Submit form button will only save PDF and not send.

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Our school uses a paper discipline form and my principal has asked me to created a PDF version that can be filled out and emailed to him instead of us filling it out by hand.  I've set up the submit button exactly as all the tutorials say.  When I go to test it out (mailto function is correct in the form), instead of an email client selection, I get a "Send PDF Data As" box.  At that point, it wants to save the form and the email never sends out.  Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks so much.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I do, but it's not the one I have at school. I'll try creating one and see if that works. Thanks for all your help.

Thanks everyone for your input. I found my issue. Turns out our copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro X wasn't updated. Once our IT Department updated it, it worked fine. Thanks again for looking at my issue.

NKOWA555 · Answer

FYI: If you are using Adobe Reader to view the PDF, you will need to enable usage rights on the PDF using Adobe Acrobat in order to submit the whole PDF format; and not just the data. The message you are getting, "Send PDF Data As", looks like it could be sending just the data, and not the Whole PDF format.

Visit the following website for an online tool to help you generate your mailto command:

www.nk-inc.com/software/fdftoolkit.net/email-pdf-mailto-generator.aspx

Also, try submitting to a server side script; such as ASP.net. The script is capable of bypassing client-side email software, and sending the form submission using an existing SMTP account. Private Message me if you would like a live demo, or a single script.

Visit the following website for server-side script examples:

www.pdfemail.net/examples/

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