There are two primary submit types: Email
and URL submit. If you want the form data to be submitted to a URL or
email address, you should create a submit button first inside PDF
document. If you submit data to a URL, be aware that you need
server-side programming to collect and route data, see details
here. If you
don't have a server programming experience, you can choose the
option to submit PDF form data by Email.
Please make sure that both you and your
client has the free Adobe Reader XI before you read the following steps:
Here are 7 steps on How to Submit PDF Form Data (FDF) by Email using PDFill PDF Form
Maker:
Step 1: Read your PDF into PDFill PDF Editor
Step 2: Add New PDF Form Fields
Step
3:
Add a Push Button Form Field with Email Submit
Step 3.1: Create a Push
Button Form Field
Step 3.2: Select "Actions"
Tab and Add a new Action
Step 3.3: Select Submit
Form Action,
Trigger and "Email Form Data"
Step 4:
Save all Editing into a new PDF with Email Submit Button
Step
5: Distribute
your new
PDF Form
Step
6: Your Client clicks "Submit Button" to
Submit by Email Application or Webmail
Step 7: Process FDF Data on the Receiver's Side
Step
1: Read your PDF into PDFill PDF Editor
- click the icon of "PDFill PDF Editor"
from your desktop to start PDFill
PDF Editor. You will see a screen like this:
- To open
a PDF file, select Menu
File >
New Project to Open PDF. Or, click
from
Toolbar. Then, a File Selection Dialog comes up. Select
your
PDF file. Please wait a few second until all PDF pages are read
into PDFill.
Step
2:
Add New PDF Form Fields
You should
now see your beautifully designed PDF opened inside PDFill PDF Editor with a
Forms Toolbar that looks
alike the following images:
This
toolbar is where you provide interactivity to your static PDF. To create a
form field, just click one of the Form Field Tool. Select the type you desire it to be: Text, Check
Box, Radio Button, Combo Box, List Box, and Push Button.
See details in
How to Convert an Adobe PDF to a Fillable and
Savable Form by PDFill PDF Form Maker
Step
3:
Add a Push Button Form Field with Email Submit
Step 3.1: Create a
new
Push
Button Form Field
- First, click
Push Button
Tool
in the
Forms
Toolbar.
- Then, hold Left mouse button
to create a form field of the required size.
- Finally, the new form field
properties dialog comes up to set the new form field's
properties.
Step 3.2: Select
"Actions" Tab and Add a new Action
From New Push Button Field properties, click the
Actions Tab and then click the Add Button.
Step 3.3: Select Submit
Form Action,
Trigger and "Email Form Data"
- Select
an Action: "Submit a Form"
- Select a Trigger: "Mouse Up".
"Mouse
Up" is the preferred trigger type for Push Button
Form Field.
-
Select a Link Type: "Email Form Data".
Enter a mail to link like this:
mailto:test@yourmail.com?subject=My
Subject&body=Here is my form data.
Step 4:
Save all Editing into a new PDF with Email Submit Button
The "Save PDF Options" Dialog will come up. All the PDF Editing will be
saved directly into the original PDF with options:
Output Options,
Description,
Encrypt/Decrypt,
Initial View,
and
Presentation Effect.
You can click each Tab to see the content.
If you just begin to use PDFill PDF Editor,
use the default
options and click "Save PDF as ...".
Please
don't put space inside the PDF file name.
Adobe Reader will have problem to read the FDF data
into your PDF file.
- You must
save editing into a project file (PFL) so that you can resume
editing later.
To save this project, select
Menu
File >
Save Project or click
 from Toolbar.
Step
5:
Distribute
your new
PDF Form
The final PDF with Email Submit Button is
Fillable and Savable with
Adobe Reader XI. You have two options:
- Put your PDF Form under a
website and email your clients the link.
- Email the entire PDF Form
to your clients.
It is best to test
your PDF form under your web site
to avoid "Html/text" error or "Unable
to locate the form" error.
You can put your PDF under a
website using FTP like this example:
https://www.pdfill.com/example/pdf_form_maker_new.pdf
Step
6: Your Client clicks "Submit Button" to
Submit by Email Application or Webmail
You client must have Adobe Reader XI or
later installed. If he has problem to submit, please
uninstall all the versions of Adobe Reader from Control
Panel, then install the latest
Adobe Reader.
You con configure the Email Account from
Adobe Reader => Preferences => Email
Accounts => Add Account.
Your client can view your PDF Form
inside IE browser directly, or download it to a local
folder from his Email account and then open it by Adobe
Reader. Then, he clicks the "Email Form Data" inside
Adobe Reader. He will see this "Send Email" dialog.
If he select "Default Email
Application", he should see the email window like this:
If he selects "Use Webmail", and select
"Add Gmail", he should see a window like this:
Enter the gmail account name and
then password, the Gmail will be launched with
receiver's email, subject and FDF attachments.
Step 7: Process FDF Data on the Receiver's Side
After you receive the email with FDF
Data from your client,
save that FDF into a folder for
your client. You may have to
rename that FDF using your
client name. You can print the PDF form
filled by your client in any time in the following way:
If this FDF Data was created when your client
clicked your ONLINE PDF Form, you can click this FDF to launch your online PDF Form with filled data from
this FDF.
If this FDF Data was created when your client
clicked a LOCAL PDF Form, which was
downloaded from his email client or a website, his FDF
file will not point to any local PDF Form. You will see this warning message (Adobe Acrobat
Professional also has the same problem):
To avoid this warning, there are
three solutions:
-
Click your
original PDF first and it will be opened inside
Adobe Reader, then, click your FDF file second. The
data inside FDF will be filled into the already
opened
PDF.
-
Put the original
PDF and your FDF in the same folder. When the
warning message comes up, click "Yes" and select
your original PDF. The original PDF will be opened
with the new data from your FDF file.
-
Open your original PDF inside
PDFill PDF Editor, use
importing form data function to import FDF data
from your FDF file. Then, save into a new PDF. You
can also use
PDF Batch command to Import FDF into a PDF
form.
FDF is just a text file, you can open it
with WordPad to see the difference. You can right click
and select to open it with WordPad.
If you cannot open FDF file, please
reinstall Adobe Reader and
restart your computer so that
Adobe Reader is the default
viewer for FDF and PDF.
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