Suppose I have a save-enabled pdf form which is modified every month to include the Month-Year information, would I violate the EULA if the monthly usage is less than 500? It should be emphasized that the form is not changed except for Month-Year information which is clearly visible.
The Acrobat EULA limits local save of forms data in either of the following ways:
(a) A user of Acrobat 8 Professional may send out a PDF form to an unlimited number of recipients for such recipients to fill in the form. The Acrobat 8 Professional user may only extract data, however, from up to 500 copies of such filled–in form received back from the recipients, regardless of format (e.g., paper, fax, email and electronic submit);
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(b) A user of Acrobat 8 Professional may send out a PDF form to a group of up to 500 recipients so that such recipients may fill in the form. The Acrobat 8 Professional user may, however, send an unlimited number of copies of the form to those 500 recipients, and the user may extract data from filled-in copies of such form an unlimited number of times.
A user of Acrobat 8 Professional may not increase the foregoing limits by buying multiple licenses of Acrobat 8; the foregoing limits apply per Acrobat 8 Professional licensee and not per copy of Acrobat. That is, these limitations are not "stackable".
Use cases:
Example use case for (a) above: Surveys--A marketing manager of a company wants to quickly survey a few hundred customers to do research on an upcoming product. While they expect less than 500 responses, they need to distribute far more than that to get enough responses.
Example use case for (b) above: Expense reports--A small business with a few dozen field sales representatives regularly collects expense reports from such representatives. In this case, the form and the recipients don't change--the forms are repeatedly filled-in with information related to the then-current expense reports by the same recipients.
Thanks,
Lori
Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.