Labelling the Email Button in an interactive form

Hi Shari-Shmari,

In the Properties dialog for the button under the Options tab in Layout choose Label Only and in the section for Icon and Label enter the Text you want for the button in the Label Text field. You will see there are a few other options in this dialog, for example you could have a grpahic for your button, and you can also set the button appearance to be different when it receives a mouse click or the user rolls over it. Play aorund with these options- you can create very nice button effects if you want.

Hope this helps,

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

Hello Dimitri and Thank you! Your advice was perfect!

For some reason, when my friend opened the doc I sent using the enabling technique you mentioned, it still only offered her the option to save a copy, not save or save as. She has Adobe Acrobat 5 (reader). Is this too early a reader version for the Enabling Usage Rights in Adobe Reader, to work? Thank you!

Hi Shari-Shmari,

Yes, Acrobat Reader 5 will NOT work for the end user to be able to save the form after filling in data. Adobe only added the ability to enable the fill and save rights in Acrobat 8 Professional (and then when Acrobat 9 came out made it available in both Professional and Standard). When the feature was added to Acrobat version 8, I believe it was set up to work for Reader 7 and above, but I know it works in Reader version 8 and above.

So you will need to get the end users to update Adobe Reader- nice thing is that it is free, and by updating they will get the ability to do much more with Reader so it's a good idea in any case.

Hope this helps,

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

Thanks again. Perhaps I can put a link to where people can get this reader for FREE (TRULY For free).
I plan to send these forms out to customers by email and would like to provide the link to where they can get it for free, directly in the email.
Do you know the correct link for this please?

Hi Shari-Shmari,

Sure, lots of people put messages in their PDF forms or emails that say something like "In order to save this dicument you will need the Free Adobe Reader version 8 or later...."
Here is a link for the download page at Adobe's web site-
http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO

Hope this helps,

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

Hi, Sorry if this has been asked already.....I'm so frustrated :(
Make a great form in Acrobat 8 professional. Added an email button using the button field tool. Labelled it Email. How do I actually get it to be SENT IN EMAIL now?
On the properties box, OPTIONS TAB, this is what I have selected:
Layout: Label Only
Behaviour: :Push
Icon and Label: STate: UP, Label: Email
Everything else on that tab is grayed out.
Action Tab:
Action: Mouse up
Select an Action: Execute a menu item (nothing else in that drop down has anything to do with EMAILING A FORM)
and in the white ACTIONS BOX, nothing is marked. It's blank.

How do I ADD something to this actions tab that tells the button to send an email with my address in it?

I sincerely hope this is clear....
thank you so much for any help...

Hi Shari-Shmari,

On the buttons' Action tab for Select Action choose "Submit a Form" and then click Add. In the dialog box that appears for the Enter URL... put in mailto:youremail [at] youremailaddress [dot] com then choose the export format which I assume you want to be the whole PDF so select "PDF the Complete Document"However, one HUGE caveat to using this method is that it relies on the end user having a MAPI email client set up correctly. If they do, what happens is that when they click your submit button their email client ( ex OutLook) will open a new message with your email address filled in and the PDF already attached. Then they must Send the email by using Send/Receive or it will go out whenever their email client does the next send/receive.

If the end user only has online email like HotMail, Yahoo etc, this does not work automatically- they need to attach the file to the email themselves.

Hope this helps,

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

Thanks Dimitri, but unfortunately, on the Action Tab, for select action, there is no option called submit a form otherwise I would add it and then expect to see the dialog box come up where I can enter my email address. Is there anything I Can do to make there be a SUBMIT a FORM option in the select action field? Perhaps I have to create the email button in Livecycle? I must be missing something important!!

Hi Dimitri. I closed the whole document and reopened it and there was the submit form option!. Thanks. But now I'm wondering how to create this email button so that it works on all programs like hotmail etc.......without the user having to attach the file themself. What is the way around this please? (to make it sendable by ALL email programs). Remember, this form is not going into any database.
Thanks again :)

That's not related to Adobe, but to the way the OS is set up to handle mailto links.