Hi,

I am evaluating your product for a project i am working on and i have successfully used the HtmlToPdf.ConvertHtml method to return a PDF to the browser via the response output stream.

I am also trying to use the same method to save convert the HTML to a stream and attach it to an email. Please find a snippet of code below:

MemoryStream pdfStream = new MemoryStream();
HtmlToPdf.ConvertHtml(TextBoxEOContent.Text, pdfStream);
MailMessage email = new MailMessage("test@html2pdf.net", "chris.hey@nepcco.co.uk");
email.Subject = "Testing Essential Objects HTML2PDF";
ContentType contentType = new ContentType();
contentType.MediaType = MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf;
contentType.Name = "Test PDF.pdf";
email.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(pdfStream, contentType));
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("localhost");
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
client.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
client.Send(email);

The email comes through with a file attached as a PDF, however i cannot open it due it being being in the correct format. I have tried changing the content type with no resolution. I have also tried taking the stream output from the ConvertHtml method and passing it into a filestream to write a file to disk, which also doesn't work. It appears that the stream output is fine when writing to the response but not to a MemoryStream.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Chris Hey

Brilliant!

Creating a new stream from the byte array worked, any idea why that would solve it? I am a curious dev and also like to learn lessons so i don't hit the same gotcha more than once.

Thanks again.

Chris

Just set the position of the first stream to zero, used that to create the attachment and that works too. Can't believe i didn't think of it myself!

Might have to blog/post on Code Project so others can find the solution.

Thanks

Thanks to both of you for pointing me in the right direction and also explaining the reasoning behind this with the stream positions :)

Great product I will be purchasing for our business!