Description

Gravity PDF is the ultimate self-hosted solution for dynamically creating digital PDF documents using Gravity Forms and WordPress.

Highly Customisable PDFs

Out of the box you receive four highly-customisable PDF designs. Within minutes, you can personalise the look and feel by adding your company logo, header, footer, paper size / orientation, font, color and size. If these designs don’t suit, select a new one from the Template Shop, go Bespoke, or build your own using HTML/CSS/PHP.

Send as Email Attachment

Gravity PDF can automatically email the PDF to both the admin and the user as soon as the form is completed. Try combining this feature with one of Gravity Forms payment add-ons (like Stripe, Square, or PayPal) to delay the email until the payment is complete.

Privacy, Security, and GDPR

Gravity PDF generates PDFs on your web server, so no third-party service receives your data. Robust security protects your documents, and the plugin is GDPR-compliant for our European friends.

Digital document management with WordPress and Gravity Forms just became simple with Gravity PDF!

Free Feature

Unlimited Use, No Restrictions – There are zero hard limits to the number of PDFs you can configure across all your forms or generate on your entries. Gravity PDF does NOT stamp documents with our logo, limit the number of PDFs you can create per month, or purposefully restrict essential functionality to force you to upgrade to a paid plan.
Privacy and Security – your form data is never sent to a third party to generate the PDFs and the documents are generated directly on your web server. Strong access control policies are put in place to prevent unauthenticated access to your PDFs.
Multilingual – a multitude of languages from across the globe can be displayed in PDFs, include complex scripts like Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.
Additional Fonts – match your branding and enhance the overall look and feel of PDFs by install your own fonts.
Columns – use Drag and Drop columns in Gravity Forms and PDFs will automatically mimic that layout.
Shortcode and Merge Tags – You can generate a link or URL to PDFs using both shortcodes and merge tags so your users can download the PDF right after form submission.
Export Entries – include the direct link to any PDF(s) when exporting your form entries
Webhooks Add-on – send the direct PDF link with Webhook requests when using Gravity Forms Webhooks add-on.
Gravity Flow – create complex workflows using Gravity Flow and automatically email Gravity PDF-generated documents at any step in the workflow.
GravityView – add links to PDFs when building a members area using GravityView + Advanced Filtering add-on.
Background Processing – generating PDFs on form submission can be time consuming. Offload it to a background process will ensure form submissions are processed faster.
Design PDFs – developers can build their own PDF templates using HTML, CSS, and PHP with the help of our developer documentation.
Documentation and Support – there is extensive documentation covering every feature of Gravity PDF that you can comb through, plus we provide free general support to all users.

Unlock More Functionality

Pay for additional PDF designs and functionality from our online store.

New Designs – get access to 9 additional universal designs, 6 certificates, 4 invoices, and 3 letter styles
Additional customizations – watermark PDFs with your own logo or text, control fields that should be displayed per PDF, add field descriptions, display all checkbox or radio field options, add notes, show field values instead of labels, and hide the product table
On-screen Preview – allow users to preview the PDF before form submission (and optionally payment) so they can see what the end result will be. This is a great feature for capturing e-signatures, selling PDF reports / certificates / gift cards, or providing an on-screen proof before the PDF is sent to the printers (perfect for business cards).
Bulk Download – search, filter, and select entries and then zip up all your PDFs and download all together in a convenient zip file
GFChart – create PDF reports that display pie, bar, or column charts with aggregate Gravity Forms data using GFChart.
30-Day Refund Guarantee – Purchase with confidence knowing when you buy a product from our store that you can get a refund within 30 days, for any reason.

Hire the Experts

Need a tailor-made solution for Gravity PDF that solves complex business problems? Our team of experienced developers have helped thousands of businesses like yours to accomplish these goals. We can even automatically fill out existing PDFs like government forms! Find out more.

Documentation & Support

We have extensive documentation on using Gravity PDF, and our friendly support team provides FREE basic support via GravityPDF.com (we do respond to questions in forums, but give priority to our support portal).

Contribute

All development for Gravity PDF is handled via GitHub. Opening new issues or submitting a pull request is welcome.

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If you enjoy using the software we’d love it if you could give us a review!

