Thanks to both of you: radzmar for pointing me to good background/theoretical info, and pranav for nice simple instructions!

Thanks @radzmar,they've helped clarify things, though I might need to ask further questions as I'm not sure if my second question is explained there.Boris

I've got Acrobat Pro 9 Extended, I forgot to mention that!

Windows 7 UltimateMS Outlook 2007LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2Reader XI'm very new to LiveCycle & have just created my first form with a "submit by email" button which sends the data from the form as an xml file.I can see how sending as xml would make sense if the idea was to use the form to collect dat...