Exporting as PDF
FormGenius exports your form as a PDF/UA-compliant PDF — a PDF that is structured for screen reader access. This section explains what that means and how to export.
What is PDF/UA?
PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) is the international standard for accessible PDFs. A PDF/UA-compliant document has a tagged structure tree — a hidden layer that tells screen readers what each element is: a heading, a paragraph, a form field, an image with a description, or a decorative shape to ignore.
Without this structure, a screen reader user receives a PDF as an undifferentiated stream of text (or, in the worst case, nothing at all). With it, they can navigate by heading, skip to specific fields, and interact with the form independently.
Most form builders do not produce tagged PDFs. FormGenius tags every exported PDF automatically.
Exporting
Click the Export PDF button in the editor header. The PDF is generated entirely in your browser — no files are sent to any server. Download begins immediately.
Known limitations
- Rounded corners on form fields
- The PDF specification (AcroForm format) does not support border-radius on form field widgets. If you set rounded corners on a text field, checkbox, or dropdown in the editor, the rounded corners will display correctly on the canvas and in web forms, but will export as sharp corners in the PDF. This is a PDF specification limitation, not a bug.
- Font mapping
- PDF documents use a limited set of standard fonts. The fonts you choose in the editor are mapped to the closest PDF-compatible equivalent on export:
- Inter, Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Montserrat, Poppins, Raleway → Helvetica
- Playfair Display, Merriweather → Times Roman
- Ubuntu → Courier
The visual appearance in the PDF will be very close but not pixel-identical to the canvas.