Adobe Community: how to create online fillable form using acobrat 7.0 ?

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1. George Johnson,

Jun 13, 2012 9:31 AM in reply to helloflash123

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A data form can be Reader-enabled with Acrobat, which allows it to be saved with Reader, but this feature was first added to Acrobat with Acrobat 8 Pro.

If Reader-enable a form with Acrobat (8-10), you are limited to using no more than 500 instances of the form that has been returned to you IF you distribute the enabled form to more than 500 recipients.

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2. helloflash123,

Jun 13, 2012 10:20 AM in reply to George Johnson

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thanks for the info.

How my question is, how to create a fillable PDF document that I can place it on my website and when user clicks on the submit button, I receive the pdf in my mail as an attachment with the filled information.

Like I mentioned above, I know a way too add submit button using acrobat 7 designer but that is very complicated because the user will have to send xml data and i will have to import the xml data into the original pdf form which is very time consuming and not a good idea when i have to deal will 1000 forms every week.

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3. George Johnson,

Jun 13, 2012 10:25 AM in reply to helloflash123

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What I'm saying is for that to be possible, the form has to be Reader-enabled. When you do this, it allows Reader to save a filled-in form, which it normally cannot.

The problem for you is Acrobat 7 does not allow you to Reader-enable a form, so you'll have to upgrade if you want to do this.

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4. helloflash123,

Jun 13, 2012 10:37 AM in reply to George Johnson

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yes that I understood. but i am assuming that what you explained above is about giving the feature to the user of saving the filled information in a pdf form even when he/she is using reader. So by your advise when i upgrade the acrobat to upper version i will be able to give the saving functionality to the user even by using reader, am I correct ?

Submitting online information in a PDF form on click event of submit button is different from saving, am i right ? or no ? Please advise

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5. George Johnson,

Jun 13, 2012 10:50 AM in reply to helloflash123

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Yes to your first question. In order for the entire PDF form to be sent when a submit button is clicked, it needs to be saved. This happens automatically, so it is not a separate manual step that the user has to take. The only way Reader can save is of the document is Reader-enabled. So submitting the entire PDF form (as opposed to just the form data, which you said you don't want), either to a web server or via email, requires that the form be saved.

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6. helloflash123,

Jun 13, 2012 10:52 AM in reply to George Johnson

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thank you, i think i got it.

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7. helloflash123,

Jun 13, 2012 11:01 AM in reply to helloflash123

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if i download the acrobat x pro to try from here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=acrobat_pro&loc=a p

what's the limitation of using trial copy ? it says it offers full features, is it like for specific number of days ? If yes i can make use of acrobat x pro version to create fillable pdfs.

or trial version leaves watermark ior something ?

any thoughts ?

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8. George Johnson,

Jun 13, 2012 11:24 AM in reply to helloflash123

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It's fully functional for 30 days, not other restrictions.

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9. helloflash123,

Jun 13, 2012 12:21 PM in reply to George Johnson

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thanks

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10. helloflash123,

Jul 16, 2012 8:36 AM in reply to helloflash123

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So I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro X and when I open a PDF fillable document with textfields and checkboxes in Adobe LiveCycle Designer, I don;t see any option where I can select the option Reader-enabled ?

Please help

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11. George Johnson,

Jul 16, 2012 10:38 AM in reply to helloflash123

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LiveCycle Designer cannot Reader-enable a document. You have to use Acrobat (or LiveCycle Reader Extensions). In Acrobat 10, you select: File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Additional Features

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12. Bill@VT,

Jul 16, 2012 2:50 PM in reply to George Johnson

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For AA7, you can set the file to submit the data, not the entire form. You would have the FDF data file submitted to you. The e-mail feature is not very reliable, but that was not your question. When you receive the FDF file, you may be able to click it and have it open in the form (if you did not move the form and such -- it has some folder information in the FDF). Otherwise, you can open the form and use the form tools to import the data -- forgot where it is in AA7. The end result of the import will be the same display as the submitter had in the form. You can then save the form to a different name. There may be some data handling within Acrobat 7, I don't remember. If not, you might want to get the FDF Toolkit from Adobe and set up some data manipulation with the toolkit to put data in a database or such.

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