Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional - Manual (Page 223)

Making Adobe PDF forms web-ready
PDF forms can be useful for submitting and collecting information over the web. This is
done by providing several button actions that perform functions similar to some HTML
scripting macros. You must have a CGI application on the web server to collect and route
the data to a database. Any existing CGI application that collects data from forms (in
HTML, FDF, or XML format) can be used. (See http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/
forms.jsp.)
Before you make your forms web-ready, make sure that your form-field names match
those set in the CGI application.
Important: CGI scripts must be built outside Acrobat, and their creation is not covered by
the Adobe Acrobat product.
Related Subtopics:
Creating Acrobat submit buttons
Creating Reset Form buttons
Creating Import Data buttons
Defining CGI export values