Ready-made layouts
Document layout lists every question and answer in order. Form Layout prints your form as the respondent saw it, filled in. Nothing to design.
Default PDF type
Document layoutForm Layout
BusinessForm to PDF
Generate a PDF from every form submission
Form to PDF with no setup. Each response becomes a clean PDF you can download from Results, attach to emails, or send to Google Drive and your webhook. Need your own branded layout? Design it once in the PDF Editor.
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Two ways to start
Two ways to turn a form into a PDF
Use a ready-made layout today, or design your own PDF when the document needs your brand.
Your own branded PDF
Build a contract, invoice, or certificate with your logo and layout. Each submission fills it in and goes out through the same channels.
PDF Style
Connected PDF
How it works
How to convert a form to PDF
No template to build. Formester lays out each response for you, and you decide where the PDF goes.
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Collect responses
Publish your form, or send a test entry. Every submission lands in your form’s Results.
New response · Jordan Reyes
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Pick a PDF style
In form settings, set the default PDF type to Document layout or Form Layout. You can also change the style each time you download.
Default PDF type
Document layoutForm Layout
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Download one or many
In Results, choose Download as PDF from any submission’s menu. Or select several and choose Download PDFs. We email you a download link when they are ready.
PDFDownload PDFs48 selected
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Send it automatically
Attach the PDF to your notification email or the autoresponder, save it to Google Drive, or add a PDF link to your webhook.
Admin emailAutoresponderGoogle DriveWebhook
Delivery
Send every PDF where it needs to go
Pick a PDF style wherever Formester sends or stores a submission. The PDF is generated at that moment.
Attached to your notification
Turn on “Attach Form Submissions as PDF” and your team gets the PDF with every new response, named the way you set.
PDF Style
Document layout
A copy for the respondent
Attach the PDF to the autoresponder, so everyone who submits keeps a record of what they sent.
Autoresponder
Your submission is attached
Download right after submitting
Turn on “Let respondents download a PDF” to show a download button once the form is sent.
Thank-you page
Download PDF
Part of a bigger workflow
Attach the submission PDF in a Send email step, after an approval, a condition, or a delay.
Send email step
Attach submission PDF
Filed in Google Drive
Save each PDF to a Drive folder, with a subfolder per submission if you like. Past submissions can be uploaded too.
PDF filename
Intake - @Full name
A link for your own systems
Webhooks can include a link to the PDF, so your CRM or backend can fetch it. The link works for 7 days.
Payload
pdf_url included
PDF settings
Control what goes into the PDF
A few form settings decide what goes into each PDF and what the file is called.
Named from the answers
Use @ to build file names from the response, like “Invoice for @Name”, so every PDF is easy to find later.
PDF file name
Invoice for @Name
Only what matters
Fields hidden by your form logic stay out. Choose to show all options of a field, hide the form name, or hide variables like the quiz score.
Show all options in PDF
On
Digitally signed PDFs
Turn on “Sign PDF” to add a Formester digital certificate to exported PDFs, so recipients can see where the file came from.
Sign PDF
On
Your own design
Your own layout in the PDF Editor
When a plain record is not enough, build a branded template in the PDF Editor on the same form. Choose “Connected PDF” as the style, and every channel above sends your design instead.
Drag and drop a template
Add your logo, headings, and any form field, then style each one. Long answers and tables flow onto the next page.
See the PDF EditorUse your letterhead
Upload a PDF you already have as the base, then place answers and images where they belong.
Start from a ready-made one
Some form templates come with a branded PDF already connected, such as contracts, NDAs, and quotes.
Browse templates with a PDFUse cases
PDFs teams send every day
Anywhere a response needs to live as a document: filed, shared, or sent back to the person who filled it in.
Order confirmations
Every customer gets their order details as a PDF in the autoresponder, without anyone copying them out.
Applications and intake
Save a PDF of each application to Google Drive, one folder per applicant, ready for review.
Signed consent forms
A signature drawn on the form appears in the PDF, so each signed consent is a complete record.
Consent formsInspection reports
Checklist answers and uploaded photos come together in one PDF per visit.
Inspection form builderRegistrations
Keep a printable record of every attendee, or download all registrations as PDFs before the event.
Quizzes and assessments
The Document layout can include the quiz score, so each person’s result is on file.
Testimonials
What teams say on G2
"The submission results page is nicely laid out as a table of entries … PDF and emailing options are solid and easy to use."
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FAQ
Form to PDF questions
Find answers to common questions below, or reach out to our team for more help.
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Turn your next submission into a PDF
Publish a form, collect a response, and download it as a PDF or send it on automatically.