C++ API to Export EMAIL to PDF
Transform EMAIL to PDF within C++ application without requiring Microsoft Word or Outlook
Why to Convert
As a C++ developer, you may need to add email conversion features inside your applications. Email conversion is a process of transforming an email file format into another format. This process is useful for archiving emails, creating backups, or for other purposes.
How Aspose.Total Helps for Email to PDF Conversion
Aspose.Total for C++ is a comprehensive suite of APIs that provides developers with the ability to create, manipulate, and convert various file formats. It includes two APIs, Aspose.Email for C++ and Aspose.Words for C++, which can be used to convert an EMAIL file format to HTML and then export HTML to PDF.
Aspose.Email for C++ is a powerful API that enables developers to read, write, and convert email file formats such as MSG, EML, EMLX, MHTML, and MBOX. It also provides features to manipulate email messages, such as adding attachments, setting headers, and adding recipients.
Aspose.Words for C++ is a powerful API that enables developers to create, manipulate, and convert various document formats such as DOC, DOCX, ODT, HTML, and PDF. It also provides features to manipulate documents, such as adding images, text, and tables.
Using Aspose.Total for C++, developers can easily convert an EMAIL file format to HTML and then export HTML to PDF. This makes it easy to add email conversion features to C++ applications.
C++ API to Convert EMAIL to PDF
- Open EMAIL file using MailMessage class reference
- Convert EMAIL to HTML by using Save member function
- Load HTML by using Document class
- Save the document to PDF format using Save method and set Pdf as SaveFormat
Get Started with C++ File Format APIs
Install from command line as nuget install Aspose.Total.Cpp or via Package Manager Console of Visual Studio with Install-Package Aspose.Total.Cpp.
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// load the EMAIL file to be converted
System::SharedPtr<MailMessage> msg = MailMessage::Load(u"sourceFile.msg");
// save EMAIL as a HTML
msg->Save(u"HtmlOutput.html", SaveOptions::get_DefaultHtml());
// load HTML with an instance of Document
System::SharedPtr<Document> doc = System::MakeObject<Document>(u"HtmlOutput.html");
// call save method while passing Pdf as save format
doc->Save(u"convertedFile.Pdf");
Parse EMAIL File via C++
Not only you can convert your EMAIL to PDF, but you can read, manipulate, and parse EMAIL document. You can get subject, address, body, recipients information of the email by using MapiMessage class of Aspose.Email for C++ API. For example, you can check for a specific sender email for the conversion by using get_SenderEmailAddress() property.
// create an instance of MapiMessage from file
System::SharedPtr<MapiMessage> msg = MapiMessage::FromFile(dataDir + L"message.msg");
// get subject
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"Subject:") + msg->get_Subject());
// get from address
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"From:") + msg->get_SenderEmailAddress());
// get body
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"Body") + msg->get_Body());
// get recipients information
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"Recipient: ") + msg->get_Recipients());
C++ API to Restrict PDF File Format Editing
You can also add document protection features in your app while exporting the document from EMAIL to PDF. Adding protection to your document is a simple process, as all you need to do is apply the protection method to your document. You can set protection type to ReadOnly to restrict the user to edit the document.
// create a new document and protect it with a password.
auto doc = System::MakeObject<Document>();
// apply Document Protection.
doc->Protect(ProtectionType::ReadOnly, u"password");
// save the document.
doc->Save(u"DocumentProtection.PasswordProtection.Pdf");