Submit button in Acrobat 9 Pro

I am using the Forms wizard in Acrobat 9 Pro. The recipients that have Acrobat Reader open the form and see a SUBMIT button on the purple ribbon. The users that have Pro do not get a SUBMIT button. How do we get the Pro users to see a SUBMIT button without having to create one?

I used the forms wizard and it created a button on the top. I am using Windows XP with Acrobat 9 Pro.

Similar Messages

Create a submit button on Acrobat X fillable application.

How do I put a submit button on an Acrobat X fillable application? This application should come back to me via email once it is filled out. Person should also be able to save the form for their files.

This video might help: http://goo.gl/TjOZZC
You might try with out the mailto in front but I believe in order for it to be sent to an e-mail address you need the mailto:
test this with a Friend. To see how it works.
As "Test Screen" recommends in a Post after mine, I don't endorse submitting to e-mail address. I'm just showing the method.
When I was Treasurer in an Electronics association. I used submit to e-mail address only I used FDF and the person using kept a Blank copy of the Form on his computer. And it worked well. But this was back before there were so many security risk involved

Problem using the e-mail button in Acrobat Pro 7.1.0 with Outlook 2013

I just switched my e-mail application from Mozilla Thunderbird to Outlook 2013.
I have always been able to click the e-mail button in Acrobat 7.1.0 to open a blank e-mail message with the PDF file attached.
I keep getting an error now that I have Outlook 2013.
It says "You need to create a Microsoft Outlook profile. In Microsoft Windows, go to the Control Panel and open Mail. Click Show Profiles, and then click Add"
Then, when I click on the OK button it says "Acrobat is unable to log in to your email application. Please check your account settings and try again."
I have checked and I have one profile in Control Panel called Outlook. Outlook is set as my default e-mail program.
I tried using a 3rd party PDF reader (Foxit Reader) and the e-mail button works as expected (opens a new message with the PDF attached).
I am running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit with Outlook 2013 32-bit (this was what was recommended by Microsoft on the Office download site).
I would appreciate help anyone can provide to fix this problem.
Thank you.

It may be a similar issue, but not the same issue. This is not the Reader forum, but if you are worried about the compatibility it is a simple matter to upgrade your Reader to AR XI. The original post had to do with a cost product, not the free Reader.
For AA7, the PDF Maker of AA7 is not compatible with Outlook 2013 as suggested. You should still be able to open most PDFs, but to create a PDF from Outlook you will have to print to the Adobe PDF printer or upgrade to AA XI.

Pressed download button for acrobat pro trial version and Assistant downloaded but Pro did not. Hlp

Pressed download button for trial version of Pro but could only download Assistant, which did not lead to downloading of Acrobat XI Pro. Repeated action and failed repeatedly. Any help for fast assured downloading. Should programs that are solicited automatically for downloading also be downloaded. Thanks for the help.

Use this method:
Direct Download Links for Adobe Software
Mylenium

Creating Buttons on Acrobat Pro 9 from PDF's Created from AutoCAD 2011

We have been trying to create buttons on PDF's that we have received from our architect but everytime we try and do so the software crashes. We are able to select the button tool and insert the button onto the page, but when we try and ammend the properties of the button i.e. make it into a link, the software hangs/crashes and doesn't do anything. The docuemnts we are using nare not protected in anyway and I can't understand why this function isn't working.

We have been trying to create buttons on PDF's that we have received from our architect but everytime we try and do so the software crashes. We are able to select the button tool and insert the button onto the page, but when we try and ammend the properties of the button i.e. make it into a link, the software hangs/crashes and doesn't do anything. The docuemnts we are using nare not protected in anyway and I can't understand why this function isn't working.

How Can I Create a Print Button on a PDF Using Acrobat Pro That Will Also Work on iOS?

I created a Print Button on a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat Pro on my Mac. The Print button works perfectly on different browsers on my Mac and on Windows (running under Parallels Desktop) as well.
When I open the document on my iPad the Print button doesn't even appear. I am guessing that this is a Flash issue but it may be more related to the fact the the action for the button is to access the Print menu item, which doesn't exist under iOS.
Is there any way to create a Print button using Acrobat Pro that will work on a Mac and Windows but also on iOS?

