# Downloading a Blank Form Source: https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/manage-forms/download-a-blank-form > Download any form as a blank, printable PDF for completing on paper. Astalty Premium - This feature is part of the Astalty Premium plan. See What Premium includes. ## Overview Download any Astalty form as a **blank PDF** with empty lines, tick boxes and answer areas for handwriting. Use it when someone needs to complete a form away from a device, such as during an intake meeting in a Participant's home, at a site with no reliable internet or when a Participant prefers pen and paper. The download is generated from the form as it currently stands, so it always matches the fields you have in the [Form Builder](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/manage-forms/form-builder). ## Downloading a Blank Form 1. Go to **Forms → [Manage Forms](https://app.astalty.com.au/forms/manage)** and open the form you want. 2. Click **Actions** in the top-right corner. 3. Select **Download Blank Form**. The PDF is generated and downloaded straight away, named with today's date, the form name and the word *Blank* - for example *13-05-2026 Participant Incident Report Form Blank.pdf*. ![The Form Builder for a published Participant Incident Report Form, with the Actions menu open and Download Blank Form highlighted, alongside Duplicate, Copy Link and Get QR Code](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/forms-download-blank-form-action.png) > **You can also download it from a submission** > > When you're viewing a form submission, the **Actions** menu there has a **Download Blank Form** option too. That's handy when you're reading a completed submission and realise you need a fresh paper copy for someone else. See [Viewing Submissions for a Form](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/manage-forms/submissions). > **Unpublished forms work too** > > **Download Blank Form** is available whether the form is published or not, so you can print a draft to review with your team before making it live. (**Copy Link**, **Get QR Code** and **Embed Form** only appear once the form is published.) ## What the Blank PDF Looks Like The PDF opens with your form's name and your organisation's logo, followed by an **Organisation Details** panel showing your organisation name and, where it's recorded, your NDIS Provider Number. Every page is footed with the date it was printed and a page number. Below that, the form's fields appear in the same order and layout as the Form Builder - including full, half and third widths - with space to write: ![Page one of a downloaded blank Participant Incident Report Form PDF, showing the organisation details panel, section headers and empty answer lines and boxes](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/forms-blank-form-pdf-example.png) | Form element | How it prints | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Single Line Text, Email, Mobile Phone, Number, Money, Date, Date and Time, Address | A ruled line to write on | | Participant Select, User Select, Site Select | A ruled line to write the name on | | Multi Line Text | A larger empty box | | Checkbox | A single tick box next to the label | | Dropdown, Multi Select, Radio Buttons | Every option listed with its own tick box or circle, plus an *Other:* line where that's enabled | | Rating | The scale printed in full, with its left and right labels and a circle for each point (or stars for star ratings) | | File Upload | An empty box to attach or note the document | | Image, Annotated Image | The uploaded image, so it can be marked up by hand - or an empty box if no image has been added | | Repeater | A table with your column headings and three blank rows | | Header, Divider, Rich Text Block | Printed as designed, including header background colours and alignment | ## Things to Keep in Mind - **Every field is printed.** Fields controlled by [conditional logic](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/conditional-logic-forms) always appear on the blank PDF, because there are no answers yet to decide what should show or hide. Expect the paper version to be longer than the on-screen form. - **Required fields aren't marked.** The PDF has no asterisks or *Required* labels, so if certain answers are essential it's worth saying so when you hand the form out. - **Placeholders aren't included.** Hint text that appears inside a field on screen isn't printed. - **Archived fields are left out.** Only the form's active fields are included. - **A completed paper form isn't a submission.** Nothing written on the PDF comes back into Astalty. To have it counted in [Submissions](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/manage-forms/submissions) and the [Report](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/manage-forms/report), the answers still need to be entered into the form in Astalty. > **Looking for a PDF of a completed submission?** > > **Download Blank Form** always produces an empty form. To export a submission with its answers filled in, open the submission and choose **Actions → Export as PDF** instead. See [Viewing Submissions for a Form](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/forms/manage-forms/submissions).