Total 'newbie' here, so please have mercy. I created a form using Acrobat 8 Pro and have edited it in Designer. I put a link to it on a DMX site I created, to test my work. The link opens in Reader 8, I fill in form, and click the Submit for email button--my default Outlook 03 email client opens, and now the PDF form has an extension of XML--why?
My problem (or one of many) is that I do not know how to pull data from a XML file and get it into a spreadsheet--the form that our instructors want to use for viewing returned data.
I learned how to get from PDF to CSV to spreadsheet, which is what I want to always do, but this XML file business has brought my progress to a screeching halt! I have Googled and forumed my brains out on this, with no luck.
I have no clue what to do with this file--why does the original PDF get changed into this XML and how can it be stopped?
I do not want to use the Distribute Forms feature--I want a PDF form link on our web page, instead. How is this done?
Thanks much to all--any direction will be truly appreciated.
vickimac
Web Site PDF Link Emails XML File--Why?
2007-05-20 11:12:12
2007-06-07 16:30:15
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Further clarification; because that choice is a bit "buried"...
When you select an action for the button; the choice is "submit a form". When you first do that, one of the choices will be to submit as a PDF. However, if you go back to the button; now you will need to highlight submit a form and then select "edit" those properties to make sure you have submit as PDF selected.
And another thing. The email message that will be returned with the filled-out form seems to indicate that it's only data coming back. If you have done it correctly; it should be the entire form. So you will need to open it to check.
OK; try all of that and let us know if it fixes it....
C.
When you select an action for the button; the choice is "submit a form". When you first do that, one of the choices will be to submit as a PDF. However, if you go back to the button; now you will need to highlight submit a form and then select "edit" those properties to make sure you have submit as PDF selected.
And another thing. The email message that will be returned with the filled-out form seems to indicate that it's only data coming back. If you have done it correctly; it should be the entire form. So you will need to open it to check.
OK; try all of that and let us know if it fixes it....
C.
Hope this helps.
Carrie Makover
Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.