Can't find a straight answer to this. If I create a form in PDF, can users fill out that form, then save and send it back to me if they just have Acrobat Reader?
So according the the URL above, this facility can be given to users of Acrobat Reader 8 or higher but it won't work for previous versions of Adobe!?
rocknbil
4:33 pm on Aug 3, 2010 (gmt 0)
This is a historical problem with Acrobat, goes way back. To do this you **used** to have to have an enterprise (or professional?) version of Acrobat, and every user that would read the saved PDF's would have to have a copy, requiring a multi user license. Very spendy.
You can, however, use Standard to create form controls and submit the data to a URL. As mentioned above, some of that may have changed. I think the world has moved on to more cooperative tools for collecting form data.
badbadmonkey
4:46 pm on Aug 3, 2010 (gmt 0)
My understanding is that Adobe Reader can, since I don't know what version, submit completed forms. You need a submit button or whatever, and it e-mails the data. It does this by opening the e-mail client with a new message to your specified address with the data file attached. The recipient can then plug this into the original file to see the data. A bad joke of a database client if you ask me and a horrible submission mechanism. Better to set something up on your website if you're dependent on the internet for returns anyway.
The link above says you can give Reader 8 + the right to save the PDF with the completed form fields. I'm fairly sure this is a distinct function to just returning the data.
Suggest you test it if important.
piatkow
5:11 pm on Aug 4, 2010 (gmt 0)
OF course you can't guarantee which version your visitor has.
