Use Submit Form Selections to send the complete Document Option

[MargaretHuang]

I am developing a website, which will host some fillable PDF forms that are designed by Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. On the form, there are three buttons, which let users to (1) button one - print the form and bring in a hard copy (2) button two - email to designated department (pre-configured email address) (3) button three - submit online. Button one and two are working fine, but I have trouble to get button three working. I may not have enough knowledge for this Submit a Form button.

We need the completed PDF document to be submitted to our system. We have a utility to extract the PDF fillable data if we can retrieve the PDF document, so we don't need to export to FDF or XFDF.

We are interested in the last option: "PDF The Complete Document". What format of URL can I put in here to enable the export to a PDF Document to success? Would someone please help?

[gkaiseril]

Have you read anything about submitting on-line?

This is not saving the form on an on-line server but submitting either the PDF or some variation of the data contained within the PDF to a scripted web server page for further processing by the web server using an appropriate scripting language on the web server.

[MargaretHuang]

To gkaiseril: yes, I need the filled PDF documents themselves. If I am able to collect these PDF documents (filled by end users) on our web server, I have designed a workflow to route the PDF documents for an approval process. and within the process, I use an utility extracted the data on the PDF form to a database.

I try to explore the functionality within the Adobe Acrobat DC Pro to accomplish the online submission by adding the submit Form button with an action.

[NKOWA555 · Accepted solution]

Q#3: End users will be able to submit the whole document using Adobe Reader if the form has "extended usage rights" applied using Adobe Acrobat Std/Pro. Otherwise; the button can only submit just the data (normal for Adobe Reader users) and you can have a server-side script such as ASP.net merge the data with a blank form using iText (iTextSharp) technologies. Either way Adobe Reader will be required; because, most web browser PDF viewers are unable to submit PDFs.

Visit the following website for more information and online examples with source code:

www.fdftoolkit.net/examples/

[MargaretHuang]

Now, I understand why I am seeing these references:

C# - Generate and Deliver PDF Files On-Demand from a Template Using iTextSharp - CodeProject (using iTextSharp)

and

Submitting and Processing PDF Form Data - CodeProject (using PDFkit.Net)

Looks like iTextSharp is open source, using NuGet to get it to my Visual Studio project. will be a great MVC project.

Question: How do I enable "Extended Usage Rights", I am using Adobe Acrobat DC Pro. Thanks!

[NKOWA555]

Extending Usage Rights using Acrobat DC:

Creating and distributing PDF forms in Adobe Acrobat DC