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How to Submit Entire PDF by Email using PDFill PDF Form
Maker
You can export the entire completed PDF Document that
you have just filled. Although this creates a much larger file
than the FDF option, it is useful for printing directly.
Please make sure that both you and your
client has the free Adobe Reader XI before you read the following steps:
Here are 7 steps on How to Submit Entire PDF by Email using PDFill PDF Form
Maker:
Step 1: Read your PDF into PDFill PDF Editor
Step 2: Add New PDF Form Fields
Step
3:
Add a Push Button Form Field with Email Submit
Step 3.1: Create a Push
Button Form Field
Step 3.2: Select "Actions"
Tab and Add a new Action
Step 3.3: Select "Submit a Form"
Action, "Mouse Up" Trigger and "Email Entire PDF"
Step 4:
Save all Editing into a new PDF with Email Submit Button
Step
5: Distribute
your new
PDF Form
Step
6: Your Client clicks "Submit Button" to
Submit by Email Application or Webmail
Step 7: Process PDF on the Receiver's Side
Step
1: Read your PDF into PDFill PDF Editor
- click the icon of "PDFill PDF Editor"
from your desktop to start PDFill
PDF Editor. You will see a screen like this:
- To open
a PDF file, select Menu
File >
New Project to Open PDF. Or, click from
Toolbar. Then, a File Selection Dialog comes up. Select
your
PDF file. Please wait a few second until all PDF pages are read
into PDFill.
Step
2:
Add New PDF Form Fields
You should
now see your beautifully designed PDF opened inside PDFill PDF Editor with a
Forms Toolbar that looks
alike the following images:
This
toolbar is where you provide interactivity to your static PDF. To create a
form field, just click one of the Form Field Tool. Select the type you desire it to be: Text, Check
Box, Radio Button, Combo Box, List Box, and Push Button.
See details in
How to Convert an Adobe PDF to a Fillable and
Savable Form by PDFill PDF Form Maker
Step
3:
Add a Push Button Form Field with Email Submit
Step 3.1: Create a
new
Push
Button Form Field
- First, click Push Button
Tool
in the
Forms
Toolbar.
- Then, hold Left mouse button
to create a form field of the required size.
- Finally, the new form field
properties dialog comes up to set the new form field's
properties.
Step 3.2: Select
"Actions" Tab and Add a new Action
From New Push Button Field properties, click the
Actions Tab and then click the Add Button.
Step 3.3: Select "Submit
a Form" Action, "Mouse Up" Trigger and "Email Entire PDF"
- Select
an Action: "Submit a Form"
- Select a Trigger: "Mouse Up".
"Mouse
Up" is the preferred trigger type for Push Button
Form Field.
- Select "Email Entire PDF"
- Enter
the "Email To", "Email CC", "Email BCC", "Email Title", "Email Body".
Step 4:
Save all Editing into a new PDF with Email Submit Button
The "Save PDF Options" Dialog will come up. All the PDF Editing will be
saved directly into the original PDF with options:
Output Options,
Description,
Encrypt/Decrypt,
Initial View,
and
Presentation Effect.
You can click each Tab to see the content.
If you just begin to use PDFill PDF Editor,
use the default
options and click "Save PDF as ...".
Please
don't put space inside the PDF file name.
Adobe Reader will have problem to email the entire PDF.
- You must
save editing into a project file (PFL) so that you can resume
editing later.
To save this project, select
Menu
File >
Save Project or click
from Toolbar.
Step
5:
Distribute
your new
PDF Form
The final PDF with Email Submit Button is
Fillable and Savable with
Adobe Reader XI. You have two options:
- Put your PDF Form under a
website and email your clients the link.
- Email the entire PDF Form
to your clients.
Step
6: Your Client clicks "Submit Button" to
Submit by Email Application or Webmail
You client must have Adobe Reader XI or
later installed. If he has problem to submit, please
uninstall all the versions of Adobe Reader from Control
Panel, then install the latest
Adobe Reader.
You can configure the Email Account from
Adobe Reader => Preferences => Email Accounts
=> Add Account.
Your client can view your PDF Form
inside IE browser directly, or download it to a local
folder from his Email account and then open it by Adobe
Reader. Then, he clicks the "Email Entire PDF" inside
Adobe Reader. He will see this "Send Email" dialog.
If he selects "Default Email
Application", he should see the email window like this:
If he selects "Use Webmail", and select
"Add Gmail", he should see a window like this:
Enter the gmail account name and
then password, the Gmail will be launched with
receiver's email, subject and PDF attachments.
Step 7: Process PDF Data on the Receiver's Side
After you receive the email with the entire
filled PDF document from your client,
save that PDF into a folder for
your client. You may have to
rename that PDF using your
client name. You can print the PDF form
filled by your client in any time.
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