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2010-02-21 11:30:56
Sugardale
Registered: Feb 21 2010
Posts: 2

I am new to Acrobat, so please bear with me. I have Acobat 9 Pro Extended and Live Cycle Designer 8.2. I have designed a simple order form that needs to be filled out from our web site and emailed back to our office. I have the form designed and form fields are working well. I have both a "Print Button" and "Email Submit Button" on the form. The Print Button works fine but the Email Button I am having a problem with. The email address the form is returned to could be opened on a system with or without Pro installed on it. The people filling the form usually only have Reader on their system. For these and other reasons I would like the entire pdf returned, not just the xml data. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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2010-02-21 21:29:34
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mingdichen
Registered: Jan 7 2010
Posts: 29
I answered a smilar question before and I posted here again. Hope it will help you.

"Please try this two button method:
1) "Click Here" Button (visible)
2) "Email" Button (invisible)

1) At Click Event for the "Click Here" button:

Email.event__click.submit.target = "mailto:"+"Your HR Dept address"+"?subject=" Your subject ";

Email.execEvent("click");


xfa.host.messageBox("THANKS FOR COMPLETING THESE STEPS AND SENDING CONFIRMATION."
"", 3, 0);

2) "Email" Button: it will be a real submit button and will submit pdf or xml file


Hope it works for you. And, Thomp is correct that there are so many ways to do this.
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2010-02-21 21:36:31
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mingdichen
Registered: Jan 7 2010
Posts: 29
For your case, you can select to email the entire PDF at Email button Submit As selection.
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2010-02-22 00:42:02
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Dakota5883
Registered: Feb 22 2010
Posts: 7
I'm using Adobe Designer 7.0

I changed the email submit button to a standard button and set the URL to mailto, before the change anyone could submit the data via email either from their desktop or from a web server. Since the change, only I can submit the PDF form via email from the pc that has Designer 7.0 installed.
If a user tries it from their desktop or the web server, the "mailto" function does NOT launch the mail client.
All users pc have WinXP SP3, Outlook 2003 configured and use Adobe Reader 9.0
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