How to Add a submit button to a form in Adobe's Acrobat Reader
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1. Introduction
How to Add a submit button to a form in Adobe's Acrobat Reader
2. Add a submit button to a form
When you distribute a form, Acrobat automatically checks the form. If it doesn’t find a submit button, it adds a Submit Form button to the document message bar. Users can click the Submit Form button to send completed forms back to you. If you don’t plan to use the Submit Form button created by Acrobat, you can add a custom submit button to your form.
If you are not in form editing mode, choose Tools > Prepare Form.
Using the Button tool
, drag across the area where you want the button to appear. Double-click the button and set options in the General and Options tabs.
In the Options tab, choose an option in the Layout menu for the button label, icon image, or both. Do one or both of the following:
Type text in the Label box to identify the button as a submit button.
Click Choose Icon and either type the path to an image file or click Browse and locate the image file you want to use.
In the Actions tab, choose to Submit A Form in the Select Action menu, and then click Add.
In the Submit Form Selections dialog box, do one of the following:
To collect form data on a server, type the location in the Enter a URL for this link box. For example, http://www.[domain]/[folder]/[subfolder]/ for an Internet address or \\[server]\[folder]\[subfolder]\ for a location on a local network.
To collect form data as attachments to email, type mailto: followed by the email address. For example, mailto:nobody@adobe.com
Select options for Export Format, Field Selection, and Date Options, and click OK.
Click Close.
To preview and test the button, click Preview at the right-end of the toolbar. Once you are done, you can either click Edit to return to the Prepare Form tool, or click the cross icon at the right-end of the toolbar to close the tool.
If the data returns in FDF or XFDF format, the server URL must end with the #FDF suffix—for example, http://myserver/cgi-bin/myscript#FDF.
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