Submit by Email AS a PDF (urgent - time crunch)

I'm creating a form to be distributed externally to clients via email. I'd like them to be able to fill in the form, then click Submit by Email and have a completed PDF sent back to me (which we save in clients files for our records in an attempt at paperlessness). I've got the Submit by Email button in my form now, but apparently the default submission format is XML not PDF. Is there a way to change this?
Thanks - Sat

Paul,
Appreciating your explanations.
I never knew that we could submit our form in these many ways.
Your examples are informative and very useful to me.
I have another question: Can we close the pdf after submitting the form to an email address??
I mean, a user fills-in a User Acceptance Form and clicking on submit button. This should trigger an email (internally) and the form should close.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Nith

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Don't use the regular "'submit by email button." If you use this button, you can only submit the data as XML. Instead, make your own button.
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Though an encrypted PDF (i.e. one with security settings) does nothing to protect your data in transit. The PDF can still be opened by anyone who intercepts the mail.
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Hi and thanks again for trying to help.
Definitely works ok from pc.
Have deleted and re-established account a few times now but still the same.
I have actually given up and added gmail account which is working fine.
Sends and receives no problem.
Bloody bigpond....
We are not remote at all. Sitting in the fantastic Pavilion Hotel in Phnom Penh. Another couple here having trouble but not bigpond. Hotel staff have tried to help but to no avail.
Giving up and stick with gmail until we get home then start trying to get resolution.
Problem actually existed on a personal wi fi network in Melbourne before we left so I should have tried to resolve it then.
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R

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I created a form with "submit by email" button. When I click on the button it opens into my email just fine, but the email address is listed twice. I checked the object information and the address is only entered once. Can anyone help?

Before you go too far on the on e-mail submission, what is the purpose of the form in terms of distribution and are you having the PDF or the data submitted. The PDF is an issue, as is e-mail submission itself. They both have problems and more information is needed before you bother with completing what you are trying to do.
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Hi Rochelle,
The forums are here to help all those in need, but Daniel has a point - this specific question has been posed countless times, and a search would have revealed that. None the less, I hope you find this helpful:
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Hi there,
First time posting. Thanks to everyone who is so amazing at answering questions here. I've learned alot.
I have a form created with Live Cycle Designer ES4. I have enabled reader rights by doing "Save as other" in Acrobat Pro.
The "Submit by Email" function is setup to send the "complete PDF" as an attachment. It works GREAT on a PC - perfect actually! I get that popup box asking if I want to use my 'default email application' or 'webmail'.
On a MAC however, that same button does nothing when pressed. I have made sure I am using the latest version of Adobe Reader on the mac and that I am not viewing the form through preview or any other app.
Does anyone have any advice as to how I can get this working on a MAC?
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It’s a wonder you could understand what I meant and glad you got it figured out here is an improved version of what I tried to say: (May help others struggling with same issue.
Sorry No advice. You can't, because Adobe it its shortsightedness hasn't built in XML based PDF support into the Mac Version. And probably never will. Adobe after 20-25 years still considers Macs as toys not really meant for serious work. Despite the fact, were it not for Mac users, And Adobe writing products for Mac first, they would still amount to a Font House today. For two years or more they wrote exclusively for Mac until PC's accepted them, after Mac Users worked the bugs out. Then we were all but abandoned.
We can read XML based PDF's, but can do nothing with them . What we can do, is re-save them which converts them to Plain PDF's. Then go to Forms Manager, and setup the form which will work on all Platforms.
So what you need to do is if you want your audience to include Mac users as well is avoid Lifecycle created forms and don't use any XML Based PDF Form . Create regular PDF forms and will it work on any platform.

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i have had this problem too. it looks like you are getting the xml data file because the pdf opens as read only in acrobat reader and cannot be saved. one thing that solved the problem for me was to open the file in acrobat pro and use the distribute form wizard. this may just be a roundabout way of doing the reader extension paul mentioned, but in my case it worked.
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I have created a form fillable pdf with a Submit by Email button. The problem I am having is that some people I send this to fill out the form, click on the Submit by Email button and nothing happens. It doesn't work at all. Others have no problem with it working. Have you experienced this problem, or can you offer any suggestions how to correct this? I really need for this to work 100% of the time, or I will just need to remove this feature. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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I have created a fillable form using LiveCycle Designer 8.0. I need to be able to allow users to submit the filled out form as pdf via email (using Outlook-all users uave Outlook on their stations). I've adjusted the button properties (using button, not email submit button), adjusted the xml code (to submit as pdf instead of xml), etc. I may have done too much or adjusted things so that they negate each other. I am able to get the process to work fine using Acrobat 8.0 Pro, but the button does nothing when using Adobe Reader XI.
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