Print Silently Documents with RadRichTextEditor

Updated on Aug 27, 2026

Environment

Product Version	Product	Author
2021.1.223	RadRichTextEditor for WinForms	Desislava Yordanova

Description

This tutorial demonstrates how to print silently different document types, e.g. .docx, .html, etc.

The required Assembly References are:

• System.Windows.Forms (for Console applications)
• Telerik.WinControls
• Telerik.WinControls.RichTextEditor
• Telerik.WinControls.UI
• TelerikCommon

Solution

RadRichTextEditor supports importing the content of different document types like DOCX, XAML, HTML, RTF, Plain text. To import a document you have to use a specific class that implements the IDocumentFormatProvider. The supported document providers in RadRichTextEditor are listed here. Once a document is imported in RadRichTextEditor, you can use its printing functionality.

Silent Printing of Word and HTML documents

C#

namespace ConsoleApplicationSilentPrintRTE
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            PrintWordDocument(@"..\..\Sample.docx");
            PrintHtmlDocument(@"..\..\Sample.html");
        }

        private static void PrintHtmlDocument(string fileName)
        {
            Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadRichTextEditor radRichTextEditor1 = new RadRichTextEditor();
            Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.Html.HtmlFormatProvider provider = new HtmlFormatProvider();
            using (System.IO.FileStream inputStream = File.OpenRead(fileName))
            {
                radRichTextEditor1.Document = provider.Import(inputStream);
            }
            radRichTextEditor1.LoadElementTree();
            radRichTextEditor1.Print();
        }

        private static void PrintWordDocument(string fileName)
        {
            Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadRichTextEditor radRichTextEditor1 = new RadRichTextEditor();
            Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.OpenXml.Docx.DocxFormatProvider provider = new DocxFormatProvider();
            using (System.IO.FileStream inputStream = File.OpenRead(fileName))
            {
                radRichTextEditor1.Document = provider.Import(inputStream);
            }
            radRichTextEditor1.LoadElementTree();
            radRichTextEditor1.Print();
        }
    }
}

VB.NET

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        PrintWordDocument("..\..\Sample.docx")
        PrintHtmlDocument("..\..\Sample.html")
    End Sub
    Private Sub PrintHtmlDocument(ByVal fileName As String)
        Dim radRichTextEditor1 As Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadRichTextEditor = New RadRichTextEditor()
        Dim provider As Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.Html.HtmlFormatProvider = New HtmlFormatProvider()

        Using inputStream As System.IO.FileStream = File.OpenRead(fileName)
            radRichTextEditor1.Document = provider.Import(inputStream)
        End Using

        radRichTextEditor1.LoadElementTree()
        radRichTextEditor1.Print()
    End Sub

    Private Sub PrintWordDocument(ByVal fileName As String)
        Dim radRichTextEditor1 As Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadRichTextEditor = New RadRichTextEditor()
        Dim provider As Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.OpenXml.Docx.DocxFormatProvider = New DocxFormatProvider()

        Using inputStream As System.IO.FileStream = File.OpenRead(fileName)
            radRichTextEditor1.Document = provider.Import(inputStream)
        End Using

        radRichTextEditor1.LoadElementTree()
        radRichTextEditor1.Print()
    End Sub

End Module

The above approach can be followed with the rest of the document providers that RadRichTextEditor offers.

See Also

• Using DocxFormatProvider
• Using HtmlFormatProvider
• Using TxtFormatProvider
• Using RtfFormatProvider
• Using XamlFormatProvider