Can fillable PDFs from Microtype be read and filled on Adobe Reader as well?

There are of course other tools, some of them free, that allow you to fill in PDFs and save them. Some work quite well.

The issue would be saving the filled in PDF form with Reader. The PDF would have to be saved from Acrobat Pro with certain settings to allow the PDF to be saved with Reader. I don't remember the details because it has been awhile.

One other thing to be aware of: later versions of FrameMaker don't use Acrobat Distiller to create PDFs unless you explicitly set FrameMaker to use Distiller. So you have to have Acrobat Distiller installed because FrameMaker doesn't ship with it anymore.

There is no reason a PDF form shouldn't work in Reader.

Other options to consider for making PDF forms:

• Adobe InDesign
• AEM Designer (I don't know if this is still available as a standalone program, but it was great at making PDFs for computers)

Little weird to be asking about another product in the FM forum, but I thought that was the whole point of creating forms - so that users could use Reader to fill them out. The consumers of the forms wouldn't need Acrobat Pro - but you as the producer might.