PDF Creator
  • Introduction
    • 👋Welcome
    • Quickstart
    • Key use cases
    • Key features
  • Getting Started
    • Installing the plugin
    • Enabling ID attributes
  • Implementing Key Features
    • Generating PDFs of a single element
    • Generating a PDF of multiple elements
    • Downloading PDFs
    • Saving PDFs to your Bubble database
    • Adding footers
      • Page counters
      • Logos
    • Adding headers
    • Customising your PDF
    • Sending PDFs via email
  • Making PDF files private
  • Tips
    • How the plugin scales elements to the PDF page
    • Adding a loading screen
    • Generating PDFs of repeating groups that span multiple pages
  • Troubeshooting
    • 'Can't find element' message when using square brackets
    • Unwanted white spaces when using nested repeating groups
    • Unwanted gap at bottom of table elements
    • Traditional Chinese characters formatting
    • White space at the top of pages
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Quickstart

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Last updated 1 year ago

To get started with the PDF Creator plugin:

  2. Drop the PDF Creator element onto the page where your users will be generating PDFs

  3. If you want users to be able to save files to your database, set the the 'File uploads enabled' to 'yes'. If not, set it to 'no'

  4. in your settings

  5. Add an ID attribute to your chosen element(s)

  6. Add the 'Generate a PDF Creator' action to a button (or some other trigger)

  7. Add the ID attribute from step 4 and select a 'scale' value (you can also customise other aspects of the PDF if you wish)

You can now generate a PDF of your chosen element!

Install the plugin
Enable ID attributes