Allow Reader users "Document Assembley" permission

I want to be allow Reader users "Document Assembley" permission in a PDF saved as Reader Extended - PDF / Enable additional features. When I do that the properties of the file change the Document Assembley option from allowed to Not Allowed automatically. Can anyone advise how I can do what I want to do with this sort of distributed file?

"Document assembly" (DA) refers to the ability to add/remove/rotate pages in a PDF file, or change the bookmarks tree. None of these is ever possible in Reader, so the DA flag is always disabled.
The process of Reader-extending a file involves a signing process which in turn means that some editing features which are normally possible in Acrobat have to be disabled, and DA is one of them.

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2. LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server has a User Interface that allwos you to pick the rights you want. There are no luser imitations to this option.
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I apologize for being unclear. I'll try to clarify the facts.
1. I have written a custom subcontract agreement for one client. This is the only client that I will ever give this particularl document/subcontract. My client will *never* send the data or the document back to me. Once I turn over this document to my client, it is from my perspective, a one-time, one-way transaction.
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Will be the only person who will ever put data in the fields (using Acrobat Reader);
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Hey.
In Acrobat there is a function that makes you able to allow Reader users to enter data in a form, and save it. Its used by going to advanced > Extend features in Adobe Reader.
The form im using is only a template, and this works for that single form only, and since the form im using is only a template the extended features i activate in this way doens't work with the newly created ones created of the template.
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Anyway, as the error is shown, i cant type in anything in the form, making it really useless. It has been tested on more than 1 system.
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LiveCycle is a suite of many products, not just a single product.
> and they say that they believe that the form is saved in a "different" format.
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> I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro, but the function is only active in the template, not the form created by the template.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288074%28v=office.14%29.aspx
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Seems like this should be a function of the full version of Acrobat.

LiveCycle Reader Extensions is the required product; no version of
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