Acrobat 7 vs Designer 7

Hello,
i created my first form (survey) in Adobe Designer 7.0.
There are some dynamic forms in the survey so my website visitors will need
to download Acrobat Reader 7.0 to fill in the survey.
Now I inserted an image of acrobat reader in my form on which I would like
to make a link to the acrobat download page.
I've got 3 questions:
1. How can I make a link on an image to another website. I just can't find
anything about it. I can't imagine that such a simple feature isn't possible
in Designer.
2. I think I can also make forms directly in Acrobat Professional 7.0. I
read that if it is designed in Acrobat 7 then visitors can use any version
of acrobat reader to fill in the form. But when I click "make new form" in
Acrobat 7 then the software automatically opens Designer. Can I avoid that
in any way; so that I can design forms in Acrobat Prof 7 instead of Designer
(without erasing Designer of my pc of course).
3. Is it correct that forms made with Designer can only be viewed and filled
in with acrobat reader 6 and 7 and not with older versions of acrobat
reader? What if I don't use dynamic items in my forms? Will they be able to
use any acrobat reader version to fill in Designer forms?
I need these answers urgently. So many thanks for your kind help.
Many regards
Tuur

Actually i have the same problem, imported a normal pdf-file
with a lot of metadata, create the form and all metadata
were gone...
Adobe Designer is able to work with XMP, just have a look at
the XML Source of the form. There you can see that Designer
captures all PDF metadata. All XMP metadata that Designer
adds to the PDF form is stored at the end of the XML
structure, all additions will be ignored.
But there are two ways to get your metadata back:
- add it manually through windows explorer pdf file
properties dialog
or
- export a xmp file out of the original pdf and import it to
the pdf form with help of Adobe Bridge
Very crazy, i think Adobe should fix this soon with just a
simple update...
With kind regards
Frank Spangenberg
Student "Printing and Media Technology"
Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart (Germany)

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