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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO
Forms
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Double-click the button to open the Button Properties dialog box.
Click the Actions tab, and select Mouse Up from the Select Trigger menu.
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Select Submit A Form from the Select Action menu, and then click Add.
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In the Submit Form Selections dialog box, type an entry in Enter A URL For This Link:
• To send the form data to a web server, enter the destination URL.
• To send the form data to an email address, enter mailto: followed by the email address. For example, type
mailto:nobody@adobe.com.
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Make additional changes to the available options, and then click OK to close the dialog box.
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Change settings on other tabs in the Button Properties dialog box as needed, and then click Close.
Submit Form Selections options
Exports as an FDF file. You can select one or more of the available options: user-entered data, comments, and
FDF
incremental changes to the PDF file. The Incremental Changes To The PDF option is useful for exporting a digital
signature in a way a server can easily read and reconstruct.
Note: If the server returns data to the user in FDF or XFDF format, the server's URL must end with the #FDF suffix—for
example, http://myserver/cgi-bin/myscript#FDF.
Exports as an HTML file.
HTML
Exports as an XML file. You can choose to export the form fields data, comments, or both.
XFDF
PDF The Complete Document
FDF option, it is useful for preserving digital signatures.
Note: If the users that fill in the PDF form are using Adobe Reader, you must choose either FDF or XFDF for the Export
Format option.
Exports all form fields even if the form fields do not contain values.
All Fields
Exports only the form fields you specify by clicking Select Fields and indicating which form fields to
Only These
include and whether you want to include empty fields.
Convert Date To Standard Format
Add a Reset Form button
A Reset Form button clears any data a user has already entered in the form. It is like the Forms > Clear Form feature,
which is available to you when you create and edit Acrobat forms. However, you can set up your reset button so that
it clears only specific fields.
Select Forms > Add Or Edit Fields, then select the Button tool from the Add New Field list, and create a button.
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Double-click the button to open the Button Properties dialog box.
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Click the Actions tab, and select Mouse Up from the Select Trigger menu.
Select Reset A Form from the Select Action menu, and then click Add.
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In the Reset A Form dialog box, do one of the following and then click OK:
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• Click individual check boxes to select or deselect the fields that you want to be reset by the button.
• Select All.
The list in the Actions tab now shows Reset A Form nested under the Mouse Up action.
Exports the entire PDF file that is your form. Although this creates a larger file than the
Exports all form dates in a single format, regardless of how they are entered in the form.
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