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You can create forms with Acrobat Pro that both email a user and submit data to a database. &nbsp;But if the user is going to a web page to get the PDF anyway, why not use a regular web form?
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You can create forms with Acrobat Pro that both email a user and submit data to a database.  But if the user is going to a web page to get the PDF anyway, why not use a regular web form?

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I think they want to collect both online &quot;paper and pencil&quot; forms and if we put the paper one online, it will have the same look. &nbsp;If I recreate this form and put it online, it will have a different look. &nbsp;However, if I recreate this form online, is there a way to collect data?
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I think they want to collect both online "paper and pencil" forms and if we put the paper one online, it will have the same look.  If I recreate this form and put it online, it will have a different look.  However, if I recreate this form online, is there a way to collect data?

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Client wants me to take a pdf document and make it so people can fill out online. &nbsp;She also wants some sort of reporting for the results of this online application. &nbsp;Is that something that can be done with Adobe Acrobat Pro or is there another program that I would need to use?<br />

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Client wants me to take a pdf document and make it so people can fill out online.  She also wants some sort of reporting for the results of this online application.  Is that something that can be done with Adobe Acrobat Pro or is there another program that I would need to use?


online applications with reporting features

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Adobe Reader), Acrobat (formerly Acrobat Exchange) and Acrobat.com. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and OS X only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files.

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