Posting a fill in form on web with pdf sample items

Question

If I wanted to show some samples of something (pdfs-1 pagers)
the user could choose from. ..Say there were 4 of these samples.
and for an Order "Ticket"
the user completed some fill in fields that would become the
text that we would use to create the user's orders in Indesign and
the user could attach some pictures in an e-mail button that would
come to our department....
Is that possible? In Dreamweaver or could this be done in
Contribute?or how?

Answer 1

Normally you would create the underlying form in a word processor type application or page layout application and create a PDF. You'd then add the interactive form fields in Acrobat.
If you ever need to modify the underlying page contents, edit the original source document in whatever program you use and create a new PDF. Then in Acrobat, replace the old pages with the new, and any fields, links, code, etc. will be retained.
On Windows, there is a separate application that comes with Acrobat Pro called LiveCycle Designer. It allows you to create the entire form from scratch, but I find it more complicated and harder to work with. Such forms are known as XFA forms, while forms created in Acrobat are known as acroforms. I prefer to use a program like InDesign (which has great table features) to create the base form and add the interactive fields in Acrobat. It's much simpler and the resulting acroforms are more backwards compatible and work in a wider range of non-Adobe PDF viewers.