Adobe Acrobat 9 - forms and email submit button
I'm using Adobe Acrobat 9 to create a form. There's an "Email Submit" button. The form works fine with all it's fields... it's just that when I go to test it out I have a problem. When I click on the "Submit by Email" button, and choose to use my email client, my email opens with a new window and I see the form attaches itself to the email which is perfect. BUT, the format of the form is no longer "PDF", but instead "XML." I do not want this. Why is this? I want the PDF form to attach itself to the email as a PDF. I've been searching and can't figure out how to do this.
Actually, with Adobe Acrobat 9, (using the CS4 Suite) when you go to Edit it, it makes you open "Adobe Live Cycle Designer" to make edits. I don't see anything in this program to tell the form that when it attaches itself to an email to remain as a PDF. Do you?
Please help! Thank you.
Actually, with Adobe Acrobat 9, (using the CS4 Suite) when you go to Edit it, it makes you open "Adobe Live Cycle Designer" to make edits. I don't see anything in this program to tell the form that when it attaches itself to an email to remain as a PDF. Do you?
Please help! Thank you.
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So the average person might have a hard time understanding how to read the code in an XML file. Is there something I can do after the reciever gets the email with the attached XML file, that information can be viewed / imported into a file / or saved in a way (minus Acrobat 9) that the info. is more readable?
With Acrobat Pro .. you can import the XML back into the PDF to view the results .. or use the Adobe Live Cycle Designer to manage the results
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Do you have a working example you can show me, so I can see how this works please?
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Thank you. Above you mention "With Acrobat Pro .. you can import the XML back into the PDF to view the results .. or use the Adobe Live Cycle Designer to manage the results" I read this in one of the resource links you provided. Not sure what the benefit is for the owner of the form to retrieve the XML data and import it back into the blank form. Seems like extra work. Why would someone want to go to that trouble?
In any case... somehow I was able to choose "Add/Edit fields" in Adobe Pro 9 and with that enabled, I added a new submit button this way, and removed the submit button I created in Live Cycle Designer. Then when I hit Submit on the Preview Form, it attached itself to an email as a PDF. So that solved that problem, but i don't know why this one PDF I had showed the option to "Add/Edit fields" under the "Forms" menu, while other PDFs I created from Live Cycle Designer, opened them and under "Forms" that option did not appear. Thought maybe the PDF was locked or something, but I couldn't figure out how to unlock it.
Any thoughts on this? Thanks for providing the resource links above by the way. They're helpful.
In any case... somehow I was able to choose "Add/Edit fields" in Adobe Pro 9 and with that enabled, I added a new submit button this way, and removed the submit button I created in Live Cycle Designer. Then when I hit Submit on the Preview Form, it attached itself to an email as a PDF. So that solved that problem, but i don't know why this one PDF I had showed the option to "Add/Edit fields" under the "Forms" menu, while other PDFs I created from Live Cycle Designer, opened them and under "Forms" that option did not appear. Thought maybe the PDF was locked or something, but I couldn't figure out how to unlock it.
Any thoughts on this? Thanks for providing the resource links above by the way. They're helpful.
In order to SAVE changes to a PDF document the user would need to have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed which costs $$$.