Acrobat 9 Forms

I am working with Adobe Acrobat 9 on Windows. After creating
my form, I want to be able to send it to recipients and receive
responses at a email address different from mine. Is there a way to
do this?

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Here are some links to the JavaScript documentation: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.1216.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_Dev_Templates.80.2.html
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I read the following an article at InDesign Secrets
http://indesignsecrets.com/automated-forms-with-acrobat-8-and-indesign.php
It explains how to use layers in InDesign to help Acrobat's form recognition recognise form fields when there is not enough definition. However I wanted to be able to apply the same sort of concept to a complex area.
created a layer with a simple form design on top of the layers with complex design. I exported the PDF, open it up in Acrobat, hide the complex layer and the run the form recognition.
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The first thing you need to come to grips with is that anything that's
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Follow these steps:
Open Acrobat
Open form
Go to advanced menu
Choose extend Features in Reader (as described in Acobat 9.x for Mac).
Once menu choice is open choose what you want to allow.
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Acrobat CD Form Button Display incorrectly when an effect or transparency is applied Via indesign Looks like a bug

I have tested existing interactive pdfs that function perfectly in Acrobat XI and Adobe acrobat Reader but open the same files in Acrobat DC and Acrobat DC Reader and most of the documents i have designed and produces over last few years have been renderer useless
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I have been posting in an indesign Thread https://forums.adobe.com/message/7427566#7427566 it contains picture and a sample document
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Graeme,
I downloaded your PDF file. I have both Acrobat DC and Acrobat XI Pro and I can confirm that I view it the same way that you do.
It clearly seems to be a bug. In the Acrobat beta group, most users are probably not InDesign users, and most of us who do use InDesign probably didn't create or test Show/Hide buttons using those forms of transparency. I'm sure it's not intentional, probably a side effect of some other change.
It needs to be reported as a bug. I'd suggest using the Bug Report form here:
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
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Rich Media & 3D
PDF Forms

It's good that you'll be submitting a bug. This sort of thing has happened before, and I think it's related some to the fact that InDesign is capable of generating field appearances that you can't set up in Acrobat (transparency in particular).

Acrobat 9 Form won't mail from Vista- help please?

Id like to thank all past help from the forum. Sorry I haven't written my gratatude before this. That doesn't mean I don't apreciate the help. I've gone from one super frustrated and dissapointed user to someone slowly begining to apreciate exactly what Adobe 9 Pro really is, mainly from what I've picked up in this forum.
So far I've managed to make a registeration form that can be e-mailed to people, they fill it in and click the send button and I get it back. When it arrives, it even updates the database properly. I'm so proud about this achievment too... Except for when a Windows Visa and probably Windows 7 user tells me it doesn't work. They report an error when trying to send the form back! Grrrrr. What have I done wrong?
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I'm unsure if I can post a link here to the form. But I'll give you a run down. I used the "forms" selection of Acrobat 9 Pro to create a registeration form. It can be downloaded from my web site and sometimes we attach it to an email. Interested people fill in the form (at this stage it is being seen with acrobat reader in a web browser). There is a purple line at the top of the form with instructions to click submit form to return the completed form.
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I might point out that I've had a lot of problems with forms and the Adobe solution is one my instructor at night school suggested. I thought offering the ability to return it by email or if that didn't work, print it and fax it back was enough until I learn a better way of doing it.
Although this looks like quite an nice way to do it, the delay in loading the form is one issue I am concerned with and the fact at least 4 of my 40 replies (so far) have had to fax it bothers me. I'm open to any suggestion (costly or otherwise) that is going to overcome this problem as forms become more and more important for my operations.
Thanks for your reply. If I can discover it it is in order to post a URL here to the form, I will.
Doug

How to set an 'alert' or reminder message for end-user Acrobat X form.