In order to initiate printing by clicking a button, the button has to have either an "execute menu item" type action or use the "print" JavaScript method. As you guessed, the former won't work since there are no menu items to execute, and the latter can only work if the particular PDF viewer you're using supports it. I'm not aware of any that do on iOS.
The button doesn't appear because you're probably opening it in the default PDF viewer, which doesn't support forms at all. If you were to open the form in Adobe Reader, you'd see the button but it wouldn't work.

Add Button in Acrobat 9 Pro to Livecycle Document.

Hello everyone,
I have a problem that I am beating my head up against. In my company we have some pdf documents that have been created using LiveCycle for our "go green paperless movement" but we have hit a snag. We have some "virtual printers" in use with our document management software that work just as normal networked printers but instead capture an image of the document being printed and run OCR on our documents for record keeping. Each pdf document has its own virtual printer to recognize appropriate OCR templates to use. Therefor we have many virutal pritners for our many documents. We love our LiveCycle documents but, when attempting to use javascript to print to a particular network printer we have found our complication. We do not want to map the printers using windows or train our employees on adding network printers to their profile as there are so many and each document is assigned to a virtual OCR printer, we want the document to have an embedded button that automatically prints to it's assigned virtual printer.
If I open a document and edit it with Acrobat 9 Pro, I can simply place a button field and add this java code:
var pp=this.getPrintParams();
pp.interactive=pp.constants.interactionLevel.automatic;
pp.printerName="\\\\TOSHIBABILLING2\\pcl6";
this.print(pp);
and the system prints to the network printer perfectly. Yet if I use that same javascript in LiveCycle we get nothing. Further reading I found some details specifying that I cannot use this same scripting to print to the network printer using LiveCycle and such am at a loss.
I have tried open the form in Acrobat 9 Pro to edit it and just add the button using Acrobat Pro, but each time I edit the document it opens LiveCycle as the designer.
I was not sure which forum to use as this problem has been found between working with both programs. Can someone help me to either modify the code for LiveCycle, or to at least find a way to open the document in Acrobat 9 Pro to just add the print button to the LiveCycle form. Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.
~ Max

I can't open the Form Tools though is what I'm saying. When I open the document in Acrobat 9 Pro I have no form tools.
I have to go to [Forms] -> [Edit Forms in Designer] in order to open the form tools.
Only when I select to open in designer I do not get the Acrobat Pro Designer, it automatically opens the document in LiveCycle and I have no option or ability to change the document designer to Acrobat Pro.
Is there some way I can "Force" the docement to open in Acrobat 9 Pro designer JUST so I can add the print button?

