Saving a Populated Form

How can you save a form that has been populated by a user, so they can repoen it later and see what they entered into the form?

They need to use a PDF viewer that's capable of saving a filled in form. This means Acrobat, Reader 11, or previous version of Reader if the document has been Reader-enabled. You can Reader-enabled a form with Acrobat. For example, in Acrobat 11 that last thing you'd do before distributing the form to users is select: File > Save as Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools
The menu item is different with every version of Acrobat, starting with 8 Pro.

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