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The field in question had a really long name. This generated a long base64 string for the contact form field. The problem turned out to be possibly the firewall stripping out the field from the request due to possibly detecting a very long base64 string.

In such cases I recommend using the field mapper feature (and not the tag generator).

Send it to admin at maximum dot software.

Looks like another plugin was injecting HTML into AJAX responses.

This is generated by jQuery when it can’t parse AJAX responses from the server. This is due to some extraneous output returned from this server. This can be caused by any number of reasons, from badly written plugins to server configuration.

In order to debug this I would need to see some server responses to AJAX requests from your browser debug facility. If you like I can take a look at those myself, if you send me your WP login info to admin at maximum dot software.

Actually, I was able to finish it rather quickly. I’ve deployed the new version of the plugin just now. Check it out and let me know if you are able to use it.

There is one problem with it, however. I’m currently using PDFtk. It has a bug with flattening of non-latin UTF-8 characters. The filled text is invisible after the flattening of the PDF. Unfortunately, I cannot do much about this problem. I am planning to switch to another PDF tool, however, it will be costly and it will take a while to do this.

I’m currently half way through implementing this feature. Can you give me a week or so?

Hi. I am not sure what you mean exactly. Can you elaborate? Do you mean password protect? Maybe disable editing of the form? Let me know.

Strange, I am monitoring everything. It has been working fine today. Maybe you have an unrelated issue? Check your firewall?

Can you go to https://pdf.ninja/ and use the ‘Try me’ buttons? Does it work for you?

If you like, I can log in to your WordPress installation and debug it for you. Send me your information to admin at maximum dot software.

It would not be a shortcode but attachment tags (or whatever they are called).

I’m thinking to just add another section to the PDF tag generator thickbox where you would be able to input attachment tag names and their parameters. The signature plugin adds the [signature] attachment tag, so, I will be able to use that.

There may also be other plugins that add image attachment tags to the contact forms, such as image upload (user picture, for example). It will be possible to insert those into the PDF as well.

I was planning to use the attachment name. You will need to specify attachment name, page, coordinates, size, etc, in the plugin interface. This will be a bit manual so that is why I didn’t want to implement it this way.

Unfortunately, the tool I am using in the back end (pdftk) does not have a feature that would allow me to implement what you need.

A couple of users have asked me about this feature. I did some research it turns out that I can’t easily implement this feature without switching to another tool. I am planning to begin rewriting some of the back end code and eventually switch to a better solution, however, this will take a while.

Meanwhile, what I can do is implement a quick fix which can get you half way there. I was thinking about implementing a feature which will allow users to embed one of the attached pictures anywhere in the PDF at a preset coordinates. However, it will be a while (maybe couple of months) before I can release it. How soon do you need this?

There was a DevOps issue. It has now been resolved. I am sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you.

Regarding “couldn’t connect to host,” please make sure your hosting environment doesn’t block outgoing connections to https://pdf.ninja (port 443 or 80). If would you like me to debug it for you, send me an email to admin at maximum dot software.

Regarding edit button not doing anything, I need some information. What browser/version and OS are you using?

This is just a limitation of CF7. You can’t hide the ‘On’ value as far as I know. See https://contactform7.com/checkboxes-radio-buttons-and-menus/

What you can do is remove <label>, use ‘label_first’ and edit the value of the checkbox within the PDF from ‘On’ to ‘A’.

Closing this issue for now, it seems like you found a solution.