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Hi,

OK, I now have a laptop with Acrobat 8. To reader enable a form in Acrobat 8:

  1. Go to the Forms menu and select "Distribute Form..."
  2. This will bring you through a series of windows, where you have to tell Acrobat how you want to distribute the form (email or save) and give it a name. Acrobat will append the file name with "_pub_001".
  3. You send the "_pub_001" file to the workstation that has Reader 8;
  4. Note that you will have to include an email field in the form (which has a valid email address), so that the form can be reader enabled and distributed.
  5. Note there are licence restrictions.

Below are a few screen shots.

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Also I am uploading a couple of notes on reader enabling. These are draft and may be amended. Thanks to Paul Guerett for reviewing this.

Good luck,

Niall

ps   I have just discovered that in fact you can enable a static form for Reader users to comment / annotate a form. However dynamic forms cannot be enabled for comments (I think). I have uploaded a revision to reflect this. Any takers on corrections????