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[Squiggy2]

I have some pdfs that contain forms, created in LiveCycle and Acrobat Pro. Ideally, I'd like the user to click on a link, have the pdf come up and after they've filled out the form on that pdf, they click a submit button and the pdf gets emailed to me (or saved to the server). Some of the forms are very specific, like 1040 tax forms, etc and some are very simple.

This seems like it should be fairly simple, but I'm not finding a basic solution. Any ideas?

[Carl Von Stetten]

I'm not sure if there's enough information there for a ColdFusion-based recommendation. Have you looked into Adobe Formscentral?  It might meet some or most of your requirements?

-Carl V.

[Anit_Kumar]

Carl,

Squiggy2 is routed to CF Forums by another user. See this http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1413743.

@Squiggy2 This is something managed outside ColdFusion. As, once the pdf is created (say even by cfdocument), it goes outside of ColdFusion. You may try at Acrobat Forum.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

[Squiggy2]

Thanks, Carl. I'm actually looking at FormsCentral right now, and seeing if it will work for my purposes. The website is backend is all Coldfusion, and I figured there would be a simple Coldfusion-based way to make this happen...

[Carl Von Stetten]

I believe that there are ways in ColdFusion to parse an uploaded PDF and extract the form data, but I've not done it personally.  I also think I've hear from others that you can set up a PDF form with a submit button that submits to a URL, and only the form data is sent in the submit (not sure if it does it via GET or POST though).  Hopefully someone who has actually done this can chime in.

-Carl V.

[Squiggy2]

Thanks again, Carl. The end result needs to be a pdf. The only Coldfusion solutions I've found require building a non-pdf form that is filled out and use cfpdfform to take the results and fill the pdf. That could work, but some of these forms are looooong and I thought I should be able to take a pdf, put it online, have it filled out and emailed to someone without the user having to download the form and email it manually.

Looks like FormsCentral won't work, as it only sends the results of the form fields to me rather than a pdf.