Interactive form

Anybody have any suggestions on creating an interactive form? I’m trying to create a type of order form that can be emailed, filled out, and then sent back to me. At the moment I’m not getting it to work the way I’d like it to.

I created a page in Publisher and converted it to a pdf. I brought it into Acrobat (5) and set the areas up with the forms tool and saved it. Everything works fine at this stage. The bad part is, once you fill it out the entries won’t save unless you use “print to pdf”. I going to guess there’s a lot of people without that option and may not download a pdf creator to be able to.

The only other way that I’ve thought might make this possible is to create a page on my website using forms and let them submit it back thru email. I’d have to try to figure that all out as I know enough html to be dangerous.

Is there something I’m missing somewhere? Thanks for any help and suggestions.

You could create the web form using this
http://www.jotform.com​/

Why not use a simple html FORM, then POST it to the FormMail cgi script that almost all web hosts use to email the completed form back to you?

TJ

I'll look into these, thank you both.

Also try machforms from appnitro. super easy!

Thank you for the help and suggestions. I think I've finally got it to work with the pdf I created. I found a way in Acrobat for a submit button which will email it back. It's still a little clunky to use, but it will serve the purpose.

Special thanks to TJ - I'll keep your pm.

Acrobat has the forms feature. It will save if you distribute it via the distribute tool in Acrobat. Don't use the email option. Works for me.

cory1848 wrote in post #11605320
Acrobat has the forms feature. It will save if you distribute it via the distribute tool in Acrobat. Don't use the email option. Works for me.

I don't have the distribute tool in Acrobat . I'm using v5 and it looks like time to upgrade. If I've read right, starting with v8 you can set pdf options that will allow a user to fill out the form and save the changes in Adobe Reader a little easier.

I got the email option to work, but I had to set it up to send back as a fdf. I then have to import it into the interactive pdf. Clunky at best, but it seems to work.

I can't upgrade from Acrobat5 to AcrobatX, so will probably look at finding Acrobat9 for a little less money.

D Thompson wrote in post #11607985
I don't have the distribute tool in Acrobat . I'm using v5 and it looks like time to upgrade. If I've read right, starting with v8 you can set pdf options that will allow a user to fill out the form and save the changes in Adobe Reader a little easier.

I got the email option to work, but I had to set it up to send back as a fdf. I then have to import it into the interactive pdf. Clunky at best, but it seems to work.

I can't upgrade from Acrobat5 to AcrobatX, so will probably look at finding Acrobat9 for a little less money.

Ah ok, sorry I missed that. Yea, unfortunately, time to upgrade if you want to use Acrobat for that.

cory1848 wrote in post #11610364
Ah ok, sorry I missed that. Yea, unfortunately, time to upgrade if you want to use Acrobat for that.

I don't really need vX, so I've been searching around for a legit copy of Acrobat Pro 9 which should run a lot cheaper. I've seen several online retailers (thru Pricegrabber and Reseller Ratings) with decent prices, just haven't found one that I really trust yet.