PDF Form entries

Question

In completing a PDF form none of the entered information either prints or shows on e-mailed form. A lock appears at the bottom right hand corner of the screen indicating that info may not be able to be entered on form. If this is what's keeping info from printing or e-mailing how is it unlocked?
Ron DiPalma

Answer 1

An automation script in Adobe Acrobat is one way that you can merge data into a form.  What you are asking about is called variable data printing.  You might want to do a google search on that before writing custom script.  Maybe there's a product out there that will help. 
As for the process in Acrobat. A custom script for this isn't too bad, I've written a few variable data scripts myself, but you'll need to learn something about Acrobat Scripting.  You'll find lots of tutorials at www.acrobatusers.com and there are several free videos on beginning Acrobat JavaScript at www.pdfscripting.com.  In fact I wrote a variable data print tool for Database connected LiveCycle forms at www.pdfscripting.com and there are also videos there on scripting a variable data process, but these are only availible to members. 
So to begin.  Acrobat cannot load data from a csv file.  But it can load data from a tab delimited file and connect to a DB or an Excel file.  So you could convert your csv file into an Excel Spreadsheet and then export it as (DOS) text.  This would allow you to use the "doc.importAsText()" function to load data into the PDF form.  There are a lot of details on how this has to work, If you don't get a pre-built tool you'll have to spend some time learning the Acrobat scripting environment
Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
pdfscripting.com
The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
The Console Window (Video tutorial)
The Console Window(article)