This looks great and is so helpful.

Great feature! Not sure if this is in the pipeline, but I think it will be good to have a workflow action that can take a PDF form and email it as attachment or save it in library.

I agree with Ivan Yankulov​!  I suggested this as well, at the Ignite Conference when this feature was first discussed

Baby steps lads

Hi Ed,

It's not on our roadmap but out Product Team is looking at it. You can help them gauge interest from the user community by requesting it on the Nintex Uservoice site:

Customer Feedback for Nintex

That is a good idea!

In Nintex Forms for Office 365:

110 votes,

Save Nintex Form as PDF

Add a feature so we can save a Nintex Form as a PDF and email it. This is especially useful when approvals are required. "Alex Burton (Admin, Nintex) responded · July 22, 2015 I am pleased to confirm we are planning this feature now for on-premises and 365"

I hope it IS on the roadmap!

Hi Andrew Wolfe​,

You can use the CSS rule "@Media print" to adjust any additional styles for print only.

Hi Gerard Hyland​,

Now that we have implemented Print to PDF for on-premises we are planning the feature for Office365.

Cheers,
Euan

What's the recommended approach for tabbed based forms? (in terms of printing) Given that typically you would have just panels stacked one after the other with rules to show hide, is there a rule setting that will present all of the panels and perhaps hide the tab control?

I haven't tested a built in solution as part of the print control, but you could always create a rule along with say a tab to display all panels.  Just a thought anyways.

Hi Alan Coulter​,

The Print to PDF feature works based on what is visible on the screen so it will only print visible panels.

Cheers,

Euan

Print to PDF excellent feature. Greatly helps the value proposition for Form Enterprise.

Part 2 - nintex form print to pdf via a nintex workflow would be great.

(I'll put that into user voice or vote for it).

We are currently using nintex forms and workflows for a leave application system.

The ability for a workflow to convert the nintex form to pdf once leave is completed as an archive would complete this solution.

Cheers

Yes, to add "Print to PDF" as a Workflow Action would be great!

What i don't understand is, that this is an enterprise exclusive feature...

Hi Derek,

I'm sorry if the decision to include the Print to PDF functionality in Nintex Forms Enterprise disappoints you. I will certainly pass your feedback along to the product team.

That said, here are a few observations that may help explain our position. One does not need Nintex Forms Enterprise to print a form and many of our customers simply do not have occasion to print their forms or they may have another strategy in place to create and print structured documents. But, since a subset of customers need increased functionality, similar to other premium offerings on the market (think print view in InfoPath), we offer Nintex Forms Enterprise which includes not only Print to PDF but a discrete SQL and Web Request controls and entitlement to build one Nintex Mobile Enterprise app.

So as you can see there is an incredible amount of value to consider when deciding to invest in the Enterprise version of Forms.

Best,

Brad

For those looking for a way to hide buttons on a form that they are printing to PDF, simply paste the below CSS into the Custom CSS section of the form settings:

@media print

{
input[type=button], input[type=reset], input[type=submit], button {display:none}
}

This rule will prevent any buttons from being rendered in the printed view.

Hi diana Asmar​,

We are currently looking into how we can bring this feature into Office365. We will update Uservoice (http://nintex.uservoice.com) when the status changes.

Cheers,

Euan

Speaking of which, it would be cool if there was a Print to PDF button control with said logic already built into it.   Might be a good one for the User voice forum if its not there already.

Any plans to include this feature in Forms Standard? Or whats very interesting too, integrate it in Workflow Enterprise, so we automatically convert the from to a PDF

If you're using Forms Standard, as a workaround I recommend trying to print in Google Chrome (which also offers a basic Print to PDF feature as the default print option). IE isn't nice when it comes to printing Nintex forms that contain panel controls that fall on a page break -- especially if the panel acts as a container for controls which is usually the case.

In IE (but not Chrome), printing a Nintex form where a panel control is on the default page break effectively breaks the basic printing functionality of a Nintex form. Chrome and IE appear to handle Nintex form print mode differently when it comes to page breaks -- Chrome slices through the elements whereas IE pushes elements up or down the page. IE print mode will therefore cause overlapping of elements. This may be a stretch but it may also may be that the “@media print” code or related printing code in Nintex forms may have a bug or an unsupported technique, so IE treats it in a jumbled/overlapping way. Chrome is generally much more forgiving when it comes to bugs or unsupported techniques in a web page. The print handling may simply be a difference in approaches by the browsers though.

I can't say that there are any specific plans at this point in time but the product team is always looking for feedback to help prioritize development efforts. That said, please follow the link below to up vote this suggestion on our customer feedback site:

Workflow action to convert Nintex Form to pdf – Customer Feedback for Nintex

It would appear there is now!!!

https://community.nintex.com/community/tech-blog/blog/2016/07/20/the-continuing-journey-to-a-paper-less-office-in-the-cloud

We always hide the sharepoint ribbon on the top cause it looks ugly... is there a way to have he pdf print button in inside the form as a button??

Where does the PDF file go when you print to pdf on IPad or mobile devices?

Hi, I am also looking into the pdf file that can be send as an attachment to the email to the manager for his review. This is for him to open the file directly. This is also good when the manager is using mobile phone. No need for him to click on the link then enter password and log in. Just click the pdf file.