# Display formatted text

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-formatted-text/16820>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 31, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-formatted-text/16820 "2018-01-31T13:02:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rudi.putzeys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce7236/32.png) [@rudi.putzeys](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rudi.putzeys)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-formatted-text/16820/1 "2018-01-31T13:02:08Z")

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Hi all,

we have rich text formatted text stored in a SQL-DB. The text is stored by another programm.  
Is there any possibility to display this text (formatted) in Ignition without the rtf-code?

This is how it looks now in Ignition:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/7/73580c36e749fed8573e039b17bd037267ed780f.png)

Thanx,

Rudi

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-formatted-text/16820/2 "2018-01-31T13:34:05Z")

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Have you tried the Document Viewer component? Setting the Content Type to “text/rtf” should probably do the trick.

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**Author:** ![rudi.putzeys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce7236/32.png) [@rudi.putzeys](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rudi.putzeys)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-formatted-text/16820/3 "2018-01-31T14:36:15Z")

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Thanx, that already helped!  
Now we’re getting this:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/8/84a3e08165ac5e973920a1d9ae2afa6ad54ac8ab.png)  
I changed the font in the text area (left) to Tahoma 16, just as in the rtf-text, just to compare them.  
I tried changing the font of the document viewer but that doesn’t help as the font is specified in the text…  
Still weird the sizes are so different…