E-mail pdf Form with data in form

You can only email the filled in form if it is either filled in Professional or it is "Reader Enabled" (which you can do from Arobat Pro).

You can 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

Now your submit button will send an email with the entire PDF attached.

Thom,

Thank you so much for the hint to switch the "xml" to "pdf". It works!

However, I am stuck on finding instructions on how to perform the "Reader Enabled" to my forms through Acrobat Professional.

I did a forum search - and web search. The only responses I found were on commenting/reviewing on a pdf, not filling out the form and saving it for later use.

I look forward to your response.
Thank you again Thom.
Gotmerit55 (Meredith)

I'm looking for a place to make the same change in Designer 7.
Thought I had it- but no....
Any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks

I think that you are the ABSOLUTE best helper here. "THOMP" Thank you so much for the answer to this problem. we have been searching for months and my husband finally stumbled on to your post. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.. so much. It worked like a charm!!!

Thank you fantasticHelp,
I'd forgotten to subscribe to this thread so I never got the replies. I just ran across this by accident today.

As for Reader Enabling for Save. This feature wasn't added to Acrobat Professional until version 8. So unfortunately for the previous two posters, they would not have been able to do it unless they upgraded. But for anyone who sees this it's on the Advanced menu

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

THOMP
When I replace the "xml" with "pdf" the button stops working at all. It does nothing. I am posting this form on a web site. When I revert back to "xml" it works fine (except sends in .xml format). any ideas? I will appreciate any suggestions.

Modifying the XML is always tricky. I would suggest a different approach. Add a regular button to your form and on the Object tab, select "Submit" as the action. Then on the submit tab select PDF as the submission format. This way you get the PDF submit and don't have to worry about the underlying XML structure.

If it still does not work then something else is going on.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

hi sir i am sugumar i want know about xml tags and its meanings. send pdf form with xml tags

sugumar, you'll need to do some reading. Take a look at this:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/xml/topic.php

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

I am creating a pdf booklet. Within the booklet, I would like to create form that can be emailed back to me. Is there a way to email the form page from the pdf without emailing the whole booklet? If so, how do I do it?

Thanks!

From Reader, there is no way to separate out one or more pages from a document. So you'll need to make the form page a separate PDF in order to send it. You could make in an attachment to the Booklet.

If you know something about scripting you could write some code that would fill out and send the form attachment from the booklet. So the user would never have to leave the booklet to see and fill out the form. To implement this strategy the form page would be both in the booklet and also as a separate PDF attachment. The submit button on the form page in the booklet runs the script to copy data to the attached form and email it.


Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]