Convert html table into .pdf and send in Email using .Net mail class "smtp"

Question

I have a email that's send out as a Receipt to a payment. This email contains a HTML Table that contains all the information.It writes that table as a body of the email.

         protected void btnSendEmail_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          var stringWrite = new StringWriter();
            var htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
            Table1.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
 string sBody = stringWrite.ToString();
    }

So the body of the email is the Receipt. I want to convert that HTML table that goes in the email as a body with all the values in it into a pdf and send it as a attachment. Please let me know if you know how to. Thanks

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '17 at 16:53

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Use the .Net Library hiqpdf (you can install it from nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/hiqpdf/). It can generate pdf from the HTML you provide to it. Then use the byte array returned by that method and add it as attachment with the name containing .pdf extension:

Attachment att = new Attachment(new MemoryStream(bytes), name);

answered Oct 17 '17 at 16:53

Gurvinder Singh

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No if i add any Nuget packages it will disrupt the Web.Config that causes errors any other method ? – Simple Code Oct 17 '17 at 17:14
Why not download the dll and then reference it? – Gurvinder Singh Oct 17 '17 at 17:46
I found a better way. Thanks for your Reply i will post that so you could know how to too. Thank s – Simple Code Oct 17 '17 at 19:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '17 at 19:46

So i found a way of doing it so. Pick up where i left off.

    string sBody = stringWrite.ToString();
  StringReader sr = new StringReader(stringWrite.ToString());
        Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 10f, 0f);
        HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);

Where we send email

        msg.Subject = sSubject;

        msg.Body = sBody;

        msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

        var smpt = new SmtpClient();
        smpt.Port = ###;
        using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, memoryStream);
            pdfDoc.Open();
            htmlparser.Parse(sr);
            pdfDoc.Close();
            byte[] bytes = memoryStream.ToArray();
            memoryStream.Close();
            msg.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(new MemoryStream(bytes), "RECEIPT.pdf"));
            smpt.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
 smpt.Send(msg);

very Simple you need iTextSharp for this that's all and it has a pdfwriter option that will write it for you and send it in email. thanks for viewing. Credit to this POST

Convert html table into .pdf and send in Email using .Net mail class "smtp"

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