Emailing a complete fillable form

Your techs need to have at least acrobat reader 7 to be able to save your form with the entered data. Previous versions of the reader did not let you save fillable forms.
Do the following:
1. Make the form in acrobat 7 pro and make sure you enable user rights so they can save the form using the reader (go to the advanced menu and click on enable usage rights in adobe reader)

2. In your email button you placed in the form also add an action to save the form before emailing (execute a menu item> save as) Or place a BIG RED notice in the file saying that the file needs to be saved before emailing.3.Test the form yourself using the FREE reader before you email it to your techs.

I just did a form and all the users pretty much ignored all instructions included in the file and they were emailing blank forms, because they were not downloading the latest version of the reader (needed to be able to save the form) and they were not saving the form before emailing. That's why I decided to add the save as in the email button.

Good Luck.

Sorry but I am a beginner on this software. Where is the advanced menu?

The advanced menu is at the top of the window between the menus "tools" and "window"

Thanks, I feel like a total goof for not seeing it. Guess I am a typical user.
hopefully this will help.

What do you do when they print off the fillable form - and scan it back to you...?
I set the tracker up on a recent document and now I have some data collected all nice and neat in the tracker and the rest is an old fashion mess! I tried adding their responses in, but being that I am a user that already submitted a form, it didn't seem to accept another form from me.

Hi,

Can you teach me how to send the filled out form in pdf to send as a PDF, because currently i created pdf using the Acrobat Professional 8 and Adobe LifeCycle Designer, went the person receive the email it shows special character in the body of the email, i want it to be send the filled out form as an attachement so that the user will just download the filled out pdf.. Please help me regarding my problem.. I need this to be fix asap. And i need this badly..

Thanks And God Bless

Apparently the acrobat.com website was down when I was trying to submit info for other users. So I did receive their info on the tracker and all is well. Except - now acrobat.com is down so I am not able to update or complete any forms.

trigun - in order to send a saved filled out form you can have the "Extend Features in Adobe Reader" option selected in the Advanced menu. (this is for Acrobat 9). Then you can save the filled out form and email it to someone else.

Is there an advanced feature on FREE Acrobat Reader 9? How do I "Extend Features" to allow saving of filled in forms?

Hi Allen_CPA

The ability to Enable fill and save rights in PDFs is only available in Acrobat Professional or Standard, not the free Adobe Reader. So, if the author of the PDF form enables these rights then users of the free Adobe Reader can fill and save the form.

I thought most of the forms from the IRS were Rights enabled for fill and save in Adobe Reader, but it is possible there are some that are not enabled. I know they have enabled those rights in many of their forms in the past, so that is why you were able to do it before. It has nothing to do with which version of Reader you have- it is all on the IRS side when they publish them whether those rights were added or not.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Sure seems correct.