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Add a submit button to Adobe Acrobat Pro X
1. Create your pdf form
2. TASKS – Add New Field
3. Select “Button”
4. Double tap new button
5. Button Property pane opens
6. Under General Tab Name: insert Submit
7. Under Appearance Tab Select your button characteriics,
color, outline, font and format
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8. Under Options, select:
a. Icon top, label bottom
b. Label: SUBMIT
c. Tap on Choose Icon
d. Navigate to icon location and double click to insert
9. Icon will be imported into your Submit button
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10. If you are not longer In the Button Properties
Window DOUBLE CLICK to reopen and Select Action:
from drop down menu, select Submit a form
11. Click Add button
12. In the Enter url link, insert:
mailto:email@address.com
-the email address that you want
to receive the form. NO Spaces!
13. Select PDF The complete
document
14. Click OK
15. Action window will look like this, select Close
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16. Your pdf document/form will appear in edit mode with the Submit button
17. move the button to the target area and select Preview
18. Your pdf document is Good to Go! Click and check to verify that the document was sent to the
target email address.
Comment: If you select no color for the button and the line, your icon will be your submit button:
With border line: Without border line; just click on the mailbox
