Fillable PDFs

Generating PDFs

Changing API Server Region

As of version 5.0 of Fillable PDFs, you can now select between multiple regions to control where your PDFs are being generated. As you may know, Fillable PDFs is powered by a remote API server we control where the PDF generation takes place. Prior to 5.0, all document generation ran through where the server was…
Setting Up PDF Generation

How to generate a PDF on form submission
Mapping to Checkbox Fields

Prepare your Gravity Forms field to map to your PDF Checkbox field
Mapping to Radio Buttons

Prepare your Gravity Forms field to map to your PDF Radio Button field
Mapping to a Drop Down

Prepare your Gravity Forms field to map to your PDF Drop Down field
Inserting Multiple Form Fields Into a PDF Field

Use the Custom Value option to insert merge tags into a PDF field
Embedding an Image

Display an image or signature in a PDF field
Uploading PDFs to Dropbox

How to upload generated PDFs to Dropbox
Uploading PDFs to Google Drive

How to upload generated PDFs to Google Drive
Delay PDF Generation Until Payment is Captured

Delay PDF generation until payment is captured when using payment add-ons that collect payment after submission
Duplicate Field Names

How to make sure your fillable template’s fields all have unique names
Mapping to Image Choices

How to map fields utilizing JetSloth’s Image Choice Add-On
Mapping to Nested Forms

Fill repeatable data collected via Gravity Wiz’s Nested Forms Perk into your PDFs
Using the Gravity Flow Step

Make use of the Fillable PDFs step for Gravity Flow to control where in your flow PDF generation occurs
Embedding a Chart

Display a GFChart chart inside your PDF field

Templates

Preparing Your PDF File

Learn how to take an existing standard PDF file or your Word document and make it fillable.
Adding a Template

Upload your template to generate PDFs from
Editing a Template

Change the name of your template or replace it with an updated version
Importing a PDF

Importing an editable PDF as a new Gravity Forms form

After Generation

Attaching a PDF to a Notification

Add your generated PDFs to existing form notifications
Displaying PDF in Confirmation Message

Insert a link to your generated PDF into your form’s confirmation message
Merge Tags

Include a link to the generated PDF in your form confirmations, notifications
Protecting Your PDFs

Information on how we protect generated PDFs by default
Send PDF URL(s) to Zapier

Send generated PDFs to outside services using the Zapier Add-On
Displaying PDFs on a Page

Display PDFs generated by the logged in user on a post or page
Displaying PDFs with GravityView

Add links to your generated PDFs in a View

Extending Fillable PDFs

fg_fillablepdfs_pdf_args

Modify the details of the PDF before it is generated
fg_fillablepdfs_after_generate

Run an action after the PDF has been generated
fg_fillablepdfs_base_path

Modify the base folder where generated PDFs are stored
fg_fillablepdfs_form_path

Modify the folder where generated PDFs are stored for a specific form
fg_fillablepdfs_logged_out_timeout

Modify how long a guest user can download the generated PDF
fg_fillablepdfs_view_pdf_capabilities

Modify the user capabilities required to view all PDFs
fg_fillablepdfs_access_denied_message

Description This filter allows you to modify the access denied message used when a user cannot access a requested PDF. Usage Parameters Examples This example will change the default access denied message Since This filter was added in Fillable PDFs 3.1.3
fg_fillablepdfs_display_all_templates

Description This filter allows you to only show templates created on the current site in the Templates list and in the Select Template drop down in the feed settings. Usage Parameters Examples Only Show Templates Created On Current Site This example will hide any templates associated with the current license that were not created on…
fg_fillablepdfs_metabox_generated_pdfs

Description This filter allows you to filter the generated PDFs to be displayed in the “Generated PDFs” metabox within the entry detail before the metabox is rendered. Usage Parameters Since This filter was added in Fillable PDFs 3.3.
fg_fillablepdfs_use_image_binary_pre_generate

Description By default, Fillable PDFs sends a URL to our API when an image file is to be embedded into a PDF. Our API then attempts to download the image from that URL. This filter allows you to instead enable the sending of a Base64 encoded image binary to the Fillable PDFs API. This is…