Creating custom PDF designs

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PDF designs let you control how the PDF documents generated from your forms look. With a design, you can customize the header with your logo, apply colors that match your corporate identity, and set layout options such as the number of columns and font size.

You make all your customizations to a pre-built design template in the Admin centre. Once you activate a design, it becomes available for selection in your forms.

Creating a PDF design

To create a new PDF design:

  1. Click your profile icon in the top right corner.
  2. Select Admin centre
  3. In the left sidebar, go to Emails and PDFs.
  4. Scroll down to the PDF Designs section.
  5. Click New PDF Design.

The design now opens automatically in the design editor.

Editing and activating a PDF design

When you create a new PDF design, it opens automatically in the design editor. To edit an existing PDF design, click the pencil icon next to it in the PDF Designs section.

  1. Open the design you want to customize.
  2. Give the design a descriptive name.
  3. Make the customizations you want (see Customization options below).
  4. Click Activate in the top right corner to save the design and start using it immediately.

Customisation options

You have several options for customising the layout of your PDF documents.


Property Description
Select image Add an image (e.g., your logo) to display in the header of the PDF document.
Name Give the PDF design a name, which is shown in the Admin Center and when selecting it in a form.
Design template Choose from several pre-built design templates.
Columns Set whether the PDF document is displayed in one or two columns.
Font size Set the font size for the PDF document.
Colours Choose two accent colours. Which areas of the PDF document they're applied to depends on the design template you've selected.
Timestamp Choose whether to display a timestamp on the PDF document.
Page numbers Choose whether to display page numbers on the PDF document.

To learn how to select your activated PDF design in a form, choose which content and form elements to display, and make the finished PDF document available to your users, see the Providing form submissions as PDF section.

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