PDF on Submit

Automatically generates and attaches a PDF when a document gets submitted. Works for printable & submittable Doctypes.

Install on Frappe Cloud

1. Go to https://frappecloud.com/dashboard/#/sites and click the "New Site" button.
2. In Step 2 ("Select apps to install"), select "PDF on Submit".
3. Complete the new site wizard.

Install on Self-Hosted

cd frappe-bench
bench get-app https://github.com/alyf-de/pdf_on_submit.git
bench --site MY_SITE install-app pdf_on_submit

Remeber to replace MY_SITE with your site name.

Settings

To change the settings of this app, you can open PDF on Submit Settings via the search bar.

In the Enabled For table, add a row for each DocType you want to enable PDF generation for.

If you don't choose a different configuration, PDFs will be generated with the default Print Format and Letter Head. The PDF is named like the document name.

Alternatively, you can choose a different Print Format and Letter Head for each DocType. You can also define a custom format for the PDF file name.

Filters and different PDFs for the same DocType

It is possible to add multiple rows for the same DocType. In the row's Filters section you can set filters based on the fields of the selected DocType. This way you can generate different PDFs based on the document's content. E.g. say you have two different print formats for the Sales Invoice DocType: one for normal invoices and one for credit notes. You can create two rows with different Print Formats and apply a filter on the Is Return field. This way, when you submit a credit note, the PDF will be generated with the credit note's print format and when you submit a normal invoice, the PDF will be generated with the normal invoice's print format. However, the filters don't need to be exclusive. You can also generate multiple PDFs for the same document.

Background PDF generation

The option Create PDF in Background should be enabled if you want to continue your work immediately. The PDFs will just appear once they are created. (This might require a reload of the current document.) This is recommended if you usually submit many documents in bulk.

Disable this option to get the PDF immediately. In this case, when you submit the document you will see a progress bar while the PDF gets created. When it's done you'll immediately see the PDF attached to the document. This is recommended if you usually submit one document at a time.

Language

The PDF will be created in the language that is specified in the Language field of the current document. In your Customer and Supplier masters you can choose their respective Print Language.

Add translations

To add translations for a new language, please copy pdf_on_submit/locale/main.pot to pdf_on_submit/locale/<language_code>.po and fill in the translations (msgstr) for each msgid. When you're done, you can commit your changes and send a PR.

Licence

Copyright (C) 2025 ALYF GmbH hallo@alyf.de

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.