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The reason why the SAP licensing is so high is that it uses server side technology to render the form as a PDF when it is required by the user. This is needed so that SAP data can be inderted into the form at that time. If you want to build forms that have nothing to do with SAP then by buying a copy of Designer (through Acrobat) you are in fact rendering the form when you finish building it and are distributing the rendered form. You can do as many of these as you want. The ability to save locally and email completed forms is not part of the form design but part of the software that is reading the PDF (Acrobat or Reader). If your users are using Acrobat then there are no issues - they can save locally and submit whatever they like). If they are using Reader then you  will have to Reader Extend the form to allow for this functionality. Now it gets confusing. The ability to Reader Extend the form exists in two places ..... the full functionality is on the server and a subset of the functionality exists in Acrobat (local save and dig sigs). Acrobat also places a license restriction that the form can only be distributed to 500 people.

So with your copy of Acrobat you woudl Reader Extend the form before distributing it. If you want to do more than that then you will  need to determine if it makes more sense to buy copies of Acrobat for everyone or get a server based Reader Extensions license.  In your case you are only interested in the local save so from what you have described that one copy of Acrobat is all you need (assuming you are distributing to < 500 users).

Hope that helps

Paul