Formidable PRO2PDF

Description

Formidable Form add-on plugin to map Formidable Form fields to PDF form fields. Then – with one simple shortcode – display a download link or button on any post, page, form, or view to the filled-in PDF document on your web user’s PC or mobile device.

Features:

FREE VERSION

• Create Webform to PDF form Field Maps
• Shortcode to Fill and Download PDFs
• Import/Export Pre-Made Templates
• Includes Complete Working Demo
• Free Templates on Plugin Site
• Automatic Downloads
• Flatten PDF Form

CONTRIBUTE VERSION

• Email PDF as Attachment
• Map Two Datasets to One PDF
• Password Protect PDF File
• Format PDF Fields
• Export to .docx file
• Works with all Formidable Field Types
• Works with Formidable Signature Addon
• Works with Formidable Repeatable Sections
• Works with Formidable Embedded Forms
• Unlimited Forms/Sites Available

Visit the Formidable PRO2PDF website to compare versions, review documentation, and for support.

Screenshots

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins → Add New’
2. Search for ‘Formidable PRO2PDF’
3. Activate Formidable PRO2PDF from your Plugins page.

From www.remarpro.com

1. Download FormidablePRO2PDF.
2. Upload the ‘formidablepro-2-pdf’ directory to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
3. Activate Formidable PRO2PDF from your Plugins page.

Once Activated

1. Make sure that you have at least one Formidable form, and at least one form entry in the form you want to merge into a pdf.
2. Choose “New Field Map” in “Field Map to use”.
3. Click “Upload a PDF file” in “Field Map Designer” section.
4. Choose new layout in “Layout to use”.
5. Add field mappings to your PDF file in “Manage your custom layout here” section.
6. Copy/paste the shortcode or press “Export” button to download merged PDFs.

Demo Installation Video

NOTE: The plugin uses PDFTK to fill in PDF files. This means that your server has to have PHP shell commands enabled. If your server does not have pdftk installed, you can still use the plugin to generate 1 PDF file for 1 Formidable form.

If you purchase the plugin using our website, you do not need to install pdftk or to enable shell commands on your server. You’ll use our API according to the Terms of Service.

Enter the activation code on the plugin options page.

FAQ

What are the requirements?

Formidable Forms plugin, make sure that your server can execute shell commands, and that pdftk is installed on your server.

You’ll also need to have PHP MB or iconv extensions installed. They are usually installed on web servers.

If you purchase the plugin, no additional software installation is need.

PHP version should be at least 5.3.

Does the plugin create PDF files?

Not at this time. Currently the plugin populates pre-made PDF form fields with mapped data from Formidable Form and FormidablePro form fields.

Future plans include adding HTML to PDF capabilities.

Is support offered for the free version?

Yes – standard user support is available through the support forum or purchase a key code for premium level support.

Does the plugin work with multisite installations?

Yes, the plugin works with WordPress Multisite. Site limits still apply.

Reviews

Excellent Plugins – Support is FANTASTIC!!!

pureitgroup February 7, 2021

We started off using Formidable forms and bought PRO2PDF as a plugin for extra features. Worked like a charm and ran into a slight configuration problem. Email support with our challenge and requests and literally within one minute we not only received feedback but a support technician logged in. Fixed the issue, and assisted with the features configuration we requested. Registered on www.remarpro.com just to leave the review. Could not believe the support we just received. Buy and support this platform.

absolute worst

changinglivesfinancial April 23, 2018 2 replies

This is the worst plugin. I have watched the demo. I have created the pdf. Now all i have to get it to the website. It has been a complete nightmare It is very unclear where the support form. I have spent 3 days trying to get my contract and a signature in my webpage. I have paid for this service and feel entirely frustrated.

It’s a never ending circle

johnlanglois August 23, 2017

I don’t understand where all the 5 stars are coming from. This product is difficult to configure and use. I watched the demo videos, read the documentation for the PRO version, which we purchased. In trying to import the PDF file from Adobe acrobat DC, the import fails, but does not provide a specific reason for the failure. We tried even a form with only one field import with no success. The support website’s menus circle back on themselves with no detail on items being searched for. The product has potential because it works with Formidable Pro, which is an excellent product. I now have 5 hours invested in getting the first form to work and no success. I am revising my review because for $5.00 they fixed all the issues I was having with the product. I would have paid $50.00 for that level of service. Their website still needs some work or a “heads-up” notice that it’s much easier to pay to have the forms created for you.

No dataset to export

Upshift-86 March 9, 2017

Purchased the Pro version, spent a lot of time creating a form in wordpress using Formidable and a PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro, and there isn’t any dataset to export. Can’t match form data to pdf without data to export. Very disappointed with the poor documentation! Although the form and PDF are nearly identical there are some fields that do not match with uploaded pdf. I submitted an email for support.

