Submit completed form as pdf excluding previous pdf pages.

I have created a pdf binder which consists of 5 pages and a form which was created in Acrobat (not Livecycle).  I created a submit button which submits the completed form (page 5) as a pdf back to me. The problem I am experiencing is that the entire PDF document is emailed back. How can I isolate the form from the previous pdf pages. I am using Acrobat Pro vrs 9 on a windows XP machine.  Or am I going about this incorrectly from the start.

Change the submission to be just the data, not the form. Select FDF, XFDF, or XML. For your application, I would use FDF. If this form is for others to e-mail back to you, then be aware that e-mail submission is subject to problems that you can not prevent (all associated with the client machine configuration). Thus submission to a web script is ALWAYS preferred. Also, you may want to save the from as backward compatible to be sure folks with older versions of Acrobat or Reader do not have problems with it. Backward compatibility can be obtained with Document>Reduce File Size or with the PDF Optimizer. If you used some new features, they will be lost (but of course those are the features that would have caused problems).
Once you have the FDF file, you can simply import it into the form (in some cases, just clicking on the FDF will open it in the form if you did not move the form on your system. You can then export the data to other formats (see the manual for more info, or just play around with it).

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