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To print your form, in edit or use mode, click on the form's  icon. A pdf of your form will be generated and downloaded (depending on browser settings). The name of the pdf file will be <form name>.pdf. This pdf file can then be printed. 

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A form's print view refers to the pdf (or other image types such as tiff, png..) generated when the form is submitted (ex: Pdf attached to an emailed submission). 

You can configure your forms to control which fields are visible in the printed view. This is done via the printable property set in the form designer. Printable is checked by default. If you un-check this property then the control will not appear in the printed view. This property can also be set dynamically via a business rule by setting <control>.printable = [true|false]. 

Background colors for controls, specified using color names, may not show in the pdf file generated for form printing. If this occurs, try the Hex Value for the color in the Background color field on the Style Properties tab. For example, a background color for a control, specified as pink, will not show up in the form pdf file. Changing the value to #f778a1 will allow it to display the color. Some other colors that may require the Hex value are: brown, cyan, violet, etc. Italics and bold styling of control labels may not show up correctly in the generated pdf.

 

Page Breaks

Page breaks can be added to the print view by adding the special f-page-break to any control's CSS Class property. Any control with f-page-break will start at the top of new page. In the example below, the Room Information tab prints on a new page.

Custom Print Styling

You can also style your form's print view via a custom theme. This enables you to have one look & feel in use mode and a different look & feel in print mode. See the themes chapter for details and examples.

In Live Form versions previous to V5, &format=pdf appended to the URL from clicking on the Print Icon will give you a PDF of the form instance. This can be done manually by first clicking the Print Icon which will open the HTML print view in your browser and then editing that URL by appending a &format=pdf and clicking the browser's go button again. Or you could add a clickable link into your form. To do this:

  • Add a message control to your form
  • Add the following HTML to your message control
  • Escape the '&' in the URL before the format=pdf with & followed by amp;
<center> 
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="window.open(document.location.toString().split('?')[0] + '? 
print=true&amp;format=pdf')">Print PDF</a> 
</center>

The same technique above can also be used for forms in workflows. In the case of a workflow the "Print PDF" will print the currently visible workflow step and not the combination of all the steps in the workflow.

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