PDF Server
The PDF Server enables the uploading of existing PDF's as well as downloading submissions as PDF documents. The PDF Server can also be found on Docker Hub at the following URL.
​formio/pdf-server​
A common deployment command for the PDF server looks as follows.
docker run -itd \-e "LICENSE_KEY=YOURLICENSE" \-e "MONGO=mongodb://mongo:27017/formio" \-e "FORMIO_S3_SERVER=minio" \-e "FORMIO_S3_PORT=9000" \-e "FORMIO_S3_BUCKET=formio" \-e "FORMIO_S3_KEY=CHANGEME" \-e "FORMIO_S3_SECRET=CHANGEME" \--network formio \--link formio-mongo:mongo \--link formio-minio:minio \--restart unless-stopped \--name pdf-server \-p 4005:4005 \formio/pdf-server;
Which uses the following Environment Variables.
Environment Variable | Description |
| A Form.io license key |
| Mongo connection string, same as formio-enterprise setting. |
| The DB Secret, same as formio-enterprise setting. |
| Mongo database name, if using localhost |
| SA certificate if using SSL DB connection |
| Whether to enable using docker secrets. |
| The path to the docker secrets. |
| URL to a version of the pdf viewer application |
| S3 server URL |
| S3 server port |
| S3 server bucket name |
| S3 access key |
| S3 secret key |
| Boolean to indicate if the license key provided is an offline remote license key. |
| Determines how long (in milliseconds) the browser can run and execute before timing out. Default is 120000 milliseconds or 2 minutes. |
| Perform debugging within a PDF server. The following debug commands will do the following. This uses the Debug Module for Node.js so documentation can be found @ https://github.com/visionmedia/debug. - - - - - - |
Now that you have the PDF server operational as well as the API Server, the next thing that needs to happen is to configure the Form.io Portal to use the correct DNS url for the PDF Server url. This is necessary because the "internal" DNS url is used within the Enterprise Server configurations, and we now need to let the Portal know how to directly communicate to the PDF Server. To set this up, you will first need to navigate to your Project Settings, and then click on PDF Server configuration page. Here you will then need to provide the Public DNS url to the pdf server as follows.
Once you have done this, you should now be able to upload an existing PDF form, where it will then convert that PDF document into a Form.io webform overlay on top of that PDF form.
