Submitting PDF form through email

I created an order form PDF a year ago (with Acrobat Pro 8) for a client's website with a button to submit the form through email. The customers can fill out the order form in Acrobat Reader 8 and email the PDF to my client's email. Now that doesn't seem to work anymore - an illegal operation message comes up. I've changed the action for the button to submit the order form as a FDF file but the form data is not found once the email is sent. I've found the FDF Toolkit but have no idea what to do with it. Is there a simpler way for customers to fill out the form and email it to my client?

zorro248 wrote:
Is there a simpler way for customers to fill out the form and email it to my client?
Sure. Just enable the form so Reader users can save it when it's finished then instruct them to do so and attach it to an email.

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CALL FUNCTION 'SCMS_XSTRING_TO_BINARY'
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