No submit button in distributed form - JavaScript help

I have creted a from in Live Cycle Designer. After distribution submit button is not visible in Acrobat and Reader. I've looked at the form JavaScript and find out this part of code which probably hide submit button in Acrobat 9:
showAutoGenSubmitBtn = function(bShow)
    var autoGenSubmitName = "%AUTO_GEN_SUBMIT_NAME%";
    var fld = this.getField(autoGenSubmitName);
    if (fld != null)
        var b= this.dirty;
        if (bShow)
            fld.display = display.noPrint;
        else
            fld.display = display.hidden;
        this.dirty= b;
// Hide the auto-generated submit button for Acrobat/Reader >= 9.0
if (app.viewerVersion >= 9)
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(false);
else
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(true);
I am not familair with JavaScript so I would apprecite if someone can help me how to edit it to make submit button visible.
Below is a complete JaveScrip of mentioned form.
Thanks
//@@FORMSWORKFLOW auto-generated script
AdobePatentID="B643"
var AdobePatentID = "AdobePatentID=\"B643\"";
// Show a dialog to ask the user's name and email during submit.
askUserIdentity = function(doc)
    // string constants
    var dlgStrings =
        sDlgTitle:          "Send Form",
        sEmailLabel:        "&Email Address:",
        sNameLabel:         "Full &Name:",
        sSubmitLabel:       "&Send",
        sToLabel:           "To:",
        sSubjectLabel:      "Subject:",
        sSubjectContent:    "Submitting Completed Form",
        sAttachmentLabel:   "Attachment:",
        sFromLabel:         "From:",
        sErrorEmailRequired:"Please enter a valid email address.",
        sErrorNameRequired: "Please enter your name."
    var dlgElems = [];
    dlgElems[dlgElems.length] = {
        type: "view",
        align_children: "align_left",
        elements:
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sToLabel,
                        width: 80,
                        bold: true,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        item_id: "sdto",
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sSubjectLabel,
                        bold: true,
                        width: 80,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sSubjectContent,
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sAttachmentLabel,
                        bold: true,
                        width: 80,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        item_id: "atch",
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sFromLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sEmailLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "edit_text",
                item_id: "emal",
                width: 250
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sNameLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "edit_text",
                item_id: "name",
                width: 250
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "ok_cancel",
                ok_name: dlgStrings.sSubmitLabel
    var desc = {
        resourceContext: "AcroForm",
        description: {
            name: dlgStrings.sDlgTitle,
            elements: [
                    type: "view",
                    align_children: "align_left",
                    elements: dlgElems
    desc.initialize = function(dialog)
        var METADATA_ANNOT_NAME = "adhocFormState";
        var PROP_INITIATOR = "initiator";
        var initiator;
        var annot = doc.getAnnot(0, METADATA_ANNOT_NAME);
        if (annot != null) {
            var arrProps = new Array();
            arrProps = annot.contents.split(";");
            initiator = getProperty(arrProps, PROP_INITIATOR);
        var decodedFileName = unescape(doc.documentFileName);
        var initVars =
            sdto: initiator,
            atch: decodedFileName
        dialog.load(initVars);
    desc.validate = function(dialog)
        var values = dialog.store();
        if (values.emal == "") {
            app.alert(dlgStrings.sErrorEmailRequired);
            return false;
        if (values.name == "") {
            app.alert(dlgStrings.sErrorNameRequired);
            return false;
        return true;
    desc.commit = function(dialog)
        this.result = new Object;
        var values = dialog.store();
        this.result.name = values.name;
        this.result.email = values.emal;
    var ret = app.execDialog(desc);
    if (ret == "ok")
        return desc.result;
    else
        return null;
askEmailClient = function(doc)
// string constants
    var dlgStrings =
        sDlgTitle:      "Select Email Client",
        sDlgText:       "Please indicate the option which best describes how you send mail.",
        sDesktop:       "&Desktop Email Application",
        sDesktopDesc:   "Choose this option if you currently use an email application such as Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, or Mail.",
        sInternet:      "&Internet Email",
        sInternetDesc: "Choose this option if you currently use an Internet email service such as Yahoo or Microsoft Hotmail. You will then need to save your form and return it manually to [email protected] using your Internet email service."
    var dlgElems = [];
    dlgElems[dlgElems.length] = {
        type: "view",
        align_children: "align_left",
        alignment: "align_fill",
        elements:
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sDlgText,
                width: 350,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "radio",
                name: dlgStrings.sDesktop,
                item_id: "rad1",
                group_id: "rgrp",
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_top",
                elements:
                        type: "gap",
                        width: 20
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sDesktopDesc,
                        wrap_name: true,
                        width: 342,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "radio",
                name: dlgStrings.sInternet,
                item_id: "rad2",
                group_id: "rgrp",
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_top",
                elements:
                        type: "gap",
                        width: 20
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sInternetDesc,
                        wrap_name: true,
                        width: 342,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "ok_cancel",
    var desc = {
        resourceContext: "AcroForm",
        description: {
            name: dlgStrings.sDlgTitle,
            width: 250,
            elements: [
                    type: "view",
                    align_children: "align_left",
                    elements: dlgElems
    desc.commit = function(dialog)
        this.result = new Object;
        var values = dialog.store();
        this.result.send = values.rad1;
        this.result.save = values.rad2;
    var ret = app.execDialog(desc);
    if (ret == "ok")
        return desc.result;
    else
        return null;
AdobePatentID="B643"
// set a new property value to a property in the specified array.
setProperty = function(arrProps, propName, propValue)
    var i;
    var bSet = false;
    for (i = 0; i < arrProps.length; i++) {
        var propParts = new Array();
        propParts = arrProps[i].split(":");
        if (propParts[0] == propName) {
            propParts[1] = propValue;
            arrProps[i] = propParts.join(":");
            bSet = true;
            break;
    if (!bSet)
        arrProps[arrProps.length] = propName + ":" + propValue;
AdobePatentID="B643"
// get the value for a property in the specified array.
getProperty = function(arrProps, propName)
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < arrProps.length; i++) {
        var propParts = new Array();
        propParts = arrProps[i].split(":");
        if (propParts[0] == propName) {
            return propParts[1];
    return null;
AdobePatentID="B643"
showAutoGenSubmitBtn = function(bShow)
    var autoGenSubmitName = "%AUTO_GEN_SUBMIT_NAME%";
    var fld = this.getField(autoGenSubmitName);
    if (fld != null)
        var b= this.dirty;
        if (bShow)
            fld.display = display.noPrint;
        else
            fld.display = display.hidden;
        this.dirty= b;
// Hide the auto-generated submit button for Acrobat/Reader >= 9.0
if (app.viewerVersion >= 9)
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(false);
else
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(true);

I'm distributing the form in Acrobat Pro 9.
I created the form in Live Cycle Designer. Save, then open in Acrobat pro. Extend Features to Acrobat Reader, click the drop down box on Forms and hit distribute. I save a local copy. When I open the distributed form the buttons do fall silent, the Submit Button on the purple line up top still works, but that doesn't appear in reader and the people who will be completing the form all use reader. Any suggestions for a fix?
I'd like to distribute because that automates the tracking. It works undistributed.

How do i add a submit button to a form

ho do i add a submit button to a form.

Hi;
If you are using the FormsCenral website to create a form it will have a submit button by default for the HTML (web) form and also by default it you are saving as PDF (there is an option to create a PDF without Submit, but by default it does submit to FormsCentral).
If you are using the FormsCentral desktop application that is bundled with Acrobat XI you would have to sign into the service to create forms with Submit buttons. You can also create a form without submit button in FormsCentral Desktop and then edit the form in Acrobat XI adding a submit button using your preferred submit method such as by email.
Let me know if you need more information on either of these, it will be easier to assist knowing more about what you are using.
Thanks,
Josh
PS - if this is a question about adding a submit button in Acrobat not related to FormsCentral your question would be best asked in http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat

How do I add a functional "submit button" to a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI ? I created the pdf form in Adobe Forms Central.

How do I add a functional "submit button" to a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI ? I created the pdf form in Adobe Forms Central. It's for an online Diet Questionnaire. After people complete the form I'd like them to click "SUBMIT" and the completed form will be emailed to me.

This can be a bit confusing because Acrobat 11 comes with the desktop app that allows you to create simple PDF forms without having a FormsCentral account. Some people find this helpful, but you need to understand that when you generate the PDF form, it is Reader-enabled by Acrobat. In order to edit the form further in Acrobat, you have to create a non-enabled copy of the form. You do this in Acrobat by opening the form and selecting: File > Save a Copy
and opening the copy. It is not opened automatically.
You can now add a button and set it up to submit by email, either using a "Submit a form" action or the submitForm JavaScript method. You can set it up to include just the form data or the entire PDF, and will want to use a mailto type URL. Submitting the form to the FormsCentral server has a number of important advantages over email (much more reliable, more secure, etc.), so you might want to consider it.
If the form needs to be saved with Reader versions prior to 11, then you will need to Reader-enable the document. In Acrobat 11 you do this by selecting: File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools

Adobe Acrobat X Pro - Javascript for submit button

Hi,
I am new to Adobe Acrobat X Pro and I have just designed a fillable form and enabled user rights for reader, for them to send the form back as a PDF. I created the form with a submit button and have mailto:[email protected] but I want to know if it is possible to create a button that will run a javascript to bring up a persons Mircosoft Outlook contacts, so they can choose who they want to send the completed form too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

See post #7 and #10 in the following topic: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/793083?tstart=0

Once you create a printable form in Acrobat Pro 9, how do you add a submit button?

I have created printable PDF forms, but don't know how to add a submit button so they can be filled out and emailed. Currently if the people filling them out only have Reader they can only be printed out. They cannot be saved, and they cannot be emailed. Can the submit functionality be added in Adobe Acrobat Pro, or do you have to do that with a third party software?

Yes, you can use the Extend Features in Adobe Reader, shown here but grayed out since I don't have a form open.
When you do that, the people filling out the form will be able to Save a copy of the form for themselves and to forward a copy of the PDF to you. You might want to make a copy of the form first if you might have to make changes in the future since the Extended form cannot be edited directly.

Http submit button not working in acrobat pro

I wanted submit data to website through http submit button. This button is only working PDF preview in LiveCycle Designer.
However, when I open in Acrobat X pro, it shows error "Invalid server response".
Would you tell me where is the problem? This button is working in LiveCycle Designer.
Strange!!!

Anyone has faced such problem? How can I solve it?

Submit Button Acrobat 9 Pro & Select Email Client Screen

I'm new to Acrobat and creating forms and need help. I've created a few forms for work using 8 Pro, which have been successful. I decided to purchase 9 Pro for home and use for our school's PTU membership drive.
I created a form using a Word doc and the Acrobat Form Wizard. It worked, I adjusted my fields, added a Submit button with mailto:[email protected] as the URL and want to distribute the form as "save and distribute later." This works. When I bring up the form for a test run, and submit to myself I get a pop up asking to Select Email Client - do I use Outlook (a few others are also listed) or Yahoo or Hotmail as my email servers. If I click Outlook, everything is fine, the document gets forwarded to me with no problem (because I use Outlook). My concern is for members who don't use Outlook (or the others). They have to go through more steps by saving the doc to their hard drive and emailing it to me as an attachment. I would really like to avoid extra steps for them.
It there a something I'm missing in setting up my Submit button so it automatically gets emailed to me irregardless as to what they are using for email server?
I have searched for 2 hours and have come up with nothing that I understand. If you respond, please remember to be clear as I'm not a techno person.
Thanks for ANY and ALL help you can provide.

You are running into some of the classic problems/concerns for new users with forms. I will try to summarize the issues related to your work:
1. You can create forms directly in Acrobat under the TOOLS menu using the form tools found there, or by selecting the options in the FORMS menu that generally take you to LiveCycle Designer. Questions on the forms should be put to the appropriate forum of these two, since the processing and menus are different.
2. Having the forms be allowed to be saved (necessary for submitting the full form and not just the data that can be imported to the form) requires Reader Rights to be activated for clients using Reader. This activation limits the form use to 500 uses (check section 15 of the EULA for more details) that could be a problem for you, depending on the school size. If you have the form data submitted and do not activate the Rights, then there is not a limitation. Simply import the XML or FDF file into the form when you get it.
3. The e-mail submission you have concerns about is valid. If you do not mind getting questions that it would not work on their machine, then fine. The e-mail submission will not work on all machines (PC , MAC, or UNIX). It depends on the client setup (you have no control), historically requiring MAPI to be active (typical of Outlook, but not other packages). In AA9/AR9 there appear to have been some extensions to this, but a lot of folks use version 9. In fact I have a different version that has come on every machine I have and do not have AA9 yet (AA4-AA8), with even older versions lying around some place. A few weeks ago someone checked in who was using AA4. Since I mentioned this problem, the solutions are:
a. live with it and ask folks who can not submit to copy the info into the body of an e-mail or such.
b. find someone who can add the proper scripts to a web server to receive the data. The school IT folks (if any) might be able to help there.
c. submit the data in HTML form through a cgi-mail or formmail server that is available on many ISP servers (you may have to ask). These servers require some hidden fields telling the server where to send the submitted form data.
Hope that helps. Bill

Submit button issue in Acrobat 9 Pro

I have created a form in acrobat 9 pro. I have added a submit button and set the action to mailto:(my email address). I have uploaded my form to my website but the submit button is not working. I have followed the instructions within your tutorials but apparently I'm missing something. You can view the form at this url: http://preservationkentucky.org/pdfs/2012SessionProposal-Gallery.pdf

Check this out: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2011/12/get-reader-or-acrobat-to-work-in-chrome-compact-pdf -output-from-chrome/

Submit button in Acrobat 9 Pro

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for