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I have recently started using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. When I create a form and email it to the person that I would like to fill out the form, that person in turn can not complete the form if they do not have the full adobe acrobat program. They have only reader and can read what I send them but they can not fill out the form and return it to me. Is there a way to resolve this or does anyone who I would like to fill out the forms have to have the full adobe program?

Yes, but!
Similar to atlantasprinkler1, I have both Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat Reader X installed. Adobe, in their wisdom, finds documentation on this topic barely worth mentioning. The questions I would answer, if I provided docs for them, would be 1) what versions of Reader will allow users to send my forms via the email link? 2) what the heck is going on in the various pathways Adobe allows for enabling mailto with PDF forms? And a host of other questions.
If I create a Reader-extended form with a mailto:[email protected], when I open in my email client and click the PDF, my Reader pops up an additional interface for responding. What happens if someone with an older version of Reader opens it. Heck, they might have managed to hang onto version 5 or 6. Will it work? Adobe's docs don't say, and I haven't found a forum where this issue was discussed. I suspect Adobe has embedded code for an SMTP server somewhere in this functionality, but they don't mention it, outright. They prefer to wrap it in vague, "user-friendly" terminology.
Is this working for me because A) I have both Reader and Pro installed? or B) because I have Reader X? What versions won't work?
Sorry for making this sound like a rant.

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