Which editor to choose

RayCraft has more than one editor. They are made for different jobs, and this page helps you pick.

	RayCraft Write	RichTextEditor	DocumentEditor
Package	RayCraft.Write (the Rte editor)	the RayCraft Complete package	the RayCraft Complete package
For	content of web pages, articles, help, e-mail, notes	a formatted text box in a form	office-style documents with pages
Value	clean, filtered HTML	a text with a format of your choice (HTML, Markdown, plain text, RTF, Word, ODT, DOC)	a document model with files (Word, ODT, RTF, DOC, HTML, Markdown)
Tables, pictures, file library	yes, with a library of files, folders and upload	tables and pictures in the compact toolbar	tables, pictures, sections
Comments, revisions, accessibility check	yes	no	comments and tracked changes in documents
Tracked changes	yes (<ins> and <del>, Word tracked changes on export and import)	no	yes
Pages, headers, footers	page view and print page break	no	full page layout
Word and PDF	Word export and import, PDF through your renderer or the print dialog	Word as a value format	Word, PDF export and many formats
Table of contents, footnotes	yes	no	yes
Mail merge, shared editing, locked parts	yes	no	no
Needs a server	the C# library does cleaning, export and storage; the editor runs in the browser	no, it is a normal Blazor component	no

How to choose:

• You store HTML that your site shows to readers, or you need review features, a file library, tables with sorting and formulas, Word or PDF files: RayCraft Write.
• You need a formatted text field in a form, with a string value: RichTextEditor. It stays small on purpose; when it is not enough, Write is the next step.
• You edit whole documents with pages the way an office program does: DocumentEditor.

WysiwygEditor (Lumen.Blazor.Editor) is a separate small editor that follows the Lumen look; it is not compared here.

There is also a free example, examples/Rte.Lite, that shows a reduced Write editor with the basics.