Live Cycle vs Adobe Pro.

I know most of you are thinking, if this guy has no clue what the difference is, he is in trouble.   I am trying to design a form,   should i use adobe pro or go thru Live Cycle, what is easier.
Also where is the best place to find out how to do stuff.    I have a book being sent.   any great sites online to help newbee out.
thank you
yes, this will be a long project, first time.   always fun.
thanks
jk

They are right that it is important. A key point that many form developers miss is that Reader is limited - it doesn't just not have the creating/editing stuff. There are particular functions that either are or aren't in Reader or depend on particular setups that might or might not have been done. To really support your users consider virtual machines for their various configurations.

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Just before 5 months i used to work on version 9.0.1. And i was told that 9.0.1 is the latest version for adobe live cycle es2.
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Second, once the form is complete one seemingly complicated step to fix the "attach as pdf instead of xml" if your form keeps attaching as "xml" if it already attaches as "pdf" then skip the rest of the "second step"
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Ok, the above is a lot of words but if you print it out and follow step by step you'll see how easy it is and after a couple runs you won't have to look at your cheat sheet again.
Fourth, So, it was easy to figure out how to make a form the frustrating part was sending it out to be filled in save, printed whatever then sent back to me (now you). the problem is, the form has to be distributed to be approved so to speak. If it is just for one person that is no big
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Fifth, Distributing to yourself so you can approve the form for world wide dissemination.
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     send it back to yourself again (don't get confused...it's really you as the customer sending back to yourself as the owner of the form) if you are a criminal think of it as like "laundering money through a bank" you are laundering the form through your own email system
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7th, forget the data set, no longer is important...find the form you saved and open it. go to the top and click the "advanced" button then "enable user rights in adobe reader" then click "save now" this is the final form so name it appropriately and place it where you want
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NOTE: this procedure only validated with LiveCycle 8.0

Here is the window you will see when you choose Enable Usage rights.
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The following blog post by Jeff Stanier (Adobe LiveCycle Designer Product Manager) explains the reason why XFA forms are not supported on mobile.
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Adobe Acrobat X1 Pro- cannot edit a PDF we created. It says to use Live Cycle, Does this Adobe subscirption not include Live Cycle? The earlier version of Adobe did.

Cannot edit a PDF we created in Adobe Acrobat X1 pro. The form tells use to use Live Cycle to edit. Does the X1 subscription not include Live Cycle? Our earlier versions of Adobe did include Live Cycle

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Our company is currently using fillable PDF forms that are created in Word and converted to a fillable PDF by our company webmasters. Our individual department would like to be able to create the fillable PDF and post to our website to be completed by customers. After the form is filled out and submitted, we would like the form emailed back to a staff member(s) looking exactly like the form that was filled out with the customers responses. We are not interested in having an 'response database'.
What products that Adobe offers do we need -- Forms Central or Live Cycle?
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You could create the PDF Forms in FormsCentral. If you have Acrobat XI you can create unlimitted local PDF forms with the FormsCentral for Acrobat that comes with Acrobat Pro XI.
You then need to open the form in Acrobat and add an email submit button yourself. So instead of using the FormsCentral submit button which would collect responses in the View Responses Table in FormsCentral, this way the submission would send you an email of the fill out PDF form.
This FAQ explain how to modify a FormsCentral form in Acrobat :
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The MDI style windows with Ctl+Tab to switch between documents is not helping me in the context explained above
adobe Acrobat work on multi instance if I type acrobat.exe /n;
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Hello,
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It works well to read, write and display. Techincally, read, write,and populate functionalities of the PDF form are working without any trouble.
I was trying to upload a doc file using the PDF form. I could not make the upload functionality work.
Can anybody help me with uploading a file to the webserver through PDF form?
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Hi,
I will try to find the standard function module. If there is no such standard function module, then we need to create a custom function module.
Check this link:
[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe]
Points that you can note:
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2) Also adobe Interactive forms can be created & connected to SAP database using Transaction SFP.
3) And for both of the above 'Adobe Live cycle Designer' should be installed on the front end.

HELP required in ADOBE LIVE CYCLE DESIGNER 7

Please guide whether the following can be done in ADOBE LIVE CYCLE DESIGNER 7
1. Design a form(PDF) and connect to a database
2. Call the designed form(PDF) from an external application (Oracle Forms 9i)
3. Pass some values dynamically into the query of the form(PDF) designed.
4. Based on the values passed dynamically into the query,
some values have to be populated into the form (PDF) from the database.
5. Should be able to enter additional values in some blank columns of the called form(PDF) and save it.

1. LiveCycle Designer can helps in designing PDF and/or XDP templates these templates can fetch data from database.
2. XDP templates can render output in PDF and HTML format. Those accessible for other applications.
3. I never tried passing values in query string. There could be a way to do this.
4. These templates can prepopulate data and can do additional user interface actions. There are methods to repopulate/refetch data after initial display.
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Hi Experts,
I created a web service from FM and trying to consume that in Adobe live cycle. My problem is:
1. I don't know how can I test this webservice layout?
Could you please provide me the steps on how to consume it properly and how to test it becuase for me its not giving any response back.
I will appreciate if you can send a step by step document at tyagi.sandeep10atgmaildotcom
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Edited by: sandeep tyagi on Oct 16, 2008 1:36 AM
Edited by: sandeep tyagi on Oct 16, 2008 1:37 AM

Hi Sandeep,
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/148ec26e-0c01-0010-e488-decaafae3b26
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Hi,
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