Confused on hidden fields

Hello, thank you for the plugin.

Our goal is simple I think – to have a PDF attached version of any given Notification email. So whatever is shown in the Notification Email is what is shown in the PDF.

So we have a Notification set which is using the following for its output: {all_fields:exclude[2,299,297,300,302,296,291,217,219,226,282,227,271,266,270,167,195,196,197,267,268,290,289]}

Which works great for the notification email itself. But when we apply the PDF, it does not honor these exclusions.

In addition, we tried turning on the “Enable Conditional” option – but even with that on, it is still outputting fields which, on the form itself, are hidden.

So it seems it simply outputs any field with data, regardless of the above settings. Is that as expected and all the free version is capable of? If not, what might we be missing? Thank you.