How to submit PDF form from web

[AvGuy]

I have created a fill-in form that I want to deploy to a website. I want people to fill out the form and then submit it to me by email. I really don't care whether it's the entire form or just the information on the form.

Please, someone point me in the right direction so I don't spend hours and hours trying to navigate through Acrobat's help mess.

Avguy

 

[tgreer]

You simply set the action of the button to submit to your email address. Or, you can submit back to a server app that emails the results to you.

There are a couple of PDF Form related articles on my site that might assist.



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

[AvGuy]

Thanks Tom - I just might be able to handle that after all.

AvGuy

 

[AvGuy]

Sorry, Tom that didn't work. If you specify an EMail address in the "Submit To" block you get an error because Acrobat can't connect to the http:// URL - it doesn't work with EMail addresses; only http URL's. As for submitting it to a server app for mailing back, I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about there.
AvGuy

 

[tgreer]

For the server-based workflow, you would use any standard web development language. I prefer PHP. You can use ASP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, whatever!

The PDF would submit the form, as an FDF or in standard HTML format, back to the web server, to a particular page written to process the form.

That page would gather the data, and email it to you. That is standard web development and is pretty simple.

I thought PDF would submit to a mailto: URL, perhaps I'm wrong. I'll research and post back what I find.

You wouldn't use "

http://info@tgreer.com",

you'd use "mailto:info@tgreer.com". I'll explore this a bit.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting