I'm sure this question has been asked in many different ways but I don't seem to find a question that has all my elements combined. Anyways, here goes.
I created a fillable pdf form in Adobe LiveCycle that works fine. I created a submit button that saves the form in pdf and asks the user to choose outlook or hotmail etc.., it writes the e-mail address in the "To:" section and attaches the pdf inside the e-mail. All this is great but unfortunately, my client's target audience for using the form are not computer friendly. They cannot update their acrobat reader to 9.0 in order for the form to work properly. They manage to open the form, fill it out but they have problems at the "Submit" point. Although it works perfectly fine, this method has to be scrapped because of this.
Plan B (make it as easy and user friendly as possible): I want to modify the Submit Button to send the "Filled Out PDF Form" to the web server where my client can retrieve the pdf forms. I want the target audience to not have to worry about the version of their reader in order to submit the form (in other words they can still do it with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 let's say !!!)
My question is, in LiveCycle, they show you how to point the Submit button to send the file to the cgi-bin of your url but it doesn't work. From reading some of the other questions and responses, I need to put a script on my server to received the pdf.
1) Is it enough to have the Submit button point to the cgi-bin if I put a script in the cgi-bin ?
2) Where can I find a simple script to put in the cgi-bin to receive the PDF?
3) Is what I want to do possible or am I going about it all wrong?
By the way, my client's server is Unix based
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide me, it is three weeks that I am trying to solve this problem !!!