Working with PDF Form...

[spanznet]

installed and configured formmail.php very quickly and easily which was very impressive, but am now stuck trying to figure a way to get my Submit button in my pdf form to submit the pdf as an attachment to the email. Is this even possible?

[russellr]

Hi,

This is a question about the tool you've used to create the PDF form.

I think the question really is: how do you tell the Acrobat or the PDF form to submit itself as a file upload?

The answer to which, I don't know.

FormMail is targetted at HTML forms not PDF forms, so my knowledge of PDF forms is very limited.

[spanznet]

The tool i'm using to make the PDF Form is Adobe LifeCycle Designer. Once you define a button as a 'Submit' button, you then have a few format options: XML, XDP, PDF, and HTTP Post. I'm trying to use PDF which is the most convenient for us, but all I can enter is an URL to submit to. It mostly works, Formmail redirects me to my success page after its sent and i get an email but its empty with no pdf.

I'm thinking this might be possible if i assign some javascript to the submit button instead. I'll post back if i get it to work.

[webstar]

The tool i'm using to make the PDF Form is Adobe LifeCycle Designer. Once you define a button as a 'Submit' button, you then have a few format options: XML, XDP, PDF, and HTTP Post. I'm trying to use PDF which is the most convenient for us, but all I can enter is an URL to submit to. It mostly works, Formmail redirects me to my success page after its sent and i get an email but its empty with no pdf.

I'm thinking this might be possible if i assign some javascript to the submit button instead. I'll post back if i get it to work.


Have you ever gotten this to work?

[spanznet]

no i didnt. i wasted too many hours on it so i gave up deciding it wasnt possible. :(