Differences between liveCycle Forms and live Cycle Designer

Good morning
Someone tell me which is the difference between lliveCycle Forms and live Cycle Designer???
Thank´s

In a nutshell:
LiveCycle Designer is a tool for creating PDF forms, form templates (XDP format) and form guides.
LiveCycle Forms is a server side product for combining form templates and XML data to produce interactive PDFs or form guides.  It also can process submitted forms including extracting data from a template.  Forms can be combined with other LiveCycle modules to create a more complex document workflow.
In other words:  You build the template with Designer.  You use Forms to merge the template with data and process user submissions.

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