Comparison of Acrobat Pro X to Livecycle in creating forms

1) Does Acrobat Pro X provide all of the objects (such as image fields, buttons, etc.) to be used in creating a form that LiveCycle does?
2) If you create a form in Acrobat Pro X, is it required to use a server, even though the PDF form is meant to be a standalone form?
3) Thanks.

The main difference in the types of fields available is an XFA form allows an image field and it allows a date field that includes a date picker. Acrobat actually allows you to use a button as an image field. The problem is it doesn't work with Reader, even if you fully Reader-enable the document. Maybe someday they'll restore this capability to Reader since a lot of people have feature requested this.
LiveCycle Designer also includes a large number of 1D bar code fields which are more difficult to implement with an acroform (using a text field), but it's still possible.
Forms created in Acrobat (acroforms) do not require a server and can be standalone forms. They are capable of submitting to a server if needed.

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code:
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Hi all,
I was advised to buy Adobe Pro XI yesterday by the Direct Sales Adobe team because it includes "everything I need" to create and EDIT PDF forms. I actually rang up to buy X but was told it was now XI.
I tried to edit a form today and got this message:
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I was told this was included in Pro but can't get past this message. I previously had a trial of Adobe Pro X and WAS able to edit this very form.
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We created forms in acrobat 9 pro and now with XI pro cannot edit them. Error message states that livecycle designer is required to edit forms previously created in acrobat. Called tech support and waited for over an hour before being told that another product needed to be purchased for $300 more than the upgrade cost for acrobat pro XI!!! From the XI FAQ - The web site states:
The following customers are eligible for a free upgrade:
Customers who purchased a prior license to Acrobat and have purchased an upgrade to Acrobat XI Pro
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Active Creative Cloud Complete members whose memberships started before October 15, 2012
The one-time LiveCycle Designer upgrade is available in English, French, German, or Japanese. Eligible customers can choose which language they would like to receive. Visit the Customer Support Portal to request an upgrade.
After entering in the needed info on the support portal was told that adobe will Not honor the sales rep & web site which both said we are eligible for the free upgrade. We asked for a full refund and will not longer be using any new adobe products. We went back to 9 pro forms work fine and adobe lost $. Nice work adobe - lie to customers and then act surprised that the customers want their $ back! They told us to just toss their software DVD in the trash where IT belongs, so we did!
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Acrobat Pro XI ohne LiveCycle Designer? Was mit bestehenden Formularen machen?

Hallo :-)
tja, ich habe seit gestern Acrobat Pro XI. Eigentlich war die Freude groß - bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, an dem ich gemerkt habe, dass ich nun keinen LiveCycle Designer mehr habe. WARUM? Da ich Cloud-Member bin, war bzw. bin ich der Meinung immer auf Letztstand zu sein?!?
Oder habe ich da das entscheidende verpasst, dass LC-Designer nicht mehr Zusatz vom Acrobat Pro ist?
Wenn nicht - was soll man dann mit den bereits bestehenden LC-Formularen machen, welche man wiederverwenden bzw. ändern muss? Sollen die jetzt dann alle neu gemacht werden??
Weiss einer von Euch Rat?
DANKE
Tina

Hallo :-)
hatte heute einige Telefonate mit Adobe, die leider nicht ganz zielführend waren.
Anfangs hat es ja geheissen - werde Cloud-Mitglied, dann bist du immer auf Letztstand ..... ok .... LCD wurde aus Acrobat entfernt und man muss es nun extra kaufen ?!? Finde ich persönlich teilweise nachvollziehbar aber trotzdem schade :-)
Bei den heutigen Telefonaten hat es auch nur darauf gezielt - dass ich eine Stand-Alone-Acorbat Pro XI Version kaufe, dann bekomme ich den LCD ES3 kostenlos dazu - und das sei ein Schnäppchen.
SORRY LEUTE - ich bin Cloud-Mitglied - warum soll ich jetzt plözlich wieder anfangen Einzellösungen zu kaufen???
Die Frage ist nun -
1. wie stellt sich Adobe es vor, dass die Leute, welche bis jetzt mit LCD gearbeitet haben nun ihre Formulare bearbeiten sollen?
2. gibt es einen LINK zu einer LCD ES2.5 Version für die Leute, welche auch weiterhin mit dieser Version arbeiten wollen? - jeder der bis zum MO mit Acrobat Pro X gearbeitet hatte hatte ja diesen LCD
Wäre echt toll auf diese Fragen Antworten zu bekommen ohne gleich wieder 300 EUR auszugeben :-) und ich bin mir sicher ich bin nicht die einzige, die sich diese Frage stellt.

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Hello,
I am building a fillable questionnaire form using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and X.
Within 1 question, I want to set 3 fields, each representing an answer that can only be answered once.
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Thanks,
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Thanks for your explaination although I am aware of both functions and thats why I chose one over the other.
I can understand that with more experiences with scripts or the software, you can 'play' with the function much easier and better than I could as I'm quite junior to all of these. So I appreciate if you can bare with me as I try to explain what troubles I have and ways I had tried to solve them.
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I will have to repeat this for quite an amount of questions I have for the form, so whichever that is easier to achieve and would produce minimum problems /errors, would be preferred.
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