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Buttons and Self-Attaching PDF to New E-Mail

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    • January 20, 2011 at 1:19 pm #58445
      WrtrChristine
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      Using Windows 7, InD CS4, exporting to PDF —

      Goal: For a reader to click on a button in a PDF and have a new e-mail message pop up where they can then send that same PDF via that e-mail message.

      Can do: The button that pops up a new e-mail message is not a problem, but…

      Problem: …I have no clue how to get the PDF to self-attach to the e-mail. Is it even possible? Is there a work-around?

      Thanks for all suggestions.

      Christine

    • January 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm #58447
      Somerset Walmsley
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      You have to use Acrobat Pro (not Reader) to mkae the interactive button. Use the submit button, with the submit via email option. You'll be able to specify the mail to address, subject line, and what format you want the form data to be attached. There's an option to just have the user completed form pdf sent back.

      The last step is to enable end user rights, which lets the user save the pdf prior to sending. Once you do that you can't open that pdf to edit the form, so be sure you save a copy before enabling.

      So far as I know, there's no other way to do that sort of interactivty from InDesign.

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