Screenshots

Select various PDF templates (designs), attach to Notification emails, give a unique filename using merge tags, and apply conditional logic to the PDF
Control the paper size, orientation, font, size, and color, and whether to layout the document in RTL mode
Each template (design) has unique settings that allow you to change the appearance. Common settings include: Header, Footer, Background Color and Image, display HTML Fields, the Form Title, and enable Conditional Logic for the fields.
Password protect PDFs, format the PDF for long-term archiving (PDF/A-1b) or printing (PDFX-1a), and adjust the access control policies.
Zadani is a minimalist business-style PDF design that will generate a well-spaced document great for printing.
Rubix uses stylish containers to create an aesthetically pleasing PDF design.
Focus Gravity providing a classic layout which epitomises Gravity Forms Print Preview. It’s the familiar layout you’ve come to love in PDF format.
Blank Slate provides a print-friendly PDF design focused solely on the user-submitted data.
View individual PDFs on Gravity Forms Entry List page.
A flyout menu is shown when multiple PDFs are configured on a form when viewing on the Entry List page.
View or Download PDFs on the Gravity Forms Entry Details page from the PDFs metabox.
The Font Manager allows you to add, update, search, select, and delete custom fonts for use with Gravity PDF.
Design your own PDF templates and install via the PDF Template Manager. Or purchase a design from our online store.
Get detailed info about the state of Gravity PDF on your site from Gravity Forms System Status page
Easily uninstall and delete all Gravity PDF data from your website
A bunch of paid PDF designs are available, as well as additional functionality.

Installation

Gravity PDF can be run on most modern shared web hosting without any issues. It requires PHP 7.3+ and at least 128MB of WP Memory. You’ll also need to be running WordPress 5.3+ and have Gravity Forms 2.5+ (affiliate link).

You’ll find detailed installation instructions at docs.gravitypdf.com.

If you aren’t able to meet the v6 minimum requirements you can download v5 which we still provide support for.

Disclaimers

When you activate Gravity PDF on your website and Gravity Forms isn’t installed a notice will be displayed in the admin area that includes an affiliate link to the Gravity Forms website.
After activating the plugin you will be prompted to run the Core Font Installation tool so Gravity PDF can function correctly. This tool will download the fonts from a public GitHub repository (maintained by Gravity PDF). For further information about GitHub you can refer to their Terms of Service and/or Privacy Statement.
A Help page is provided in the plugin’s settings with an instant search feature of the Gravity PDF documentation, and the search is powered by Algolia. For further information about Algolia you can refer to their Terms of Service and/or Privacy Statement.

Reviews

imaginarytrout September 23, 2022

Was up and running on a small task to convert a Gravity Form into a letter of support for an Arizona non-profit in a matter of minutes. The Gravity PDF plugin was easy to setup and configure. Gravity PDF support was able to assist with hiding the signature URL printed on the PDF in less than 24 hours. The solution for those scratching their heads on how to hide the Gravity Form signature add-on URL was to exclude the default signature field from the PDF so the label wasn't displayed using the CSS class "exclude" (along with all the other fields), move the letter content from the PDF Header setting to an HTML field in the form, and finally wrapping the GF Signature merge tag in an IMG tag. Which looks something like this: Sincerely, <img src="{Signed:10}&t=1" height="10mm" /> {Name (First):1.3} {Name (Last):1.6} {Title:12}

handsup August 26, 2022

The GravityPDF team built a customised solution for us that worked perfectly and were very responsive to subsequent questions

ekualia June 27, 2022

100% recommended

vitaljik June 17, 2022

Great plugin for creating PDF from forms. Only disadvantages that you have to know php to create decent pdf templates and that it does not integrate with Gravity Dropbox Add-on.

joshuabl June 16, 2022

I implemented a custom pdf template but then ran into some permission issues that prevented some users from seeing their pdf. Contacted support and they were extremely helpful (just turned out I had to exclude the pdfs from my website cache and varnish cache). Always nice when a plugin support team provides you with real help and not just copy & pasted answers from their documentation. Thanks for the help Jake!

brokers88 June 3, 2022

Great product and customer service. Highly recommended.

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Contributors & Developers

“Gravity PDF” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Jake Jackson

“Gravity PDF” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Gravity PDF” into your language.

