How will this affect my 500 limit EULA agreement for submitting forms?

You will go over your limit easy, BUT you are doing it the wrong way. If the form is on the web. It can be filled on the web and the data can be sent to you. You can population a form with the data and send it where you like. Total user limit used is zero. If you insist on the user filling out the form on his computer, the user's computer can still email back the data to you and you will not use any number of your 500 user limit. The only way you hit the limit is if you insist they send you back the actual form.

You may be in need for some legal advice. However, as I last read the EULA, you would have no problem if the number of users does not exceed 500. I would read to confirm, but the way I had read it was the number of users, not the number of uses. So for regular reports from within a company it might be alright. Again, you and your lawyer need to read the EULA carefully. I would not make such a decision based on what any of us here suggest. If there are lawyers among use, I am not sure they want to give legal advice as such in this forum. So what you get is opinion based on our read.

If you set up the form so that it submits just the form data (FDF, XFDF, etc.), there is no need to Reader-enable the form. Therefore, the 500 returned form limit does not apply, since it only applies to Reader-enabled forms. An FDF or XFDF file can easily be imported using Acrobat into a blank form, causing it to be populated with the data in the FDF/XFDF data file. You can then view, print, and archive the populated form.

To clarify a point that Bill mentioned, if you place a Reader-enabled document on a web server so that it is accessible by more than 500 users, you have effectively distributed the document to more than 500 users. Consequently, you are limited by the Acrobat license to using no more than 500 instances of the enabled form (including hardcopies) that have been returned to you.

You can still enable the forms, allowing users to save the form, and set them up to submit only the form data. Since an instance of the extended document is not being returned to you, what is returned does not count towards the 500 returned document limit.

When you set up the submit form action, select FDF (or XFDF), as opposed to PDF.

Yes, you can populate a blank form with the data file and send the populated form to other people.

Kind of obvious now that you mention it, but I have never thought if it that way. Thanks for the observation! Bill

It applies to both.