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How to email a filled form in PDF not XML

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2008-07-11 08:32:58
easybill
Registered: Jul 11 2008
Posts: 2

Greetings.
I'm new to Acrobat Professional 8, but I've managed to convert one of our many forms to "fillable" so, our clients can "fill in the blanks" on these forms, which are stored on one of our websites. Then I added the button to email the form, and it works, but the attached data is in .XML format, and I had hoped it would just be the completed (filled in) PDF form that came back to use via email. Is this possible?
Thanks.

Bill Crawford
The Hall China Company
East Liverpool, Ohio

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
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2008-07-11 09:50:11
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photoaz
Registered: Aug 10 2007
Posts: 45
Well if you have the time you can go back to the original form and from Acrobat and not Livecycle create a form in Acrobat that can be saved and sent back in an email as an attachment. You can use the typewriter function and even add check boxes and other cool features.

Or you can use the Distribute Forms feature of Livecycle and the collected info will be a PDF. First create a folder for the Master Form and from the Master form click on the Distribute Form Icon in Livecycle. This will walk you through setting up an Email address, Publication PDF, and a Data collection PDF. Put the Pub and Data PDFs in their own folders. Makes it much easier to send the right PDF out to clients or have it linked from a Webpage. Then only send the Pub PDF to everyone. When the PDFs start coming back double click on them and they will be loaded into the Data collection PDF. These will have a copy of the PDF with all the lines filled in. You just select the Row you want then print the PDF. This info can also be exported as a spreadsheet to other departments.

Bill Guy

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