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How to convert rtf email with attachments to pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to convert rtf email with attachments to pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to convert rtf email with attachments to pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript. It can convert rtf email with attachments to pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do convert rtf email with attachments to pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Simply copy and paste in your VB.NET project or application you and then run your app! Applying VB.NET application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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Program.vb
      
Imports System.Drawing.Printing Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports Bytescout.PDF Imports Bytescout.PDF.Converters Imports Font = Bytescout.PDF.Font Imports SolidBrush = Bytescout.PDF.SolidBrush Module Program Sub Main() Try ' Parse MessageContents using MsgReader Library ' MsgReader library can be obtained from: https://github.com/Sicos1977/MSGReader Using msg = New MsgReader.Outlook.Storage.Message("RtfSampleEmailWithAttachment.msg") ' Get Sender information Dim from = msg.GetEmailSender(False, False) ' Message sent datetime Dim sentOn = msg.SentOn ' Recipient To information Dim recipientsTo = msg.GetEmailRecipients(MsgReader.Outlook.RecipientType.[To], False, False) ' Recipient CC information Dim recipientsCc = msg.GetEmailRecipients(MsgReader.Outlook.RecipientType.Cc, False, False) ' Recipient BCC information Dim recipientBcc = msg.GetEmailRecipients(MsgReader.Outlook.RecipientType.Bcc, False, False) ' Message subject Dim subject = msg.Subject ' Get Message Body Dim msgBody = msg.BodyRtf ' Convert RTF to HTML msgBody = RtfPipe.Rtf.ToHtml(msgBody) ' Prepare PDF docuemnt Using outputDocument As Document = New Document() ' Add registration keys outputDocument.RegistrationName = "demo" outputDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Add page Dim page As Page = New Page(PaperFormat.A4) outputDocument.Pages.Add(page) ' Default font and brush Dim font As Font = New Font(StandardFonts.Times, 12) Dim brush As Brush = New SolidBrush() ' Add Email contents Dim topMargin As Integer = 0 topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;File Name: {msg.FileName}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;From: {from}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;Sent On: {(If(sentOn.HasValue, sentOn.Value.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm"), ""))}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;To: {recipientsTo}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(recipientsCc) Then topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;CC: {recipientsCc}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) End If If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(recipientBcc) Then topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;BCC: {recipientBcc}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) End If topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString({code}quot;Subject: {subject}", font, brush, 20, topMargin) topMargin += 20 page.Canvas.DrawString("Message body and attachments in next page.", font, brush, 20, topMargin) ' Convert Html body to PDF in order to retain all formatting. Using converter As HtmlToPdfConverter = New HtmlToPdfConverter() converter.PageSize = PaperKind.A4 converter.Orientation = Bytescout.PDF.Converters.PaperOrientation.Portrait ' Convert input HTML to stream Dim byteArrayBody As Byte() = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(msgBody) Dim inputStream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(byteArrayBody) ' Create output stream to store generated PDF file Using outputStream = New MemoryStream() ' Convert HTML to PDF converter.ConvertHtmlToPdf(inputStream, outputStream) ' Create new document from generated output stream Dim docContent As Document = New Document(outputStream) ' Append all pages to main PDF For Each item As Page In docContent.Pages outputDocument.Pages.Add(item) Next ' Get attachments from message (if any, and append to document) If msg.Attachments.Count > 0 Then For Each itmAttachment As MsgReader.Outlook.Storage.Attachment In msg.Attachments ' Get Memory Stream Dim attachmentMemoryStream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(itmAttachment.Data) ' Append Attachment Dim docAttachment As Document = New Document(attachmentMemoryStream) ' Append all pages to main PDF For Each item As Page In docAttachment.Pages outputDocument.Pages.Add(item) Next Next End If ' Save output file outputDocument.Save("result.pdf") ' Open output file Process.Start("result.pdf") End Using End Using End Using End Using Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine(ex.Message) Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to exit...") Console.ReadLine() End Try End Sub End Module

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packages.config
      
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="MsgReader" version="3.4.1" targetFramework="net45" /> <package id="OpenMcdf" version="2.2.1.3" targetFramework="net45" /> </packages>

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