Ok At this point I have Acrobat Pro on a few user desktops. They are saving partially completed copies forms all over the place and at times saving to the origional form rather than a copy. We are a very small company and as such so is our current budget. What I would like to be able to do is this;
1. Allow my users to fill out a web form or some other form say in our customer database application and store that information.
2.Once complete a PDF document can be generated with the proper fields populated with the client specific data. I still need to be able to edit the data in these fields later if an error is detected on it's travels. Some other fields will also be blank for client fill in.
3. Once the PDF is generated I need to e-mail it to a recipiant for review and completion(I would like to be able to let them save the changes they make in case they are unable to fill out the entire form in one sitting.
4. Once completed (and this is the easy part) They just print it sign it and send it back to us via snail mail. e-mail return is out of the question here because we need origional signatures.
As I understand it I need the reader extensions thing but do i really need the forms server or another product, can I achieve all this with just the one product. If not I supose i can just learn to live with my users saving documents willy nilly all over the place. I have only about 3 or 4 users who will be generating the partially completed documents for clients and the number of folks these docs will be sent to is fairly small at present as well say perhaps 6 or 8 seperate documents prepaired for 2 to 4 clients per week. I need to baby the clients to shepord them through our process and i need to control my users habits but in the end what i need is a cheap KISS(Keep It Simple Stupid) style solution.
thnaks for the help and by the way I a preferable to VB and .NET but if i have to go all JAVA I can dust off my J2EE stuff i have laying around.