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Changelog

6.4.7

Bug: Resolve blank PDF problem when a large HTML block is processed by mPDF
Bug: Resolve QueryPath deprecation notice about passing null to trim()
Housekeeping: Update mPDF and URL Signer library to latest version

6.4.6

Bug: Adjust Nested Forms and Repeater field PDF markup to ensure a unique ID attribute for any HTML tags
Bug: Prevent duplicate grid css classes being added to Nested Forms HTML tags
Bug: Process merge tags in Background Image PDF setting before late escaping in the PDF HTML markup
Housekeeping: Remove initialized message from Gravity PDF logs

6.4.5

Bug: Fix image display problem if filename had a space in it
Bug: Fix Background Image display problem on Windows OS
Developer: Added HTML field content to Repeater Field $form_data array

6.4.4

Bug: Resolve HTML encoding issue in PDF when displaying Coupon field in Gravity Wiz eCommerce Perk’s Product Table
Bug: Remove coupon line item in PDF when Gravity Wiz eCommerce Perk’s Product Table in use
Bug: Resolve duplicate product table displayed in a legacy v3 template
Bug: Resolve PHP notice when displaying product table in legacy v3 template
Bug: Resolve PHP notice when displaying Section Break field in legacy v3 template

6.4.3

Bug: Open PDF “view” link in a new browser tab on Entry List page
Bug: Only hide Select field in Core/Universal templates if the saved value is an empty string, not a falsey value
Bug: Prevent PHP notice when displaying Repeater field in PDFs with a Number sub-field
Bug: Prevent HTML attribute content from having their entities decoded if they were previously encoded
Bug: Fix Core/Universal template image display issues on servers running Windows

6.4.2

Bug: Allow data protocol so Base 64-encoded images can be correctly displayed in Core/Universal templates
Bug: Fix Core Font Installer problem when running older versions of WordPress (5.3 to 5.8)
Bug: Fix fatal return type mismatch error if safe_style_css filter has been implemented incorrectly

6.4.1

Bug: Fix PDF display issues with the Survey, Poll, Post Category, and Post Custom Fields

6.4.0

Security (Hardening): Move from early escaping to late escaping variables on output
Security (Hardening): Add additional validation checks to the Core Font installer
Security (Hardening): Escape text returned from WordPress l10n functions
Security (Hardening): Escape any and all strings from the Gravity Forms form object, in any context (including PDFs)
Security (Hardening): Move to earlier sanitizing of user input
Security (Hardening): Custom PDF template filenames are now limited to the following characters: A-Za-z0-9_-
Security (Hardening): The ?html=1 and ?data=1 developer helper parameters now only work in non-production environments (WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE !== 'production'), or when Gravity PDF Debug Mode is explicitly enabled
Security (Hardening): Prevent directory traversal when loading the various Gravity PDF UI components
Security (Hardening): Change PDF Form Settings capability check from gravityforms_edit_settings to gravityforms_edit_forms
Security (Hardening): Change Font Manager CRUD capability check from gravityforms_view_entries to gravityforms_edit_forms
Security (Hardening): Switch to sodium_crypto_secretbox_keygen() function with modified fallback to wp_generate_password() when generating new PDF URL signing secret key
Security (Hardening): Switch from a Text to Password field for the Gravity PDF License Keys
Security (Hardening): Update PHP and JavaScript dependencies
Developer: Added \GFPDF\Statics\Kses::output($html) and \GFPDF\Statics\Kses::parse($html) methods for use with escaping/sanitizing HTML in PDFs (as an alternative to wp_kses_post()).
Performance: Register JavaScript in the footer on Gravity PDF admin pages
Privacy: Added “Get more info” link in the Core Font Installer instructions, and disclaimer to plugin’s README.txt installation section
Bug: Fix issue passing PDF URL to Gravity Forms Mailchimp add-on
Bug: Allow hyphen in custom font key when updating or deleting to remain backwards compatible
Bug: Fix PHP8.1 type conversion warning in the template cache when transient’s are flushed
Bug: Remove empty repeater sections from Core PDFs when not filled in by the user

6.3.1

Security: Prevent potential XSS attack by escaping URL returned from add_query_args() on the PDF List or PDF Form Settings pages
Developer: Apply gfpdf_current_form_object filter added in 6.3.0 to the form object in Helper_Abstract_Fields.php using the $type helper_abstract_fields.
Bug: Correctly display the file path in the logs when cleaning up PDFs from disk or flushing the mPDF cache
Performance: reduce I/O operations when flushing the mPDF cache by excluding the top-level directory

