Hi Randal,

I knew a friend that did something similar.

The basic steps of what you'll need to do are as follows:

• Get the (free) Acrobat SDK: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/main.html
• Read the documentation in the SDK for help on creating an FDF file using HTML forms.
• Once you create an FDF, you'll use that as the file to serve to your visitors (which will display the merged PDF).
• The PDF template can have separate buttons for "Print Me" and "Submit Me"

HOWEVER: if your users only have Acrobat Reader, they will not be able to save the pre-populated PDF to their computer. (if they have the full Acrobat, I believe they can).

(Alternatively, you can pay $2k - $3k for a program called PDFMerge which will actually merge the FDF with the PDF into a file your users can save . . . .)

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