Script to submit a form via email

[boogyman]

When I have a form that has to be submitted in the same format as a written form, I use interactive PDF forms, rather than html forms. They can either be filled in and e-mailed back to you, or printed out and snail-mailed. This produces forms that are visually consistent no matter which method is used, and as the data is returned as xml it is easy to import into a database.

that is a good point, however it requires the user to have a plug-in, being the PDF Viewer.

[Rob (SA)]

Hi Folks,

These are two very good points.

Please can you direct me as to where I can find or create interactive pdf's?

Secondly what is meant by the user to have a plug-in?

Kind Regard
Rob

[marynorn]

I use Adobe LiveCycle to create interactive PDFs, but there are cheaper options on the market such as CutePDF.

http://www.cutepdf.com/

I'm not sure if you need more than the most recent version of Reader to fill in the forms, as I always use Acrobat, but you can use the free version of CutePDF, and PDFfiller was also recommended to me.

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Filler.asp
http://www.pdffiller.com/

Now that it's been pointed out to me, I realise why I'm getting so many people printing my forms out and sending them back, rather than doing it all on line. I know I get annoyed when I have to download something to do a simple task.