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Generate PDF From Google Forms With Form Publisher

This document provides instructions for using the Form Publisher add-on to generate PDFs from Google Form submissions. It involves creating a Google Form with questions for each field in the PDF, creating a template document with placeholders for the form responses, connecting the form and template in Form Publisher, and configuring options like the file naming convention and email delivery. Submitting the form will trigger Form Publisher to populate the template with the responses and generate a PDF file that is saved and sent by email.

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Generate PDF From Google Forms With Form Publisher

This document provides instructions for using the Form Publisher add-on to generate PDFs from Google Form submissions. It involves creating a Google Form with questions for each field in the PDF, creating a template document with placeholders for the form responses, connecting the form and template in Form Publisher, and configuring options like the file naming convention and email delivery. Submitting the form will trigger Form Publisher to populate the template with the responses and generate a PDF file that is saved and sent by email.

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Generate PDF from Google Forms with Form

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Form Publisher Team
Updated 5 days ago

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Use Form Publisher to be able to save your form's data in a PDF document for each submission. That will let
you transform your Google Form into a PDF generator.

In this article:

 1. Create a Google Form


 2. Build your form
 3. Create your template
 4. Open Form Publisher
 5. Configure Form Publisher as PDF Generator
 6. Test your form to PDF configuration

You will have control over the PDF through a document that you will use as a template for the
generation, and you will even be able to send those generated PDF to some specified email
addresses, and even the form respondent.
Below are the step-by-step instructions with the corresponding explanations to guide you through
Form Publisher.
1. Create a Google Form
Go to Google Forms, and create a form. The form will be generated empty.
From that point, if you already have the template document that you wish to generate as a PDF
through the form, you can start creating questions in your form for each field of the PDF that you
want to be dynamical. And if you don't, you can create a question for each info that you wish to
display in the output PDF.
2. Build your form
So, for example, if we want our form to create a Purchase order in PDF, we have to create a
question for each field that will be dynamical in the document.
So our Google Form looks like that: 

3. Create your template


Suppose the document that you wish to generate is a Word, Excel, PowerPoint document. In that
case, you can convert them to Google Doc, Sheet or slide by uploading them to the Drive then
click open with Doc/Sheet/Slide this will generate a version of the document compatible with
Google Drive.
If the only copy of the document that you wish to generate is a PDF, you will have to reproduce
the document in a Google Spreadsheet or a Google Doc or Google Slide.
To help you to get started with your template, you can use those examples as a base
for Docs, Sheet and Slide.
So now to configure a template that will work with Form Publisher, we need to replace the
current data of the field that we want to be dynamical with Form Publisher markers. Markers are
really simple to implement: title of the question in the Google Form inside "<< >>". So, for
example, the marker for the question Plan purchased will be <<Plan purchased>>.
4. Open Form Publisher
Click on the add-on menu icon, then Form Publisher and Get started.

5. Configure Form Publisher as PDF Generator


So now you can specify that you already have your template document. Click Select
template and then select it in the picker.
 
Then you can check that all the marker that you use in your template are matching with questions
from the form. You can also edit the date format, or the way checkboxes' answers will be
displayed.
 
Then select the naming convention of the generated PDF and choose to save the PDF in the
output folder. You can also decide to change the output folder.
And in the end, select who will receive the PDF file by emails. 
 
6. Test your form to PDF configuration
You can try to submit the form to see how Form Publisher works.
As we configured sharing option of Form Publisher, the email submitted in <<Company
email>> (here [email protected]) and [email protected] will receive the
generated PDF. 
If you go back to your form and click on In drive from the sidebar, you will find the generated
PDF, and any new file generations will also be stored in this Drive folder.

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