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somogyi
Registered: Jun 12 2007
Posts: 3

I have created a form using Acrobat Professional 8.
Everything works, but here is my problem:
When the clients, using the free Adobe Reader, click on the "Submit by email" button, the form data is attached, but there is a pre-written message in the body of the email.
This pre-written message is extremely confusing for the user/client, because it warns them that only the data will be submitted, not the form itself.

Is there a way to get rid of this pre-written message?

Thanks.
Karoly

carrimak
Team
Registered: Dec 13 2006
Posts: 165
Yes; there is this workaround:

1. Use a regular button from the tool bar, and label it however you want.

2. Select Action, "Execute a menu item" and then choose "Run a Javascript".

3. Then, paste this javascript into the box, subsituting the correct email address and the subject line you want. That should do it! No message; just the subject line and the attached PDF with data filled in, if that's how you've set it up.

this.mailDoc ({
cTo:
"email [at] domain [dot] org",
cSubject: "add subject line here",});

Hope this helps!!

Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.

somogyi
Registered: Jun 12 2007
Posts: 3
It works!!! Fantastic!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

One more thing: is it possible not to send (submit) the whole document (form), just the data (user-entred) only?
Still, without any pre-written message in the body of the email.

Thanks again, you saved my day.

Karoly
capobianco
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 1
have created a form using Acrobat Professional 7.
Everything works, but here is my problem:
When the clients, using the free Adobe Reader 8, click on the "SubmitForm" button send a url, open a new window with default page (GOOGLE); with Adobe Reader 7 this did not happen.

what I must make ?

Thank
Anthony

NB.Excused for my English
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
AI at work?

Have you tired to search for "Adobe, Reader, e-mail"?

The free Reader says it all. The product is a reader not a saver or emailer. When a full version of Acrobat emails a PDF, it first saves the PDF and then opens the e-mail application and attaches the saved PDF to the e-mail.

Your choices are:
1. Enable the Extended Reader Rights with Acrobat Professional 8 or the Reader Extension server
2. Pay a 3rd party to apply the extended rights to the PDF
3. Submit the PDF's form data to a web server that can use cgi or other scripting language and has an e-mail application to create and e-mail the pdf as instructed
4. Pay a 3rd party to supply the web server process above

George Kaiser