Alright so I created a PDF that has fields that you can fill in and signature fields(these do no work when clicked on) as well. From my testing it appears that although I have created a submit button that submits the form data this functionality does not work in browsers at all. I have tried in IE 9, FF, and Chrome. None of which work. My submit button was created through these steps.
1. Add a button
2. Right Click go to Properties
3. Click Tab Actions
4. Trigger = Mouse Up
5. Action = Submit a form
6. Text area that says enter URL for this link
- I put "mailto:jstewart@alphaengr.com"
- Also selected the export format as PDF the complete document
I have tested this in Adobe Reader 11 and it works just fine. Other than the signatures do not work.
The problem is if I have a user who clicks the link for the form it opens up the pdf in a new window. Then depending on the browser you may mot may not be able to see the buttons, but you cannot submit the form at all in the browser even if you can see the button.
Are these forms just supposed to be downloaded then filled out then submitted that way?
*I tried a work around by adding another button called email submit that executes a link and the link equals "mailto:jstewart@alphaengr.com" but this just opens up the email to send a blank email without the document attached.
How can I get this functionality to work? or is it just not possible in the browser?