This is a quality plugin with exceptional support

gulfwebdev February 21, 2017

We have been using this plugin for a couple of years now. We have had two issues in the time span and in both cases the support was exceptional. There is a fast response on the forums and the developer even gave us his Skype info so we could make immediate contact if necessary. You don’t see that very often. The plugin works well with even the most complicated of forms. I would highly recommend this solution.

Super Cool

ashf September 3, 2016

Make best form plugin Formidable even better! I can automate any document filling task!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.18

Layout load edit fix
Multiple mail attachments fix

3.17

Minor warnings fix

3.16

Timeout increase

3.15

2nd dataset fails to render in some cases

3.14

PDF source can’t be loaded error fix

3.13

Fatal error in some cases

3.12

Update process

3.11

Security update

3.09

Minor warnings and errors fix

3.08

Templates export fix

3.07

Custom TMP dir path support

3.06

PHP8 number format fix

3.05

PHP8 compatibility fix
Minor bug fixes and improvements

3.04

Some “Checkbox” not checked due incorrect encoding

3.03

Optimization

3.02

“Field format” not working in some cases

3.01

“Field preview” improvement

3.00

Minor bug fixes and improvements

2.99

“Address field” support for repeatable section
“Credit Card” field support for repeatable section

2.98

Additional formatting option for date DD/MM/YY
Additional formatting options for numbers 1000, 1000.00, Intval
“Lowercase” format option

2.97

Restrict remote requests on local PDFTK fail option

2.96

Checkbox “ampersand” value fails in some cases

2.95

Missed value if field connected to “Create Post” action

2.94

Signatures missed with “Do not store entries” option
Incorrect warnings in some cases

2.93

Duplicate Signatures in some cases

2.92

Create and Overwrite Web Form/PDF/Field Map option

2.91

Loopback request fix

2.90

Minor warning fixes

2.89

‘Rotation’ option for images

2.88

‘fpro2pdf_signature’ filter

2.87

Field key parameter for ‘fpro2pdf_sig_output_options’ filter

2.86

Repeatable ‘if’ conditions
‘fpro2pdf_sig_output_options’ filter

2.85

‘fpro2pdf-date’ shortcode

2.84

‘Attachment’ function compatibility fix

2.83

Update fix

2.82

Website/Url ‘show the image’ option fix for Formidable 3.x

2.81

Duplicate ‘fail’ fix

2.80

Signature ‘serialized’ fix

2.79

Signature field fix for Formidable 3.x

2.78

‘fpropdf_wpfx_extract_fields’ filter added

2.77

Correct rendering [id] inside Dynamic field

2.76

Repeatable checkboxes fix

2.75

Signature PHP warning fix

2.74

Minor fixes

2.73

‘Notice’ error_reporting frontend fix

2.72

‘Notice’ error_reporting fix (Generate/Download)

2.71

‘Notice’ error_reporting fix

2.70

Empty phone number format fix

2.69

Multiple select field fix

2.68

Repeatable Multiple select field fix

2.67

Dynamic field multiply shortcodes fix

2.66

Formidable: Dynamic field added

2.65

Dynamic password fix

2.64

Dynamic attachment name/password fix when form using IDs

2.63

Dynamic password

2.62

Option “Do not store entries” – empty data pdf fix

2.61

Dynamic email attachment name (by Field ID)

2.60

? unicode fix

2.59

Uninstall db fix

2.58

Update version control

2.57

Backup restore entries fix

2.56

/tmp folder check

2.55

Formidable check fix

2.54

Select field text fix

2.53

Restore backup fix

2.52

PDF file name fix

2.51

UTF-8 fix

2.50

Bugfix for encoding data

2.49

Bugfix for import field map

2.48

Bugfix for show active websites

2.47

Bugfix for format for same line [line1] [line2]

2.46

Bugfix for field names in PDF

2.45

Delete ‘Pdf’ attachments after sending mail

2.44

Add link in admin under ACTIVATED FORMS tab

2.43

‘Unicode’ language support

2.42

Show only current site url in admin

2.41

‘Upload’ folders permission issue.

2.40

‘Carriage return to comma’ and shortcode empty issue

2.39

Bugfix for empty short code issue.

2.38

Bugfix for slahes issue.

2.37

Bugfix for compatipility with some other plugins.

2.35

Allow editors to manage fieldsets.

2.34

Optimize getting the dataset field options.

2.33

Bugfix for signature.

2.32

Bugfix for the Image URL field.

2.31

Bugfix for temp directory detection.
Bugfix for signature.
Temp directory cleaning optimization.

2.30

Bugfix for disabled mbstring.

2.29

Multiple checkboxes bugfix.

2.28

Add Address and Credit Card fields.
Ampersand bugfix after Formidable Forms update.

2.27

Prevent unnecessary error messages in the PHP error log.
Bugfix for version notification.

2.26

Bugfix after MySQL functions update.

2.25

Bugfix after MySQL functions update.

2.24

Compatibility with MariaDB and PHP7.
Removed mysql_* functions.

2.23

Check if mysql_connect() function exists, and show an error message if it doesn’t.

