Acrobat Form email submit

Hi
Just wondering if it is possible to have a form created in acrobat 8 pro emailed back once complete? I only seem to be able to print the form them fax. not ideal...
Thanks in advance
A

Depends on how many uses you need.
If under 500, you can enable usage rights for Reader users in the "Advanced" menu.
They'll then be able to fill out the form, save it, then attach it to an email to you.

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Sorry folks - haven't looked at this for a while - found the answer on another thread - don't know why it appears answered here but the answer ain't good I'm afraid and it looks like the problem is with Adobe. Some of the answers were as follows:
Office 2011 on Mac is not an officially supported email client for Acrobat 9 and Acrobat X. Thanks.
Outlook (in Mac Office 2011) is not supported?!?! Adobe is not supporting Office, the MOST POPLAR software package available on the Mac? This does not help Adobe and certainly does not help its customers. This is an awful deficency that needs to be fixed.
Adobe was too dumb to go looking up what was happening with Office for Mac. They've only had 3 years to find out. That they were replacing Entourage with Office. There is no such thing as Entourage on PC. They should have known. I think since they got caught flatfooted they will have to add.
Put simply - it now DOES NOT work with Office 2011 for Mac - downgrade Office anyone?

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Im making a form using livecycle for the first time.
Im trying to put on it a email submit button - i used email submit field and made the button. Then in the Objects Palette, in the box that says email address i put in the email address that i want it to be sent to. I then tried to email the form, and i received an email, but the attachment was just a bunch of codes, not the form. I want the email to come through with the PDF form.
I searched on help and this is what i found:
3.
In the Control Type area, select Submit. Data will be submitted according to the settings in the Submit tab.
4.
Click the Submit tab and type the URL protocol in the Submit to URL box.
To
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ftp
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Submit the package to a web server
http
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https
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Hi,
The issue is that if the form is not Reader Enabled, then users with Reader cannot submit the form as a PDF.
They can submit it as an XML file and then you would re-import this back into the form on receipt. It is an extra step, but it does have the advantage that the data being submitted as an XML file is very small.
If you really need/want the form to be submitted as a PDF AND your users have Reader, then the form will have to be Reader Enabled.
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Reader Enable using Acrobat Standard (version 9) or Acrobat Professional (version 8). This will give certain rights, like the ability for users with Reader to save the form and for the form to be submitted as a PDF. However there are licensing restrictions, see EULA.
The other option is to Reader Enable the form using LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES2. This is a server product, which entails additional cost and a cost to Reader Enable each form. It is intended for processing large volumes of forms/large volumes of data.
There is a summary here:
http://assure.ly/gYyYc2
So there are a couple of options.
Form NOT Reader Enabled:
Users cannot save the data they input.
Data must be submitted as an XML file and processed on receipt.
Form IS Reader Enabled:
Users can save the data they input.
Data can be submitted as a PDF (or XML file).
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I have a PDF form which gets submitted to the server using a submit (server-side) button. The data is then received in XML format by a ColdFusion component which does some validation and stores it into the database.
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