Adobe Acrobat 8 3D - Manual (Page 213)

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User Guide
Your default email application displays a new email message with the To, Subject, Body, and Attachment fields
automatically filled in.
3 Send the email.
Email a form using a web service
When you click an email-based submit button in a PDF form, you have the option to submit the form data with a
web-based email service.
1 Click the submit or return form button on the PDF form.
2 In the Select Email Client dialog box, select Internet Email; then click OK.
3 Click Save PDF File or Save Data File, specify a location for the file, and click Save.
4 Log in to your web-based email service, and create a new, blank email message.
5 In the Sending The PDF File dialog box in Acrobat, copy the text in the To box.
6 In the blank email message, paste the copied text into the To box. Repeat the process for the Subject and Message
Text boxes.
7 Attach the file that you saved to the email message.
Submit a PDF form at a later time
When you click an email-based submit button in a PDF form, you have the option of not submitting the form data,
but instead saving it on your computer to send at a later time.
1 Click the submit or return form button on the PDF form.
2 In the Select Email Client dialog box, select Other, and then click OK.
3 Click Save PDF File or Save Data File, specify a location for the file, and click Save.
4 Write down the values that appear in the To, Subject, and Message Text boxes so you’ll have them when you’re
ready to email the form data.
5 To email the form data, create a new message in your email application. Enter the To, Subject, and Message Text
values that you wrote down, attach the data file that you saved, and send the email.
Planning a PDF form
Options for creating PDF forms
There are many approaches to creating PDF forms. If you have existing paper forms, you can convert them to PDF
in various ways, depending on their current format. If you have noninteractive PDF forms, you can transform them
into interactive PDF forms that can be filled in and submitted electronically through a network or Internet
connection.
Using LiveCycle Designer (included with Adobe Acrobat Professional for Windows), you can also create entirely new
PDF forms from blank pages or from designer-created templates.
Paper forms Using a scanner, you can convert a paper form to PDF and use the forms tools to create interactive form
fields in the same page locations as on the paper form.