Creating a form in acrobat with pages

I am building a website for a friend and my friend wants a way where a customer can order online. Before buying the domain, i am outlining the site, starting with ordering online. So i want i want it when you click on the order page, it will open a PDF with an interactive form. I made a header in pages with the company name, and i exported it to PDF and opened it in acrobat and ran the form assistant and want to manually put in the forms. i want to make fields for email, name, and address. Then at the bottom hit submit. Now when the submit button is pressed i want an email to be sent to my friends email address. Is that possible? And when my friend gets the email who will the from address be from? One more thing, is there a way for the PDF to check to see if the email is valid? Thank you in advance

It would be more usual (and easier) to do this with php or server script than with either acrobat or pages. Doesn't your web program have a plug-in for forms submission? You will also need some kind of spam filtering on the form, too. Try searching your web program's help for formmail. Basically you need the piece to create the form the user sees and also you need to enable the requisite stuff on the server where the site is hosted.
If you want them to really order online (ie with credit card or paypal, etc), then you need something like Mals or another ecommerce solution. That's pretty easy to integrate into most web programs.

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Building Form in Acrobat with Pages

I am building a website for a friend and my friend wants a way where a customer can order online. Before buying the domain, i am outlining the site, starting with ordering online. So i want i want it when you click on the order page, it will open a PDF with an interactive form. I made a header in pages with the company name, and i exported it to PDF and opened it in acrobat and ran the form assistant and want to manually put in the forms. i want to make fields for email, name, and address. Then at the bottom hit submit. Now when the submit button is pressed i want an email to be sent to my friends email address. Is that possible? And when my friend gets the email who will the from address be from? One more thing, is there a way for the PDF to check to see if the email is valid? Thank you in advance

paypal offer a complete shopping cart solution that can be integrated into almost any website. This include collection contact/shipping/item info.
if you want to collect contact info you could use a HTML form integrated into a website.

Ora-20001 when creating a form on table with report (bug?)

Having some trouble creating a "Form on table with report".
1) I pick my table
2) take most of the defaults on the page where you pick the report type (interactive) and the page number (I changed it to 950). next->
3) Do not use tabs. Next->
4) Select all columns for the report. THEN (here's the problem) set an optional where clause of system_role_name like 'ODPSPOPUP%'. Next->
5) choose standard edit link. next->
6) Specify a page of 951 for the form (leave others defaults). next->
7) Set the form primary key (defined in table). next->
8) use existing trigger. next->
9) choose all columns for the form. next->
10) Leave actions to insert, update, delete. next->
11) Get to the summary page and click Finish
Then I get an error page saying:
ORA-20001: Unable to create query and update page. ORA-20001: Unable to create query and update page. ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
If I go back to step 4 and erase my where clause the wizard completes successfully.
Also if I change the report type in step 2 from the default of "Interactive" to "Classic" the wizard completes successfully. However upon running the report I get a query parse error. Looks like the where clause in the report sql is: system_role_name like ''ODPSPOPUP%'' (two single quotes on each side).
It looks as if you cannot specify a where clause with a quoted string. The wizard is expecting a bind variable.
Workaround(s):
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or
2) Specify a bogus where clause using bind variable syntax such as "system_role_name like :BOGUSVARIABLE". Then edit the report query once the wizard finishes and change the where clause to the constant string you wanted to use in the wizard (e.g. "system_role_name like 'MYSYSTEM%'")
Apex: 3.2.0.00.27
Database: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition 11.1.0.7.0 64bit Production (Oracle EL5)

Andy,
It's a bug, all right. Thanks for the detailed problem description. We'll fix it when we can.
Scott

Creating a form using Acrobat 9

I'm trying to create a form using Acrobat 9 and know how to insert check boxes and text fields but when I enter in data into the fields it copies it through the document. How can I create a field that I can cut and paste throughout the document but allow it to have separate data in it from the rest of the fields?

