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Hi wharper,

If you have Acrobat 8 Professional and you create your form in Acrobat using the built-in form tools- you can apply Reader Usage Rights to the form.  These rights enable an end user to fill out the form and save it with the free Adobe Reader 7 or above.  They could then email the filled form back to you.  BUT, the EULA (End User License Agreement) in Acrobat 8 Pro states that you can only collect the same filled form from 500 different users.  If you have more than 500 clients, you may want to take a look at a service like FormRouter (www.formrouter.com) to do this.

NOTE:Reader Usage rights for filling and saving forms is not available in earlier version of Acrobat, and all of your clients would need Adobe Reader 7 or later.  Also, this scenario assumes you want to get the filled in forms back indivdually and are not planning to port the data to a database or spreadsheet.  If you want to do that, then there are other options that would work better for you.

Hope that helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com