I want to create a submit-by-email pdf form for my website.

[lauravincent3]

I want to create a submit-by-email pdf form for my website (very simple). Can I do that with PDX Xchange? Can anyone get me started in the right direction.

[Chris - PDF-XChange]

Hi Laura,

For clarification, you are wanting to have a existing PDF Form, that a user downloads, fills out and submits to you via email?


Chris

[lauravincent3]

Hi Chris,

I want to create a new form, something like this:

Name:_________________
Address:_______________
Phone:________________
etc.

The form will be a link on my website. They can click to open the form, answer the questions on line, then send it back to me via email. Is this possible?

Thanks, Laura

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi lauravincent3,

I think there is a little confusion around what you are describing because it seems to me that you are including in your explanation aspects of two very different functionalities. I'll go through two different scenarios and see if this clarifies things at all.

1) PDF 'fillable form' available for download from your web page by clicking a link.

• The user would download your form,

• User fills it out using our PDF-XChange Viewer or any other PDF Viewing software capable of handling forms.

• User emails completed form to you or uploads to your website using a file upload page on your site.

This is a fairly simple scenario and whilst PDF-XChange Viewer is not capable of creating a fillable form, Office2PDF is. You could create a "WebForm" in Microsoft Office and use our integrated tools that come with PDF-XChange Standard and Pro to create that form. Then it is a simple matter of putting this form on your website. This differs from your original description only in that users are not doing this 'online' but on their PC with a PDF reader tool.

2) A server side application where a PDF document is used to fill out a form online, then the values of that form are sent to their server. This is a far more complex thing to do. If you want online forms I would suggest it easier to use HTML Forms and a suitable server side application.

I hope i have not confused the issue with too much detail but in a nutshell I'd suggest you create a form using Word (2003 - not 2007 I am afraid as MS broke this !) and convert that to a fillable PDF using the Office Addin that comes with PDF-XChange Standard or Pro.

hope that helps