Hi,
I'm trying to see if I can add an alert or reminder message for the end user who will be filling in a form that I'm creating from Acrobat Pro X.
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Currently, with the limitation I've made, they couldn't type in any letters but, they might be frustrated and not fill in anything!
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Thank you for the code.
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I have a Word document that I converted to a form in Acrobat 9 Pro. I added two separate digital signature fields, one for a conference presenter and the other for the conference planner to sign. There are also a number of text fields where presenters give bio information. I saved the document using the Extend functionality so that a user who only has Acrobat Reader would be able to fill in the form, sign/save it, and then send it on to the conference planner. The first part is working fine. However, once the first user signs/saves the document, the extended functionality goes away. When the conference planner receives the document, it is essentially locked. She cannot sign and save.
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Hi Steve,
I have met similar problem. Using Adobe 9.4 I have prepared document with three signature fileds. I did signature in one of the field and then did extension to Reader. When I checked the propierties of document it occured that signing was not allowed. I couldn't sign it second time (not saying of Reader's user).
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Hello World!
I work for a school with 200+ computers installed with **. The problem I'm having is when a user downloads a PDF form from our web page and goes to start inserting data in the fields the text just duplicates in all the boxes. If you try and delete the text from any of the boxes it delets everything. I've tried repairing the install by running the original installer file. I've even reinstalled a test system and still duplicate this error. Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide that will help you help me.
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Hi,
This forum is not for Acrobat product.
Plaese post your question again in http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat if you haven't.
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Hello folks,
We are developing an Acrobat PDF (I have Pro updated to 9.4.5) with about 30 fields. Some of them contain a default label name, others are blank, and all fields have a unique name. The blank fields on the form are being filled via an automated web services API from Aspose. All info is entered and the PDF is then flattened by the web service.
The document fully populates with all expected data but we are running into three issues:
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2) When I create a new form field, and assign a font face/size/color and input a default value, if I go back and try and change the size the default content seems to hold it's original size unless I do a full cut/paste of the value back into the box.
3) We are getting the notorious "An Error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem"
The odd part is we were not getting that error at first - even with data populated. It was only once we started working on getting the fields horizontally and vertically aligned that the error presented itself.
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Dear Michael:
The documents do not look professional with the 2 different font sizes. And it
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It's really less of an Acrobat vs. Reader issue than it is the security restrictions that are the default. For example, the "global" object that can be accessed via JavaScript can be used for this, but the user has to allow for it by setting a preference. Other security restrictions can be bypassed if the user installs a custom folder-level JavaScript file.

Help with Acrobat 9 Forms

Using XP and Acrobat 9 Standard:
I have three questions about working with forms that I don't find answered anywhere.
1. Can I edit the info in the Document Message Bar? If so how?
2. Can I join form fields? I want to combine a short text field on one line with a longer text field on the next line so that the info will wrap to the 2nd line. For instance, there is a short question with the rest that line being blank. Then the next line is across the whole page. I want the top line to continue onto the 2nd line. I understand checking the multi-line option in preferences for a form field that is deep enough to hold several lines, but I want that short line to be included also.
One of my problems may be that I need to have the form available with hard lines for hand completion and also available for those who want to complete it online.
3. Once I make a form that can be completed online, do I have to 'distribute' it? I just want to upload it to a website so members can download, complete and email as an attachment. Do I have to do anything special to accomplish this?
Thanks for your help.
KW

Thank you George.
Let me explain a little. I do the computer work for a 501c3 charitable organization with only about 200 members. The completed forms will normally not be coming back to the computer that creates the form, but to the member who is collecting the data. There would be no security concerns with the data. Our website only has one public page and everything else is available in a 'members only' section.
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2. I will redesign. We were hoping to use one form for both the hard copy, hand complete version and the online complete version.
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Thanks for your quick response.
KW

Acrobat 9-forms-Radio buttons print different than check boxes

I am using Acrobat Pro 9 to create forms.
I've used both radio buttons and check boxes (that are circles).
Forms were designed in InDesign with Zapf Dingbats as the open circles to be filled in.
I used radio buttons when the user had to pick one over the other.
I used check boxes when there were multiple choices or I wanted the user to be able to uncheck a box. (I used the circle style so they would look like radio buttons).
The radio buttons are printing differently than the check boxes. It looks almost like there is an overlay on top of the actual open circle created by Zapf Dingbats.
I checked the "appearance" window and there is no border or fill color on the radio buttons (same for the check boxes).
Under the <general> tab, <common properties> is visible. I'm assuming it should be in order for the radio button to appear on the form.
I would appreciate any input as to how to fix this.
Thansk!
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