Publishing forms online

If I've created a fillable form pdf, what is the best way to publish the form online?
I'm using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and am wondering if I need a different program, such as LiveCycle to get the form online. I see how you can distribute the forms through direct email, but how can you make it available on a website for multiple users?
And once it is online, is the best way for users to send back completed forms by filling in the form and sending as a separate pdf or use the email/submit button option for a form?
Thanks for any help

You don't need to use any LiveCycle products to create a PDF form and place it on a web server so it can be accessed. Acrobat 7 does not, however, allow you to Reader-enable a form so that Reader users can fill it in and save it. That feature was added with Acrobat 8 Pro, and is also available with Acrobat 9 and 10.
You can set up a form so that just the form data is submitted, in which case the document does not need to be Reader-enabled. You can set it up to submit the form data to a web server (e.g., PHP, Perl CGI, ASP, etc.) or via email. Email is significantly less seure and reliable.

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I have a client who wants to create an online version of a PDF form that they are currently using. I am currently trying to explain to them that this would be best done as an HTML web form, but I may not win this argument. I have only used PDFs for printed forms (either hand-written or using form fields) so I am not familiar with any problems that converting the form for use online would entail.
When the 'Submit' button is pressed on the form, is there a way to redirect to another web page after the data is submitted? (i.e. does the PDF have access to it's outer 'environment'?)
Are there any security issues submitting data using the PDF form as opposed to using a standard web form? (There may be sensitive data being submitted)
I'm not sure how they plan to handle the data that is submitted, but there are several options in the submitForm parameters - I am assuming that using the HTML option would submit the data in the same format as a web form would. Am I correct here?
Can the PDF be prevented from being downloaded or printed? This form should only be used to submit data to their server, not as a printed form.
Are there any other 'gotchas' that I need to look out for? Does anyone have a recommendation for a site which contains any tutorials or guidelines for using PDF forms online?

Thanks for the information.
Yes, I agree that there is less reason for it to be a PDF form (Actually, no real reason other than the original form already exists in PDF), but I am unfortunately in the position that my input in this project is not necessarily being considered (my company is following direct -and inconsistent- directions from the client, and I have no contact with the client to ask questions about what their actual needs are). I have been told to give the client the 'Tomato' that they are asking for, even though they are describing an 'Apple'.
The reason this form is not meant to be printed is that we have replaced the 'Signature' fields from the original form with checkboxes that the user must check to confirm they have 'signed' the document. If they are to print/fax/whatever the document, they should use the original form, not this one. And I am still trying to explain to them that this would be better served with an HTML web form, but I fear I am losing that battle.
I have brought up the fact that it is not 100% guaranteed that Acrobat will be available in the browser, although I can only guess that it is less than likely that anyone will not have some sort of PDF viewer available to their browser.
I will also mention that issues may arise if the file is not submitted from within the browser.

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Mybe Google or woodpress,
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There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
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However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: #26 - How to Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
In addition the iLife suite of applications offered on disc is now a discontinued product and the remaining supported iApps will only be available thru the App Store from now on.
HOWEVER, the iLife 11 boxed version that is still currently available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of the page) and those copies still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD.
OT

Best option for hosting forms online and archiving the completed forms?

Forgive the length of this post, but I feel it necessary to give a little background information into our problem.
We were looking for a simple solution to a seemingly simple problem: Host ~15 safety forms online for field technicians (electricians) to fill out via their netbooks and submit to some sort of repository for archiving with the ability for the technicians to reopen the forms and make additions over the course of the job / week as well as firing an email off to our H&S rep per form submitted.
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The issue now is that I have Dynamic XML forms with flowed content that cannot be submitted by Reader to sharepoint. Why? You can't reader extend livecycle forms with acrobat, which it is bundled with.....
Why exactly adobe has two different and somewhat incompatible forms authoring tools bundled in the same product is beyond me, especially when one of them requires what I would imagine is an expensive server product to enable it's full use?
So it seems I have a choice between having my employer purchase Reader Extensions ES2 to maintain the nice form design with flowed content, purchasing 12 copies of acrobat to put on the netbooks when Reader SHOULD be all that we need or converting all the dynamic XML forms authored in LCD9 into static AcroForms so they can be reader extended and deployed to sharepoint.
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Ok, so I have done some additional reading and I've found out that Livecycle forms can be submitted via reader without reader extensions so long as the submit is via HTTP Post or as XML data only.
This effectively means you can collect the data from the submitted forms for processing, but you can not re-render the form from the form template and the XML without the presumably expensive server component, Reader Extensions, which for all I know, requires other components to run.
This all seems awfully expensive for a solution to host a dozen or so forms and archive the submissions in one place where they can be re-opened and added to.
I don't undestand why it's so prohibitively expensive to submit dynamic PDF forms as PDF vs submitting static PDF forms as PDF, which can be done with Acrobat Pro all by itself at ~$500.

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Distribute form online

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Hi,
I'm fairly new to PDF creation, but what I would like to do is post a fillable form online(web server), allow the users to fill out the form, click a submit button, and post the completed form back online with its own unique URL for others to view. Is this possible? If so, any guidance in the right direction would be appreciated.
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Pdf forms online to input data as opposed to traditional web forms

hello,
my level is beginner but i am given a project . well task
to create a online application system to reduce paper work.
i have seen some online application ( using pdf) on the web
and it seems better (looks better than a web form i ussually fill
out on the web.
i would like to start on a project that does this PDF forms
for online.
how do i start this.
i have seen one that you can start inputing on the web but
does not input (store in DB)
i wish to do this where i can store in a db
how do i get started on my online application using PDF.

To do this you will need the Full Acrobat editor. With the
editor you
can take a PDF and add form elements to it and direct it's
action to an
action page on your site. You then publish the PDF and you
are in
business. This is well documented in the Acrobat help.
susanring wrote:
> hello,
> my level is beginner but i am given a project . well
task
> to create a online application system to reduce paper
work.
>
> i have seen some online application ( using pdf) on the
web and it seems
> better (looks better than a web form i ussually fill out
on the web.
>
> i would like to start on a project that does this PDF
forms for online.
>
> how do i start this.
>
> i have seen one that you can start inputing on the web
but does not input
> (store in DB)
> i wish to do this where i can store in a db
>
> how do i get started on my online application using PDF.
>
>

Is this the product I need to create PDF from a form online?

Hello,
I need to develop an application where the user fills out an online form and a pdf is automatically created and emailed to them, a copy is also archived. Am I looking in the corect place by exploring LiveCycle PDF Generator or am I looking for something else? I am currently using php and MySQL but from the looks of it may be necesary to use XML. This is very new to me so any direction would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Nils Satterstrom

I am in the same boat as Nils. Has anyone made any discoveries on this? I have a call in to a "specialist" at Adobe, but it will be 3-5 days before someone gets back to me. I want to collect the data using PHP/MySQL and then populate a PDF template of some sort to create a print-ready PDF that I can send to my printer.
An example of how we plan on using this is with business cards. We're going to create a business card template PDF with form fields for Name, Title, Phone, Email, etc. and then have the user enter in their information and then create a print-ready PDF we could send to the printer to get printed. I am unclear on which Adobe product would work for this. The pre-sales team at Adobe said we might want to look into InDesign server and LiveCycle. I guess the starting price tag for either of those is $10,000.
Any insight would be great. Thanks!

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