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Michael47
Registered: Oct 21 2008
Posts: 9

Newbie here.
Web site designer needs form for client to be posted on site. Client receiving the form needs it to be viewable as a form so they can file a printed copy. I can make the forms and put them on the server but all I can receive is the answers.
Question ? How can I make the form viewable and printable for the end user? I have acrobat 8 Pro the client has only the reader?
Does someone know the direction I need to take to get this done?

Thank You.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
riccarrasquilla
Registered: Sep 24 2008
Posts: 27
I'm not sure if I understand your question.

You can receive the answers. Do you want to receive the completed form?

If the user needs to view and print, you can add a print button on the form. Add the button and under actions select execute menu option and select print from the list.
Michael47
Registered: Oct 21 2008
Posts: 9
Yes I want the client that will receive the completed form from the web site to be able to view it in the form view and print it?
riccarrasquilla
Registered: Sep 24 2008
Posts: 27
If I understand it correctly, the web user fills out the form, sends it to the client and the client wants to view and print.

The way I do it is sent the acrobat to a process page (asp in my case) that receives the form collection (as a post). The process page with the appropriate rights can right a text file. The text file contains the form information in a tab delimited format. The text file is imported into an empty copy of the original form file. Presto. It's done.

I can get into more detail if you would like to contact me via email.
Michael47
Registered: Oct 21 2008
Posts: 9
That sounds right Riccarrasquilla. I would like more information. You can email at > videoguy [at] productions123 [dot] com
I use dreamweaver cs3 and xsitepro 2.0
maxwyss
Online
Registered: Jul 25 2006
Posts: 255
It sounds as if you need a server-side filling for the form.

The "industry standard" server-side tool for that would be FDFMerge by Appligent (http://www.appligent.com). The integration with the back end process is rather straightforward and pretty easy to accomplish.

You would equip your form with a submit button which does submit the filled data to your server (for simple server-side filling without any further processing, FDF is the very easiest, otherwise you might also submit as HTML). The server creates (or transfers) an FDF and feeds it into the server-side fill-out tool, and sends the filled form back to the user. Now, as Reader can save whatever it receives from the server, the filled form can be saved and viewed and printed.

Hope this can help.

Max.
Michael47
Registered: Oct 21 2008
Posts: 9
Thanks Maxwyss
I will check it out and let you know how it worked out for me.