Your Question: I would like to send a pdf to my customers and once they filled it I would like to give them the possibility to send it back to me filled, like filling a form in a website!
Answer: The filled out form can be sent back using several different methods.
1) The easiest way is to create a button, and set the submit button action to the desired recipient email address: mailto:you[@]domain.com. This method is the least reliable way; because, it requires client-side email software to be correctly configured on each client who submits the form.
2) The most reliable way is to submit to a server-side script such as ASP.net or PHP; which can bypass client-side email software and send the submission using an existing SMTP account. ASP.net scripts have an advantage of utilizing iTextSharp technologies. With iText technologies the server-side script can merge the submission data (FDF, XFDF or XML) with a blank PDF form; so there's no need to extend usage rights to the PDF using Adobe Acrobat. Normally Adobe Reader users can only submit the data formats; not the whole PDF form. iTextSharp can also parse the incoming PDF form data, and inject it into the mail message's TO, CC, BCC, subject, body and attachment file name properties. The server-side script methods work with both Adobe Reader Standalone and Web plug-ins.
Note: Both methods require Adobe Reader in order to submit the PDF forms. Adobe Reader for mobile users have limited functionality; and may not work on some tablet or mobile devices.
For online ASP.net submission examples:
www.pdfemail.net/examples/
Visit the following site for a mailto generator web app that you can paste into your button:
www.nk-inc.com/software/fdftoolkit.net/email-pdf-mailto-generator.aspx
Contact me and I can setup a personalized demo:
www.nk-inc.com/support/sales/
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