProEdit.Pdf.PdfPig		PDF parsing via PdfPig.
Formats	ProEdit.Pdf.PdfSharp		PDF generation via PDFsharp.
Formats	ProEdit.PostScript		PostScript/EPS conversion support.
Formats	ProEdit.Xps		XPS/OXPS conversion support.
Printing	ProEdit.Printing		Printing contracts and shared models.
Printing	ProEdit.Printing.Documents		Document-to-print conversion.
Printing	ProEdit.Printing.Skia		Skia print pipeline.
Printing	ProEdit.Printing.System		System print integration.
Printing	ProEdit.Printing.Avalonia		Avalonia print UI.
Collaboration	ProEdit.Collaboration		Collaboration operation model, engine, persistence, and snapshots.
Collaboration	ProEdit.Collaboration.Protocol		Collaboration wire protocol types and codecs.
Collaboration	ProEdit.Collaboration.Transports		Local, shared-file, loopback, and WebSocket transport implementations.
Collaboration	ProEdit.Collaboration.Server		WebSocket relay server components.
Collaboration	ProEdit.Collaboration.UI		Collaboration UI state and view models.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Core		Report definitions, items, parameters, diagnostics, and execution contracts.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Data		Report data sources, data sets, and runtime data access.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Expressions		Report expression evaluation.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Materialization		Materialized report generation.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.DocumentComposition		Report-to-document composition.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Export		Report export to document and page formats.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Rdl		RDL/SSRS report serialization support.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Serialization		JSON report serialization.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Service		Report repository, execution, scheduling, and service orchestration.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Avalonia.Viewer		Avalonia report viewer and preview surface.
Reporting	ProEdit.Reporting.Avalonia.Designer		Avalonia report designer and authoring panes.
Automation	ProEdit.Vba		VBA-style automation abstractions.
Automation	ProEdit.Vba.Runtime		VBA runtime support.
Automation	ProEdit.Macros		Macro orchestration.
MCP	ProEdit.Mcp		Model Context Protocol server, tools, and resources.
MCP	ProEdit.Mcp.Documents		MCP document tools for content controls and mail merge workflows.
MCP	ProEdit.Mcp.Reporting		MCP reporting tools, exports, and connector workflows.
Proofing	ProEdit.Proofing.GrammarApi.Plugin		Grammar API proofing plugin.
Compatibility	ProEdit.WinUICompat		WinUI-style rich text compatibility layer.
Compatibility	ProEdit.WinUICompat.Uno		Uno integration for WinUI compatibility APIs.
Compatibility	ProEdit.WinUICompat.Collaboration		Collaboration integration for WinUI/Uno compatibility controls.

Installation

Install only the packages needed by the host application. For example, an Avalonia editor host typically starts with:

dotnet add package ProEdit.Word.Avalonia
dotnet add package ProEdit.RichText.Avalonia
dotnet add package ProEdit.OpenXml

A reporting host typically starts with:

dotnet add package ProEdit.Reporting.Avalonia.Viewer
dotnet add package ProEdit.Reporting.Service
dotnet add package ProEdit.Reporting.Export

Smaller embedded document hosts can use the shared Skia controls:

dotnet add package ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Avalonia
dotnet add package ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Uno
dotnet add package ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Maui

Build From Source

Prerequisites:

• .NET SDK 10.0.100 or newer compatible SDK, as defined in global.json.
• Optional Uno and MAUI workloads for WinUI/Uno compatibility projects and the MAUI shared-control sample on clean machines:

dotnet workload install wasm-tools wasm-experimental maui-android
# On macOS, use the full MAUI workload when building iOS or Mac Catalyst heads.
dotnet workload install wasm-tools wasm-experimental maui

Build and test the full solution:

dotnet restore ProEdit.slnx
dotnet build ProEdit.slnx
dotnet test ProEdit.slnx

Run the primary desktop applications:

dotnet run --project src/ProEdit.Word.App/ProEdit.Word.App.csproj
dotnet run --project src/ProEdit.Reporting.App/ProEdit.Reporting.App.csproj
dotnet run --project src/ProEdit.FlowDocument.App/ProEdit.FlowDocument.App.csproj

Run the shared control samples:

dotnet run --project samples/ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Avalonia.Sample/ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Avalonia.Sample.csproj
dotnet run --project samples/ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Uno.Sample/ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Uno.Sample.csproj
dotnet build -f net10.0-maccatalyst samples/ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Maui.Sample/ProEdit.Controls.Skia.Maui.Sample.csproj

Run benchmarks:

dotnet run -c Release --project benchmarks/ProEdit.Layout.Benchmarks/ProEdit.Layout.Benchmarks.csproj

Build and serve documentation:

dotnet tool restore
./build-docs.sh
./serve-docs.sh

On Windows:

dotnet tool restore
./build-docs.ps1
./serve-docs.ps1

Development Quality Bar

• Directory.Build.props centralizes .NET 10, nullable reference types, implicit usings, package metadata, symbol packages, repository metadata, and MIT licensing.
• CI builds and tests on Ubuntu, Windows, and macOS, then packs NuGet artifacts.
• The test suite covers document model behavior, layout, FlowDocument conversion, rich text editing, Open XML, Markdown, HTML, PDF integration, printing, reporting, collaboration, VBA runtime, WinUI compatibility, and Avalonia headless UI surfaces.
• BenchmarkDotNet coverage exists for layout and large-document synchronization paths.
• DocFX documentation is built from the repository and deployed through the docs workflow.

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Architecture
• Project Map
• FlowDocument
• RichTextBox
• Shared Skia Controls
• Build and Test
• Contributing

License

ProEdit is licensed under the MIT License.