Is LiveCycle Designer the appropriate tool

Hello there,
I am looking for a tool to take existing PDF forms (think goverment forms) and make some subtle formatting changes, and generate new forms.
I plan to use fdf files to populate the form fields when rendering the pdfs from the forms.
Is LiveCycle Designer the appropriate tools for this type of work?
I am being lazy here. I do not want to recreate the entire pdf form. I would really like to take the existing pdf form and use it as the base to begin with. I want to add a couple of new form fields and then save it.
I presume that LiveCycle Designer would do this.
Thanks for any information.
.......Cameron

Hi Cameron,
To add to Dallas's post, even if the pdf was created in some other program (and not flat) you will probably still have some difficulty adding content to it. Converting from FormFlow goes pretty well, converting from MS Word is hit and miss. Can you post one of your forms? It would be much easier to give you a good answer if we could see what you're dealing with.

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