Creating Editable PDF

I have created a document in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro that has several Text fields and Combo Boxes. My goal is to be able to have this document open in Preview on a mac and or Adobe Reader on PC computers so that clients can fill out a form I started for them and send it back to me regardless of what computer they are on.
I have clicked on Advanced -Extend Features In Adobe Reader. And this seems to allow the other software to open/manipulate and save the document. Although every time the document is re-saved out of Preview, a Text Field is deleted. And then another if you save again, and another, so on and so on.
I am not sure where to begiun diagnosing this issue?
If anyone has any advice that would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Jesse Korosi

~graffiti wrote:
Keep in mind that Phillip grossly mistates or misunderstands information that he reads.
Phillip, when building forms, web pages or anything, your goal should be to make it as usable as possible for anyone using anything.
What's wrong with having them download Reader? Well for starters, if you are serving the public or your customers, you don't want to make them download anything if possible.
Adobe is not going to drop support for Mac so you can quite sayinhg that. Stop believing everything you misread on the web.
I'm going to have to copy links to documents I read and keep them, just to prove what I read is just what I read. Obviously you don't read cNet, ZDnet, and ComputerWorld Daily reports. The reporter did say they he recommends that, Adobe, pull all support the Mac. I suppose if you want to go to cNet and look it up.
As for Adobe doing away with Mac Support, (Which I am Not saying will happen for now), what benefit would it be to continue support if Apple had a program that could do anything and everything an Adobe product could. If a customer could get the same operation in a Free (included) feature of the system. Are they going to spend bucks on a competing product that has little or no features of advantage. (I wouldn't). And if no one buys any products what's the point of continuing support.

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