I have recently been told that I will no longer be permitted to make Reader Extended fillable forms using InDesign and Adobe Acrobat for my company. The reason is that we can be monetarily penalized if we send out more than 500 documents. The fee we must pay if we choose to distribute a single form is $5000. What small company or school can afford that kind of fee?
Now this sounds a bit hokey to me but with nearly the whole world, the IRS, educational institutions, and every Tom, Dick and Harry using online forms to avoid trying to read handwriting, to get materials sent out quickly, AND the fact that ID has now got a lovely bit of the CS6 version dedicated to making forms for Acrobat, I don't know if we have the full story and if we have it right.
We make forms for grants that we distribute via e-mail and as a download from our website, but rarely get a response from more than 50 clients. We send out more than a thousand in e-mails and do not use Acrobat for distribution.
I would love to get my hands on ID CS6 to try out this new forms feature (you did a great job in the Lynda.com video, David!), but the threat of fees or prosecution from Adobe if we create fillable forms is making my bosses and the IT department skittish.
Can anyone put some flesh to this so I can point them in the right direction?
Specifically, this is the “Reader Extended Documents, both fillable and savable, that are made available by Customer,
including but not limited to on a website, Intranet or network” license from Adobe Acrobat. Since ID and Acrobat are so very intertwined now, this would be a good place to get more information.
My fingers are crossed.
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