Form Printing Scenario Implementation

Hi All,
As per my knowledge, There are three basic Interactive Form scenarios are:
1. Online Interactive Form Scenario
2. Offline Interactive Form Scenario
3. Form Printing Scenario
I want to know how to implement these scenarios. In some document I saw that the design time for interactive scenario can be NWDS or ABAP work bench. But for the thired scenario they gave only ABAP workbench. Does it mean the thired scenario will be implemented only in ABAP stack?. Can we implement in Java Stack also?.
Thanks
sampath

Most questions can be answered by reviewing the adobe documents area in SDN.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe
The install guides are here:
SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe - Configuration Guides [original link is broken]
There are several basic steps you have to perform for adobe to run in an ABAP system.
Create an ADSUSER user and assign the adscallers roll to it. This is done on the java side when the ADS component is installed. You will need to make adsuser a technical user in the java engine, as this is not its default setting.
Create an ADS_AGENT user and assign SAP_BC_FP_ICF, and SAP_BC_FPADS_ICF to the user.
Activate the services in SIFC /sap/bc/fp and /sap/bc/fpads.
Create and RFC to point to your java engine where ads is installed.
Create A PDF Printer.
Create a Desitnation in the java stack to point back to the ABAP system and log in as ADS_AGENT.
Depending on your scenario you may need SSO and SSL turned on.
Also, these are some good notes to review.
1055911- Creating ZCI based interactive Forms in Web Dynpro for Java
1043531 - Windows Vista support for Adobe Designer and Reader
1036205 - ACF Support for Adobe Reader 8.1 in SAP Interactive Forms
834573 - SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe: Acrobat/Reader version
766191 - Active Component Framework Installation
747694 - Illegal dynpro state after RABAX
517484 - Inactive services in the Internet Communication Framework
750784 u2013 Licenses
736902 u2013 Adobe Credentials
944221 u2013 Trouble shooting interactive forms

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