6.3.0

Feature: Support for mapping PDF URLs to your favorite services using Gravity Forms feeds. This includes (but is not limited to): PayPal, MailChimp, HubSpot, Stripe, Square, ActiveCampaign, Agile CRM, Capsule, CleverReach, Constant Contact, EmailOctopus, Zoho CRM
Feature: Support for the Zapier add-on: PDF URLs can now be passed to your zaps
Feature: Add [gravitypdf] shortcode rendering support to Gravity Wiz’s Entry Block perk
Housekeeping: Change “document” icon used for settings menus to the “Gravity PDF” icon
Housekeeping: duplicating PDFs on a form will now have the correct alternating background color in the table
Housekeeping: Process the [gravitypdf] shortcode when merge tags get processed so that it can be used where ever merge tags are supported
Developer: Add new gfpdf_current_form_object filter to manipulate the $form array when processing PDFs
Bug: Fix a race condition when using Background Processing that could see the PDF deleted before being attached to notifications
Bug: Do not strip the backslash character when used in PDF settings

6.2.1

Bug: Always generate a new PDF when using the GPDFAPI::create_pdf() method
Bug: Fix fatal error during PDF generation when using the gform_address_display_format filter

6.2.0

Feature: Add support for Gravity Forms 2.6 (see Housekeeping below)
Housekeeping: Add alternate background color on PDF List page
Housekeeping: Add styles/support for new merge tag selector
Housekeeping: Add styles for Copy to Clipboard shortcode button on PDF List page
Housekeeping: Update help search API to query v6 documentation
Bug: Fix error message display issue on Form PDF add/edit page
Bug: Fix missing styles on multi-PDF view/download menu on Entry List page

6.1.1

Bug: Allow number field to show a thousand separator by using the ‘gform_include_thousands_sep_pre_format_number’ filter.
Bug: Fix PHP Notice when displaying Repeater field caused by processing field’s not present in $form_data['field'] array key
Housekeeping: Add logging to file/directory cleanup method
Housekeeping: Add additional checks and logging when processing background tasks

6.1.0

Feature: Add Copy to Clipboard feature for PDF Shortcode on the PDF List page
Bug: Fix empty check on the Radio field so a zero (0) value is not considered empty

6.0.3

Bug: Reduce the Focus Gravity template column widths by a fraction to prevent edge-case display issues (props Hiwire Creative)
Bug: Fix Help page results text encoding problems
Bug: Prevent multiple font files being uploaded to a single dropzone
Bug: When checking if a Radio/Select field is empty in the PDF context, only look at the value property.

6.0.2

Bug: Fix up 404 link for Outdated Templates in System Status
Bug: Revert vendor aliasing for mPDF and querypath (back to the original namespace) as it caused more problems than is solved. Developers: see https://docs.gravitypdf.com/v6/users/v5-to-v6-migration#changed-namespace-for-composer-packages

6.0.1

Bug: When displaying the minimum Gravity Forms version not met error, remove beta-1 as the minimum to prevent confusion.

6.0.0

This major release is designed specifically for Gravity Forms 2.5+ and includes breaking pages that may affect you. You are strongly encouraged to review the upgrade guide before attempting to update to v6.

BREAKING CHANGES

New minimum requirements PHP7.3+, WordPress 5.3+, Gravity Forms 2.5+
Removed Gravity PDF v3 template stylesheet (swap legacy PDF template to Focus Gravity template)
Removed Gravity PDF v3 to v4 migration code (upgrade to v4/v5 before attempting v6 upgrade)
(Dev) Moved all vendor (Packagist) packages to new GFPDF_Vendor/ namespace (BC aliasing for common classes included). Prevents all vendor conflicts with other plugins.
(Dev) Removed “Setup Custom Templates” tool (manually copy over template files to PDF Working Directory)
(Dev) Removed shortname property from custom_fonts global PDF options, and removed the requirement for the font_name to be unique (use id instead of shortname).
(Dev) Changed the first parameter $font_name in GPDFAPI::delete_pdf_font() to $font_id instead. You can no longer delete the font by
its name, as it is no longer a unique identifier.
(Dev) Majority of admin user interface markup (UI) changed to suit new GF2.5 UI ()
(Dev) Renamed \GFPDF\Helper\Fields\Field_CreditCard class to Field_Creditcard
(Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_Install __construct signature by removing Helper_Abstract_Forms dependancy from the start and adding Model_Uninstall at the end
(Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_System_Report __construct signature by adding new Helper_Templates dependancy at the end
(Dev) Removed \GFPDF\View\View_Settings::system_status method. Replaced by Controller_|Model_|View_System_Report classes for direct integration with Gravity Forms System Status page
(Dev) Removed undocumented gfpdf_entry_detail_pre_container_markup and gfpdf_entry_detail_post_container_markup actions
(Dev) Adjusted ID from #tab_pdf to #tab_PDF for container on Global PDF settings page. This ensures both the Global and Form PDF settings use a consistent ID.
(Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_Install __construct signature by removing Helper_Abstract_Forms dependancy from the start and adding Model_Uninstall at the end
(Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_System_Report __construct signature by adding new Helper_Templates dependancy at the end
(Dev) Removed \GFPDF\View\View_Settings::system_status method. Replaced by Controller_|Model_|View_System_Report classes for direct integration with Gravity Forms System Status page
(Dev) Removed undocumented gfpdf_entry_detail_pre_container_markup and gfpdf_entry_detail_post_container_markup actions
(Dev) Adjusted ID from #tab_pdf to #tab_PDF for container on Global PDF settings page. This ensures both the Global and Form PDF settings use a consistent ID.
(Dev) Deprecate Helper_Abstract_Options::get_font_short_name(). No direct replacement as the font ‘shortname’ has been phased out (using unique ID now).
(Dev) Updated field description markup to use DIVs instead of SPANs. Matches Gravity Forms RC1
(Dev) Deprecate these methods from \GFPDF\Model\Model_Install: uninstall_plugin, remove_plugin_options, remove_plugin_form_settings, remove_folder_structure, deactivate_plugin. All moved to Model_Uninstall.

