> Is it possible to create interactive buttons within a PDF form using 
> coldfusion 8?
> Specifically, I would like to add "email", "print", and "save a copy" buttons 
> to a pdf form I'm building using coldfusion.

No, not really. That is, CF doesn't provide an easy way to do this.
The idea is that you design your forms in advance using LiveCycle
Designer, then interact with them via CF. That said, if you want to be
hardcore, PDF forms are expressed as XML, so in theory you could
generate that XML at runtime. I wouldn't want to have to do that,
though.

If you have LiveCycle Server, you can modify PDF forms in various
ways, including adding buttons, etc.

> Alternatively, is it possible to add fields to an existing pdf form using 
> coldfusion?

You can append one PDF to another, and this might get you where you
want to be. If you can put your fields in a form at design time, you
can append that form to another PDF at runtime. This is demonstrated
in the Advanced ColdFusion 8 curriculum, which is available here:

http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/cfcurriculum.html

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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