Save Email as PDF File

Hi,

Recently I was rerunning the same project using this package once again.

But am seeing that all the pdfs generated from the emails are containing only the From, To, CC, BCC, Sent On, Received, Subject, and the content section is completely blank.

The emails are containing tabular data which needs to be saved in PDF format.

The issue is happening in my machine, while working as expected in another colleagues machine.

Please assist if there is anything that can be done to fix this.

Regards,

Arkaprava

@Arkaprava Basak - the current activity does not allow to change the layout, it will only extract the content in landscape mode.

We will take your suggestion into consideration for the next version of the activity.

Thank you!

Hello,

I am trying to use this package for an assignment, and the email that I want to convert to PDF contains a table with atleast 11 to 12 columns.

The activity is wonderful in terms of accuracy of the email content being saved.

I have a question though:

This activity saves the PDF in Portrait mode which causes a lot of text to get wrapped.

Is it possible to save the PDF in landscape mode? or better in a single PDF page, and maybe without having Page breaks?

Kindly advise.

Regards,

Arkaprava

Hello,

I am trying to use this package for an assignment, and the email that I want to convert to PDF contains a table with atleast 11 to 12 columns.

The activity is wonderful in terms of accuracy of the email content being saved.

I have a question though:

This activity saves the PDF in Portrait mode which causes a lot of text to get wrapped.

Is it possible to save the PDF in landscape mode? or better in a single PDF page, and maybe without having Page breaks?

Kindly advise.

Regards,

Arkaprava

@Rajneesh Kumar - you should place only the folder name in EmailFilePath, and the file name (without the folder) in the EmailFileName and PdfFilePath

please make sure you do have the folder available and the permissions are ok.

Ex:

EmailFileName - "ProcessCompletionDispatcher.eml"

EmailFilePath - "D:\MyFolder"

PdfFilePath - "ProcessCompletionDispatcher.eml"

Hi Catelin,

when I run this activity, it throws error -

"Read saved email to PDF: Directory name incorrect (Parameter 'D:\ProcessCompletionDispatcher.eml')"

When I pass the data in the fields -

EmailFileName - "ProcessCompletionDispatcher"

EmailFilePath - "D:\ProcessCompletionDispatcher.eml"

PdfFilePath - "D:\ProcessCompletionDispatcher.eml"

Hi Catelin,

Every time I run this activity, it throws following error.

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Read saved email to PDF: File name incorrect

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Is this known bug?

I tried different file name with string type however the issue still persists.

it would be appreciated if you could share any sugestion.

How do i use this? After Installing this package -  I do not find any activities to be used after installation ?

Hi,

Im getting the following error when using this activity to convert an .eml file to PDF:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)). at UiPathTeam.MailActivities.ReadSavedEmailToPDF.SaveAsPDF(String iniFilePath, String pdfFilePath) at UiPathTeam.MailActivities.ReadSavedEmailToPDF.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.ActivityInstance.Execute(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)

Im running an unattended robot on Windows Server 2019 with Office 365 (Outlook and MS Word avaiable)

I have ensured the correct permissions have been set after following multiple articles about this error.

e.g. http://woshub.com/dcom-event-10016-fix-app-specific-permission/

Doesnt seem to have made any difference.

Thank you for this activity!  It's very useful!   It looks like the Received on is being parsed incorrectly on the PDF.  All of my PDF files that the activity creates show "Received: 1899/12/30 00:00:00".  Can the parsing be updated?

the content of the field "from:" ist missing. also date/time would be essential. could you please consider this in a future version.

Hello Catalin

Unfortunately I have problems with German umlauts (öäü...) which are not always converted cleanly. Especially then the rest of the text is cut off (ausfüllen -> ausfC).

Could it be that the PDF converter has problems with utf-8, especially with formatted text (e.g. italic)?

Thanks Beni