🚀 Generate signed PDFs with PDF.co

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Check this out:

  1. Submit a form with name, date, signature and PDF coversheets
  2. Webhook to Integromat
  3. Adds signature, etc to the PDF
  4. Merges it with other PDF uploads from form
  5. Store it or send it anywhere
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Hey. Very nice indeed. Thanks for the heads up. FYI best way to handle the date is to lock the format with a Glide template column and pass that through to Integromat (same goes for numbers with units etc).

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Until this, I’ve used external means to transact PDF-based contracts between clients…this is now going to be added to the Admin section of our app! The signature ability is ideal too!

Thanks for making the demo! :ok_hand:t2:

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I ended up using an inline Integromat conversion:
Screen Shot 2021-09-30 at 1.20.11 PM

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This is pretty cool.

Looking at PDF.co it supports form fill. You may be able to create/use form fields to populate the data and avoid the trial and error frustration with X,Y positioning

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Indeed! The document I used was just a run-of-the-mill PDF I created 5 min prior to the demo. I’m sure there’s a more elegant solution in there.

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Pass a third “GMT”/“UTC” parameter in case you pass the original Glide’s date/time from a datetime picker, otherwise it would show some weird conversion based on your Integromat timezone settings.

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Good call

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Yeah. I had some issues with this in an app with global users. That’s why I template it first in Glide then send that over to Integromat. In those famous words “It’s the only way to be sure”.

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Date formatting is such a PITA.

When I used to use those ridiculously overcomplicated scenarios for CSV exports (remember that one I showed you?), I was forever fighting Integromat to try and get dates formatted the way I wanted. I’d define a data store field as a date type, and Integromat would mangle it. So then I’d try defining it as a string, and something else would break. ARRGG!! The nice thing about the new way - building the CSV in Glide - is that all of those problems instantly melt away, because Integromat doesn’t have to format anything :slight_smile:

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Good stuff! Appreciate everyone’s input on this.

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Happy Cake Day! :tada::partying_face:

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