You'll need to rename all of the fields you copy & paste so that each one
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Creating a Form in Acrobat Professional 8

I am attempting to create a fully-interactive PDF form, using an MS Word Document which I created using Word 2007 on my system, which is Windows Vista Home Premium. I want the colleagues to whom I send this form to be able to complete it on line, and return it to me by e-mail. I have tried to do this in 2 ways:
I have opened the MS Word document, clicked on Acrobat, Create PDF, and in the window entitled Save Adobe PDF file as: I selected Fully Functional PDF and indicated that the resulting file be saved on my Desktop. It appears that the process does complete, but I can find the resulting file NOWHERE on my system. I've searched in every way possible, and find only a shortcut to the new file, but not the file itself. I obtain an error message when I click on this shortcut!
I have also opened my Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software, and selected Create PDF, from file. I selected the correct file, and the conversion process began. After 10% of the conversion was complete, the following message appeared: "PDF Conversion process failed; please correct the error and retry". However, I have no idea what the "error" is, so I cannot comply!
The form I am working with is NOT a template, but one I have created. My needs are not met by any of the available templates available within the program. I am at a loss for a solution, and hope that someone on this forum can help me.

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:34:27 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Creating a Form in Acrobat Professional 8
I am attempting to create a fully-interactive PDF form, using an MS Word Document which I created using Word 2007 on my system, which is Windows Vista Home Premium. I want the colleagues to whom I send this form to be able to complete it on line, and return it to me by e-mail. I have tried to do this in 2 ways:
1. I have opened the MS Word document, clicked on Acrobat, Create PDF, and in the window entitled Save Adobe PDF file as: I selected Fully Functional PDF and indicated that the resulting file be saved on my Desktop. It appears that the process does complete, but I can find the resulting file NOWHERE on my system. I've searched in every way possible, and find only a shortcut to the new file, but not the file itself. I obtain an error message when I click on this shortcut!
2. I have also opened my Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software, and selected Create PDF, from file. I selected the correct file, and the conversion process began. After 10% of the conversion was complete, the following message appeared: "PDF Conversion process failed; please correct the error and retry". However, I have no idea what the "error" is, so I cannot comply!
The form I am working with is NOT a template, but one I have created. My needs are not met by any of the available templates available within the program. I am at a loss for a solution, and hope that someone on this forum can help me.
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I am creating a form, it shows 1 page, but when I save it as a PDF Form there are 2 pages, 1 is blank. How do I get rid of the blank page in the form?

I am creating a form, it shows 1 page, but when I save it as a PDF Form there are 2 pages, 1 is blank. How do I get rid of the blank page in the form?

Hi,
You may open the original form in FormsCentral and toggle to “Page View” at the lower right corner. Adjust the page content to make sure no page breaks in this view.
Thanks,
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Created PDF form in Acrobat XI Pro, but HELP fields disappear when I save FCDT file to PDF. Please help. Thanks!

Created PDF form in Acrobat XI Pro, but HELP fields disappear when I save FCDT file to PDF. Please help. Thanks!

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I created a form using acrobat XI pro. SOME users of the form cannot save the form. what can i do from my side to 'correct' the issue?

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I have a HTMLDB page wherein there are about 5 different regions each having details for different modes of payment. For Ex: if mode of payments are cash, credit card and purchase order, I have 3 regions for these 3 modes each taking details like amount, credit card no.,expiry date etc...User can select more than 1 payment type.
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Can somebody tell me if this is a fesible solution for what I am looking at or is there any other better solution.

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Can you create editable forms in Acrobat X Standard?

Hi everyone,
Hopefully an easy question although I cannot find a definitive answer on the product page.
I need to be able to create editable forms that others can fill in and print or save using Reader 8, 9 or X. Can these forms be created using Adobe Acrobat X Standard? The forms have been created in Word 2007 but we want to disribute them as PDF's and allow certain fields to be filled in on the PDF. The form will be downloaded from a website, filled in and emailed back.
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I know you can create forms with Standard but I don't think you can enable them so that Reader users can save them without the Pro version.
dasnowball87 wrote:
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