Granting document rights to Acrobat Reader users

Question

I invested a few years ago in a full version of Acrobat (5.0.5, I know, it is somewhat dated now). Can this be used to save a document with forms that can be edited and saved by Acrobat Reader users? If not, do later versions of full Acrobat such as 6.0 or 7.0 have this capability? If not, what is required, and how much does it cost for me to save a document so that a friend who only has Acrobat Reader can edit form fields and save the edits?
Seems like this should be a function of the full version of Acrobat.

Answer 1

LiveCycle Reader Extensions is the required product; no version of
Acrobat has this built in. The price is quoted for you by Adobe based
on a detailed profile of your company and intended use (number of
forms and users etc.) in order to compensate for hundreds or tens of
thousands of "lost" sales of Acrobat, so expect a significant quote.
Alternatively, http://www.formrouter.com/ can do this for you on a
per-form basis. Again it varies with your company, but it can be down
to $125 per page.
> Seems like this should be a function of the full version of Acrobat.
Seems that everyone would like it so, certainly. But Adobe have a
different business model.
Aandi Inston