You could use Designer, if you were interfacing with Adobe's LifeCycle product line in the backend. Which, depending on volume, may be the solution you would want to pursue.
For a simpler approach, you could use the AcroForms technology that is baked into Acrobat Pro. There are some legal issues that need to be taken into consideration here if you want to save the form data with the PDF before sending it back.
However, if you just want a button to e-mail the form data (without the PDF) back to a URL, this is a fairly trivial thing to do. In A7 (A8 works similarly) - Create your form using the built in form tools. Be sure to give your fields meaningful names.
Add a button, to be pressed upon submittal.
Go into the button's properties - for action choose "Submit a form" then add.
Fill in the blanks and you are done.
The URL will need to be able to "catch" the inbound datagram and process it. An exercise left to the reader.
If you wish to e-mail the form (why this is not in the dropdown is beyond me), you will need to code it up using the doc.mailMsg() method as the core. The Acrobat JS Ref and Scripting guides have some samples to help you out.
Douglas Hanna is a member of the Production Print Technology team at Aon.
www.aonhewitt.com
For a simpler approach, you could use the AcroForms technology that is baked into Acrobat Pro. There are some legal issues that need to be taken into consideration here if you want to save the form data with the PDF before sending it back.
However, if you just want a button to e-mail the form data (without the PDF) back to a URL, this is a fairly trivial thing to do. In A7 (A8 works similarly) - Create your form using the built in form tools. Be sure to give your fields meaningful names.
Add a button, to be pressed upon submittal.
Go into the button's properties - for action choose "Submit a form" then add.
Fill in the blanks and you are done.
The URL will need to be able to "catch" the inbound datagram and process it. An exercise left to the reader.
If you wish to e-mail the form (why this is not in the dropdown is beyond me), you will need to code it up using the doc.mailMsg() method as the core. The Acrobat JS Ref and Scripting guides have some samples to help you out.
Douglas Hanna is a member of the Production Print Technology team at Aon.
www.aonhewitt.com