2.22

Compatibility with WP 4.5

2.21

Fixing Failed to load PDF issues.

2.20

Multiple checkboxes bugfix for separate repeatable fields.

2.19

Field keys in repeatable fields.

2.18

Bugfix for automatic field map creation.

2.17

Additional option for restricting user downloads by role or user ID.

2.16

Improved “role” shortcode parameter.

2.15

Improved “role” shortcode parameter.

2.14

New shortcode parameters (role, user). Improved formatting options.

2.13

Improved repeatable fields.

2.12

Bugfix for PDF filename in Firefox.

2.11

Image alignment options.

2.10

Image alignment options.

2.9

Updated Demo. Added automatic mapping for new field maps.

2.8

Uninstall hooks to delete all plugin data, when plugin is uninstalled.

2.7

Bugfix for checkboxes/radio labels.

2.6

Bugfix for checkboxes/radio labels

2.5

Additional date formats.

2.4

Additional date formats.

2.3

Bugfix for offline sites.

2.2

Bugfix for Capitalize ALL formatting option.

2.1

Bugfix for field names (IP, item key, …).

2.0

Replaced field IDs with field keys in field map designer.
Field map designer: save button will automatically select saved field map.
Bugfix for generated PDF hook.
Bugfix for multiple PDF attachments.

1.7.39

Improvements for slow servers; options for offline websites.

1.7.38

Only compatible field maps for forms can be selected.

1.7.37

Licence key won’t be removed automatically when the key expires.

1.7.36

Removed missing repeatble fields shortcodes.

1.7.35

Secure download links.

1.7.34

Plugin hook for saving PDFs.

1.7.33

Images in PDFs.

1.7.32

Date for Formidable updated at / created at fields is now in local time. Image uploads in PDF files.

1.7.31

Additional counters.

1.7.30

Additional Webform Data Field ID.

1.7.29

Additional formatting options that can be changed using a plugin.

1.7.28

Additional formatting option for numbers.

1.7.27

Additional formatting option to capitalize all text.

1.7.26

Additional formatting option for dates.

1.7.25

Additional formatting option for numbers.

1.7.24

Fix multiple checkbox fields for non-premium users.

1.7.23

Fix multiple checkbox fields for non-premium users.

1.7.22

Additional formatting options in repeatable fields.

1.7.21

Date formatting in repeatable fields.

1.7.20

TypeIn signatures support.

1.7.19

Fixed bug with saving field maps. Added automatic backups for your field maps.

1.7.18

Fixed bug with quotes in PDF field names.

1.7.17

Added a new field where you can change PDF file name in e-mails. Fixed issue with special characters in PDF field names.

1.7.16

Added a new field where you can change PDF file name in e-mails. Fixed issue with special characters in PDF field names.

1.7.15

Bugfixes, support for embedded form IDs.

1.7.14

Bugfixes.

1.7.13

New formatting option, bugfixes.

1.7.12

Added HTML fields, and a formatting option that removes empty lines in text field value.

1.7.11

Added warning for old Formidable plugin versions.

1.7.10

Temporary folder bugfix for some servers.

1.7.9

Bugfix for special UTF-8 characters.

1.7.8

New formatting option. Debug info for clients.

1.7.7

PDFaid bugfixes.

1.7.6

Added conversion to DOCX using PDFaid.

1.7.5

Bugfixes.

1.7.4

Added new flatten option to transform text into images. No one will be able to copy-paste text from your PDFs.

1.7.3

Made field map names required field.

1.7.2

Added settings page. Field previews won’t slow down field map designer anymore (unless enabled in settings).

1.7.1

Bugfix for checkboxes.

1.7.0

Compatibility with WP 4.3. Possibility to select which e-mail notifications should have PDF attachments. New shortcode parameter label=0 that outputs only URL of the PDF file.

1.6.0.17

Bugfix

1.6.0.16

Compatibility with WordPress 4.3. Added formatting option for free version.

1.6.0.15

Better support for multiple checkboxes.

1.6.0.14

Added alert for PHP version, bugfixes.

1.6.0.13

Added support for dynamic Formidable fields.

1.6.0.12

Bugfix for CSS conflict with Fusion Builder.

1.6.0.11

Added new formatting options for dates. Removed extra lines in multiline text fields on some servers.

1.6.0.10

Add repeatable sections support.

1.6.0.9

Fix bug when saving layout.

1.6.0.8

Missing files bugfix.

1.6.0.7

Corrected encoding issues, added password protection, added button to duplicate layouts.

1.6.0.6

Removed PHP warnings, sorted WebForm Field IDs, removed unused WebForm Fields.

1.6.0.5

Updated plugin URL.

1.6.0.4

Signature plugin.

1.6.0.3

Bugfixing, email attachments.

1.6.0.2

Removed default form files, Tested compatibility with WordPress 4.2.2

1.6.0.1

Tested compatibility with WordPress 4.2.1 and Formidable Forms 2.0.04

1.6

Added shortcodes, export into PDF, API interface, Fields Map Designer.