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There is some confusion in here... (understandable, considering the occasional glitches when it comes to naming products at Adobe <g>).
What your Adobe sales rep should have said is that you would have to use Adobe Dcoument Server for Reader Extensions, in order to enable "additional features", normally not available for Reader. Local saving of client-side modification of the document is one of these features. What can cause a confusion is the term "server", which in this context means that it is a centralized process which does do the enabling. It does not mean that each and every download has to go through that process. When a document gets enabled, it has these rights, and then can be distributed.
There are other solutions out there, which would not require the Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions, but you would have to evaluate if that is an option for you. These approaches use a server-supported model, where the user submits the data to a (web) server and then receives a filled out form back from that server. Note that such a document can be locally saved, and all information it contains when it gets in from the server will be saved. For such a scenario, you would have to build up some infrastructure, of course, which may or may not be an option for you and your clients.
Hope, this can help.
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My company is currently using Adobe Acrobat to create PDFs. We want to start creating forms to sell to our customers, but Adobe requires a server extension (Adobe Reader Extensions Server) to be in place in order to enable people with Acrobat Reader to save the forms with their information in them.
Is there another PDF distiller/maker we can use that will automatically allow people with Reader to fill out the forms without having to download them from our server? Image quality is also important.
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