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3rd Party to Receive Data

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2007-07-06 11:52:48
MerlyD
Registered: Jul 6 2007
Posts: 2

A client wants me to take his existing PDF and convert it so his clients can fill it out online. As far as I know, Acrobat Pro 8 can do this. My question is does my client need Acrobat Pro 8 to receive the data sent once his clients complete the forms and e-mail the results to him? Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-07-07 06:12:23
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pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
There are several ways this can be accomplished. This suggestion is one of them.

Write a perl script to match the names of the form fields in the PDF.

Load the script in the clients CGI-BIN folder on his web site.

For the Submit button action, set the Export format to HTML and the URL to link to the perl script. Your client will have to access the CGI-BIN to retrieve the form data.

Depending on his service provider, an auto responder could be included that will send notification that the form was submitted.

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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