Trying to transmit fillable forms as attachments

Using Acrobat Pro XI crwating fillable forms saved as other allowing receiver of form sent as attachment to fill in, save with data and return as attachment. Seems saving feature is stripped when sent as attachment.

Hi;
Are you using the FormsCentral desktop application included with Acrobat Pro XI to create the PDF form? If you are, what "Saving" feature are you referring to? Just saving changes to the PDF when someone is filling it out?
One note about sending out a FormsCentral PDF as an email attachment is that you want to alert your users that they need to use the Free Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to fill out the PDF, other viewers will break the PDF which may be what you are seeing.
Thanks,
Josh

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Dory Colbert wrote:
I am working on a very long document, over 100 rows and about 18 columns, which will exist only as a pdf. I need to make 6 of the columns interactive so that they can be filled in with one of three letters by the end user.
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