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Adobe Designer 7 submit by email

kpbullard
Registered: May 14 2010
Posts: 2

I will preface this by saying I am not the most technically gifted, but I am good at following directions.

I have created a form and a working submit by email button. I would like to change a couple of things about how it works if possible. First I would like to submit the completed form, not just the .xml data and second I would like to get rid of the following automatically inserted email message:

"The attached file contains data that was entered into a form. It is not the form itself.

The recipient of this data file should save it locally with a unique name.
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 or later can process this data by importing it back into the blank form or creating a spreadsheet from several data files.
See Help in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 or later for more details."

Can this be done?

Thanks for the help.

Karen

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0, Windows
NK-INC.COM
Registered: Apr 17 2010
Posts: 93
You can submit the whole PDF two ways:

#1: Client Side
Adobe Reader sends the PDF through your Client Email Software. You will not have control over the client email software. If a client-email application doesn't exist, the form will not be sent. You may not have control over the message body. If you need to submit the entire PDF, it will require Extended Rights for Adobe Reader users, and some restrictions apply.


#2: Server-side
Adobe Reader submits the form data to a server-side script, and the message is sent via SMTP server, without client e-mail software. You will have complete control over how the message is sent. You have complete control over the entire message, and subject. The form will be transmitted w/o client-email software installed. The PDF submits the FDF, XDP, XML, XFDF data to a server-side script, and merges a blank form with the data, and attaches it to an e-mail message.


For solution #2, please check out http://www.PDFEmail.net
JessFormFade
Registered: Mar 8 2010
Posts: 7
OK I have a similar problem.

I have a form with a submit button.
In Acrobat Pro I can use the send function.
In Acrobat Reader I get "This operation is not permitted" error.

Help
NK-INC.COM
Registered: Apr 17 2010
Posts: 93
JessFormFade wrote:
OK I have a similar problem.I have a form with a submit button.
In Acrobat Pro I can use the send function.
In Acrobat Reader I get "This operation is not permitted" error.

Help
You are probably sending the entire PDF, which normally Reader forbids.

You can do two things:
#1
Resave the PDF with Reader extended rights.

#2
Submit to a script, and merge the data with the PDF and attach and send an e-mail message from the server.
JessFormFade
Registered: Mar 8 2010
Posts: 7
Thanks,

How do I resave with Reader extended rights?
NK-INC.COM
Registered: Apr 17 2010
Posts: 93
JessFormFade wrote:
Thanks,How do I resave with Reader extended rights?
Save the form with File=>Save AsEnable Rights from file menu:
Advanced=>Enable Reader Extended RightsIt will ask you to save the form, just overright it or save it somewhere else.

But, don't make any changes to it or re-save it once you Enable Reader Extended Rights.
JessFormFade
Registered: Mar 8 2010
Posts: 7
Ahhh Great. Thanks that worked.