Readers can't comment on my PDFs

I was recently upgraded from Acrobat 8.1 Standard to Acrobat 11.0 Stamdard. Most people here have Acrobat Reader 9.
I want to be able to send out PDFs for review and have them comment in the PDF. My security settings allow commenting. Howeve, when someone open the PDF in Reader 9, comment is disabled.
What am I missing?
Thanks
Keith

Reader 9 doesn't allow commenting unless you specifically enable the document for it. Acrobat doesn't need this, nor does Reader 11. Reader 10 allows limited types of commenting with non-enabled documents. You enable a document for commenting in Acrobat 11 by selecting:
File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Commenting & Measuring
and this will work too:
File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools
The latter will also allow filled-in forms to be saved.

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