NEW FEATURES

Brand new admin user interface (UI) to seamlessly match the Gravity Forms (GF) 2.5 UI.
Added support for new GF columns feature in Core PDFs
Add PDF column support for Gravity Perks Nested Forms
Added RTL support for new GF columns feature in Core PDFs
Refreshed Font Manager with better validation, error handling, and automatic support for fonts that include Open Type Layout features.
Added new PDF metabox on Entry Details page. Includes a better user experience for forms with a lot of PDFs configured.
Added new merge tag modifiers :download, :print, :signed, :signed:expiry to enhance existing PDF mergetag (modifiers can all be used in conjunction)
Add PDF URL to Webhook add-on “All Fields” request body
Add ability to include PDF URLs in Entry exports
Add Gravity PDF info to Gravity Forms System Status page
Show plugin downgrade prompt when minimum WordPress, Gravity Forms, or PHP requirements aren’t met so users can easily roll back to the latest supported v5.x version.
Add support for WordPress’ native Background Updates
Add accessibility improvements for keyboard users and screen readers on all Gravity PDF UIs
Display warning on System Status page when Core template overrides are out of date
Include Add/Update PDF button below each section on PDF creation page to make it easy to save
Improve RTL support on admin pages

UX IMPROVEMENTS

Remove the Always Save PDF setting from the UI.
Switch all Radio PDF settings to new Toggle setting
Switch all Multiselect PDF settings to Checkbox field (better accessibility)
Rename PDF setting “Name” to “Label”
Replace asterisk * to text (required) to signify required fields (better accessibility)
Rename PDF setting “Orientation” to “Paper Orientation”
Refine PDF settings descriptions.
Removed Welcome Page
Move Paper Size global settings below the Template / Font settings
Removed rich Select functionality (using Chosen) in UI for greater accessibility
Remove WP Dialog prompts in UI for greater accessibility
Move Gravity PDF uninstaller from Tools tab to Gravity Forms Uninstall settings page

BUG FIXES

Ignore content-type header API response when running the Core Font installer
Make all GFPDFAPI API class error responses translatable
Fix PHP8 notice
Prevent background queue from continuing if retry limit reached on unrecoverable task (like generating the PDF)
Adjust custom paper size sanitize logic to fix PHP error
Check for invalid relative date when using Signed PDF URLs and fallback to default timeout
Fix border display issue in Core Product table
Show error message in Template Manager when maximum file size limit is reached

DEVELOPER IMPROVEMENTS

Rewritten all CSS in SASS
Add GPDFAPI::get_entry_pdfs( $entry_id ) method to API. Acts like GPDFAPI::get_form_pdfs( $form_id ) but filters out any PDFs that don’t pass conditional logic checks for the current entry.
Added Helper_Abstract_Config_Settings class which template config files can extend to automatically have the current PDF settings injected into the class.
Adjusted some logged items to use less severe alerts (when template config file doesn’t exist, and when native PDF support for a field doesn’t exist)
Upgrade vendor packages to latest versions
Remove all backbone.js and underscore.js Font Manager code from Gravity PDF admin pages
Remove gulp as dependency (build is done using only webpack now)
Add better error log messages for PDF Merge tag processing
Pass additional information to the gfpdf_field_container_class filter

See CHANGELOG.txt for version 5/4/3 changelog history.