Submit Buttons

I am trying to make a pdf doc that is in my web folder submit its completed form to my email. This doc has a Submit button that I added in Acrobat 4.0. My URL is [email removed] but the form won't go or even be attached in an email. What am I missing in setting up this form, because I want to do more and have tried attaching the submit button to a converted pdf form and I get an error message.

Hi,

I have removed your email address to prevent spam.

Cheers,

Ross

Could you explain what you want to do a little more? Tis all a bit hazy for me.

I took a pdf doc and turned it into a form by inserting fields into the blanks so it could be completed online and emailed to us. At the bottom of the form I added the "Submit" and "Reset" buttons while working in Acrobat 4.0. In the URL box I put the company email address w/o any prefix (http://www.) But the form will not go anywhere when I try to submit it online. I did import this file into my web folder and my web is constructed in FP2003. Is FP2003 able to email a pdf doc from Acrobat's Submit button? I know they have their own forms construction, but I was trying to avoid all that reconstruction by converting my forms into pdf docs.
I hope this helps.

I have dealt with Acrobat forms before ... made a few of them ... but I don't remember there being a "submit" button that you could before and so ... I'm not that this will work. But like I said, I don't have that much experience with them.

Acrobat 4.0 has that submit option that asks you for the URL and the action box to set it. If FP2003 has a conversion capability in which you could convert your docs into a forms format, that would be great, too. But I haven't seen that option in in the Help menu.

I doubt such a thing exists ... the convert docs to html forms that is.

How long is the form? Even though, you'll need to use a server-side language (like PHP, .NET or Perl) for the form to send the info to an email.

So there is not a way for the doc itself to be completed online and sent as an attachment to an email from the web site?

Perhaps the PHP PDF functions might help you. A submit button in a PDF seems a bit odd to me, though.

Someone recommended JMail, so I will look into that. I'm trying to work up an online contracting packet for agents to be able to fill out and submit their paperwork to us. I need something that is not too time consuming, as I have all the forms developed for hard copy submission. I'm trying to get us into the 21st century with this capability, but my web site savy is not up to the web master level. That's why I appreciate these forums so much. Thanks for all your input.

Okay, well 21st century is PHP, XHTML and Ajax. Leave PDF's out of it. You're definitely going at this the wrong way so far as I see it.

Yeah, I am with Ryan on this topic. Why not just make a PHP form. It would be so much easier and professional. I always hate it when I am browsing the internet and a PDF opens in my browser...but that is just me.

maybe I'm completly wrong but shouldn't it be mailto:// and not http://

just mailto:yourname@yourwebsite.com no slashes. But I agree with everyone else a proper php from would be best and even I can do them and I know nothing about server side coding. It's very do-able. But don't bother with the pdf thing.

Pete.

Nope definitely don't do a PDF form...people always hate them, and you can find simple pre-built PHP forms, or build on yourself...they are not all that hard to do.