RE: [PDF-Forms] PDF Forms Saving and Signing

[McDowell, Carol]

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Approval has not been discontinued, but Adobe is discouraging its use, and as you say, they are pushing Reader with Extensions.  Reader with Extensions has a 250 user license minimum, which cuts out the small companies. -----Original Message----- From: Edward Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF-Forms] PDF Forms Saving and Signing To my knowledge, Approval has been discontinued as a product that Adobe is offering, they are pushing their Reader with Extensions (much more $$$$ for them). So we now have one less option to work with. It all really comes down to who will be using the forms that you want people to be able to edit, internally (within your own company) or externally (anyone else who has Acrobat Reader 5 or 6 and needs to use your forms).   You then get into the area of who authors the form and how you want the form to be used within browser or externally.   Ed >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/25/2004 10:10:18 AM >>> PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Approval is the lowes price application I know of which does support saving and digitally signing PDF documents. On the other hand, you might consider the Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions, and make total cost comparisiions. Their "defined and limited number of users for a non-defined and non-limited number of documents" licencing model is price-wise comparable with Approval (or better an extrapolated price of Approval, if it were brought up to Acrobat 6 standard). For pricing about the Document Server for Reader Extensions product, contact your Adobe _Enterprise_ sales representative. Hope, this can help. Max Wyss PRODOK Engineering Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland Fax:  +41 1 700 20 37    or  +1 815 425 6566 e-mail:  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodok.com [ Building Bridges for Information ] ______________________ Shameless Plug: My next conference appearances and workshops: * Conference presentations at the 2004 Symposium of the BFMA, May 23 to 27 in Reno, Nevada (http://www.bfma.org) and pre-/post-conference workshop, May 22/23 and 27, organized by essociates Group (http://www.essociatesgroup.com/AdvancedAcrobatForms.htm) * And, as always, available for on-site workshops/tutorials/consulting. _________________________ > Does anyone know of any inexpensive software, other than Acrobat > Approval 5.0, that will allow users with only Adobe Reader 6.0 to save > and digitally sign a pdf fill-in form? To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html