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Email a PDF Form

bcor224
Registered: Jan 28 2008
Posts: 2

I'm having a problem emailing a PDF form thatI've created. I've followed the following steps:

Modify the the standard Designer Email button to send the entire PDF.

1. Add an email button to your form.
2. Select the button and open the XML view
3. Scroll down to the "Event" tag
4. Inside the "Submit" tag, change:

format="xml" to format="pdf"

5. Switch back to the "Design View" and save the file

But when I try to email the form I get:
"The operation is not permitted"

Any suggestions?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.3, Windows
Formfingers
Registered: Feb 7 2007
Posts: 90
Try the following:

Your button should be a "plain" Button (NOT the default "Email" button Designer has in the toolbars menu). Once you have a regular button placed in your form, open your script editor. Rather than using the "Submit" event, select "Click". Copy/paste in the following script exactly as shown:

event.target.submitForm({cURL:"mailto:supplierforum [at] youremail [dot] com?subject=Submitted Form&body=Please find attached the completed PDF form.",cSubmitAs:"PDF",cCharset:"utf-8"});Obviously, change out the sample text shown in quotes above to read as you want, including the email address it needs to go to. See if that works for you.
dk3dknight
Registered: Jan 22 2008
Posts: 136
Also remember that for Acrobat Reader users you will need to enable Reader rights by reopening your form in Acrobat Pro and going to advance -> enable reader rights.or

Create a distribution whichever way floats your boat.

Both ways will set the user rights.