[pdftex] pdfTex-form, submit-button

[twma]

Dear Ross, Thank you for your quick reply.
I am using Adobe Reader, version 6.
I have no problem to fill in pdf-form created by the COMMERCIAL section.
twma
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> On 17/11/2006, at 2:55 PM, twma wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> The index.php is linked to formTest.pdf
>> It successfully opens formTest.pdf created by pdfTex
>>
>> When I click the submit button in formTest.pdf in order to activate
>> Act.php,
>>
>> I get an error message:
>>    You need to be running inside a web browser in order to submit
>> this form
>
> That could well be true.
> What PDF browser are you using?
> It may not be web-enabled.
>
>
>> \begin{Form}[method=POST, encoding=html,
>> action="http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/\string~twma/friends/testing/
>> Act.php"]
>
> Remove those "  characters.
> They are not needed, and are quite wrong.
> When I try your example, at your site via a web-browser, I get:
>
> The requested URL
>    /~twma/friends/testing/"http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~twma/friends/
> testing/Act.php"
> was not found on this server.
>
> That is, the " makes the URL a relative one, rather than absolute.
>
>
>>
>> Name: \TextField[name=yourName,value={}]{}
>>
>> \bigskip
>>
>> \Submit{Send} \qquad\qquad \Reset{Clear}
>>
>> \end{Form}\end{document}
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> 	Ross Moore
>
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