How to distribute forms?

Hi!
My idea was to make an invoice for a couple of colleges in Acrobat 9 Pro, 9.1.3, using forms.
They were supposed to use the invoice directly to their clients (not send back replies or filled in documents to me) - so they needed to save their own copy of the invoice document.
When I e-mailed them the invoice they couldn´t fill it in and save as a new document - the document went blank when they saved.
In Acrobat help I found something like extended authority (or something like that - it was in swedish) - but where do I find that in Acrobat?
I did this once before with an earlier version of Acrobat and it worked perfectly...
Is there another way to do this in Acrobat?
I´m using PC, windows XP - and my colleges are using mac....
please help!
/Jonas Rosenberg

I think in 9 you can still go to Advanced>Enable usage rights in Adobe Reader.
Keep in mind that there is a 500 use limit. For what you are doing, I would study the EULA carefully to be sure I understand it.

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