With Acrobat 8 Professional, users can now enable the save feature in a PDF form for distribution to people with Adobe Reader 7.0 and above. According to the Adobe user license agreeement in Adobe Acrobat, this feature applies to ad-hoc forms distribution and data collection.
With Adobe Reader Extensions, you can activate usage
rights in any PDF form so that users of the free Adobe Reader
can now:
Allow files to be saved locally
(with form data)
Add digital signatures
E-mail filled forms
Export and import
form data
Take advantage of file attachments
Add comments and field
data
Submit entire forms to a server
Restrictions
The license agreement for Acrobat 8 Professional limits this functionality to 500 unique users, or 500 submissions.
How FormRouter Can Help
FormRouter can teach you how to enable Usage Rights in PDF forms with a licensed version of Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro and above. This will allow your form users to locally save, digitally sign or submit PDF forms to a database securely.