# 📄 Print Screen to PDF action! (still under development?)

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 21, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450 "2026-02-21T14:21:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author: ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/1 "2026-02-21T14:21:03Z")

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What is this and how do I use it?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/3/e/3e93b3437b493269dc531547c786610e9d9129aa.png)

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/2 "2026-02-21T15:57:15Z")

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I’ve been trying to play around with this, but it looks like the feature is still under development.

Here’s what I’ve learned so far:

1. From what I can gather, it requires business plan or above at the moment (cannot be on trial plan)
2. There’s a brand new `Print Screen to PDF` action (only 1 update!):  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/d/0da46bb0a35223d2b81ae336e3bde50a9ce60ff6.png)
3. You can specify which components are included within the Print Screen using the `Visible in PDF` dropdown  
 ![CleanShot 2026-02-21 at 10.53.44@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/1/11dbd34a207f1cdb6fa708d23e81c1f32e482221.png)
4. Glide generates a temporary PDF url with a 60-minute expiration
5. Combine this with the `Upload Files` action to permanently save the PDF to Glide

I haven’t been successful creating anything yet though - generating blank pages.

Once this gets going though, it will finally resolve these feature requests from 2020!

> [@Ability to export Screens to PDF](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ability-to-export-screens-to-pdf/13653):
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> Forms are a valuable component for collecting data. In my app, users are employees who enter their performance goals and there is a pretty straightforward but intricate flow of going from setting goals\>self rating goals\>manager rating goals\>rolling up goal ratings to get a performance score\>filling out an assessment/performance review. My big issue at the moment is that as much as we want paperless, digital workflows, eventually many, if not all, customers want the PDF export to print, share by …

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### Author: ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/3 "2026-02-21T16:23:37Z")

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I have scoreboards, leaderboards and scorecards (no @Darren_Murphy it is not a golf app 🙂 ) which would align perfectly with this feature.

Sneaky!

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/4 "2026-02-21T16:26:39Z")

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I’m really hoping this action will be as successful as I think it will be. I’m hoping that it will recognize and honor split containers to create pretty reports etc.

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### Author: ![Simon\_Hill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/simon_hill/32/94730_2.png) [@Simon\_Hill](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Simon_Hill)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/5 "2026-02-21T17:06:16Z")

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Love this update… it will be sooooo useful! Do you think the PDF will transfer the entire screen into 1 PDF page, regardless of full height? I wonder how it manages pages sizes… maybe a scaler option to fit to page!

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/6 "2026-02-21T18:07:29Z")

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I was wondering the same. For now, they’re branding it as a print screen which means page bleed like you were printing from a web page I imagine

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/7 "2026-02-22T01:15:24Z")

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More info on this:

- It generates a “function” URL that when resolved will return a PDF.
- You can use it in an Upload File function like Robert noted to convert it to a PDF link.
- I have a very long page. In my test, it splits into multiple pages (answering @Simon_Hill 's question).

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/8 "2026-02-22T01:51:47Z")

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I haven’t been able to get the temp PDF link to resolve.

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/9 "2026-02-22T02:11:51Z")

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![CleanShot 2026-02-22 at 09.11.00](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/2/c275e79c9cfb5bc3caf818ef0626b8ed6402ec4b.png)

Works normally for me even without the Wait step.

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/10 "2026-02-22T15:47:38Z")

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I’ll need to try it again.

Let’s see some examples of the output!

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### Author: ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/11 "2026-02-22T20:17:36Z")

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Figured out why mine wasn’t generating — I was testing with client on Business trial.

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### Author: ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/12 "2026-02-24T00:02:38Z")

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> **[Print Screen to PDF | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/automation/actions/print-screen-to-pdf)**
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> Capture the current app screen as a PDF.

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### Author: ![Mikaeldorval](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mikaeldorval/32/67405_2.png) [@Mikaeldorval](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mikaeldorval)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2026, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/13 "2026-03-01T23:43:27Z")

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Is it possible to have the generated PDF display the actual theme color of the app in the generated PDF? Also custom CSS doesn’t seem to show up.

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/print-screen-to-pdf-action-still-under-development/86450/14 "2026-03-02T23:41:23Z")

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Looks like it uses a generic print stylesheet that ignores app theme and CSS, for now.
