PDF Downloads for Form Submissions

The Feature

I added PDF download functionality for form submissions (15c239da). Submissions had lived only as records in the admin UI, which is fine for viewing but awkward for sharing. A PDF makes a submission something you can attach to an email, print, or archive.

Why PDF

A form submission is frequently part of an offline workflow—a signed quote, an event request, an application. Generating a document from it means staff stop re-typing data from the screen into another format. PDF is boring and universal, which is exactly what a document that leaves the system should be.

Rendering Is Its Own Problem

PDF generation always surfaces layout issues you don’t see in HTML: page breaks, missing fonts, content that runs off the edge. I kept the layout simple and verified it against real submissions rather than a hand-crafted example.

A Focused Feature

One feature, one day. The mail infrastructure work continues around it, but a straightforward user-facing improvement landed cleanly.