Livecycle Designer v. Omni Form

I need to know of any possible advantages of using Adobe Livecycle in creating forms versus using Omni form. Can anyone provide me with an objective view? Thanks!

Well I've never used OmniForm, but I can give some advice as a user of Livecycle Designer.
I know that Livecycle Designer can make dynamic PDF files meaning that the form fields can expand and contract (and the document along with it) to fit any amount of user input. Omniform can only make static PDF files at this point.
Livecycle Designer is also a very young program. I've been frustrated many times with it because the interface hasn't been refined, it tends to run slow, and there seems to plenty of bugs left to be worked out. Give it another 3 or 4 years and I'm sure it'll be an excellent program if Adobe stays focused on its development, but at this point I probably wouldn't recommend it unless its necessary to be able to create dynamic PDF files.

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How this can be achieved?
I searched a lot & I found that we can process the XDP file generated from PDF to acheive this. I created the XDP file out of the PDF template created in designer. But I don't know how to merge data from database into that XDP file in respective fields and again convert this XDP file back to PDF programmatically. Can anybody help me ? This is urgent.
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Sambhaji

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Adobe LiveCycle Designer compatible with Forms Central?

I have 50+ forms created by Adobe LiveCycle Designer. Company upgraded to Forms Central and was told LiveCycle created forms are still editable in Forms Center. But it will not allow me to edit any of my forms. Need to recreate from scratch? LiveCycle says password protected, so I changed to no security, and it will not accept my password. Reset on Adobe.com but will not recognize it. Now all of my forms are useless. Any suggestions?

Hi hutchiles,
It sounds as though you may have been given some bad information. Adobe FormsCentral doesn't support LiveCycle forms. Please see Convert LiveCycle Designer form into Form Central (Forms) for additional information.
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Livecycle Designer form distribution - bound fields blank

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. The user community has no import capability (forms are email-attached for opening using the free Adobe Reader). I want to populate the form from my end (Adobe Acrobat 8.13). I was under the impression that associating the form as follows was sufficient fo populate the form.
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Adobe Acrobat 9 and LiveCycle Designer

We have had some outside help creating forms and they have been using LiveCycle Designer and we would like to make some changes however since we only have Acrobat 9 we are not able to open the form to edit fields. When looking at the help menu in Acrobat is stays that You can use LiveCycle designer to edit forms that were created in Acrobat, however Acrobat can not edit forms fields that have been opened and saved in LiveCycle Designer.
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You should be able to open the form. As far as edits, you will have to go to the FORMS menu. The TOOLS>Forms is for the AcroForms, not LiveCycle. The FORMS menu is generally your entry to LiveCycle. If you do not have that, it is apparently an issue with Std (I thought they had added Forms to AA9 Std).

Use AcroJS in LiveCycle Designer

Hi all,
This is my first post and i am totally new to creating pdf forms.
I am using LiveCycle Designer 7.1 to create forms. I want to embed lot of javascript in the form. As per my understanding i need to use AcroJS. But it does not work as it is in the LiveCycle Designer 7.1. I got one doc (Converting Acrobat® JavaScript for Use in
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Problem is most of the features of acroJS are not available in the LiveCycle Designer. What should i do ? Is there any other tool using which i create forms and embed the Javascript in the form. Or i have to use LiveCycle Designer to create forms. Please advice. Thanks in advance
Ramdas.

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is my first post and i am totally new to creating pdf forms.
> I am using LiveCycle Designer 7.1 to create forms. I want to embed lot of javascript in the form. As per my understanding i need to use AcroJS. But it does not work as it is in the LiveCycle Designer 7.1. I got one doc (Converting Acrobat® JavaScript for Use in
> LiveCycle Designer Forms) which tells necessary changes one has to make to acroJS to use in LiveCycle Designer.
> Problem is most of the features of acroJS are not available in the LiveCycle Designer. What should i do ? Is there any other tool using which i create forms and embed the Javascript in the form. Or i have to use LiveCycle Designer to create forms. Please advice. Thanks in advance
>
> Ramdas.
Ramdas,
You can actually use Acrobat Javascript within a designer form. The
key to being able to do this is accessing the 'document' object. You
can do this with:
var myDoc = event.target;
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Javascript model.
One other recommendation...you'll get more responses to your
Designer/Javascript questions in the Designer forum rather than this
one. This forum is for the LiveCycle Forms, which is an enterprise
server product (although the name is somewhat confusing).
Justin Klei
Cardinal Solutions Group
www.cardinalsolutions.com

Is it too much to ask that a Mac user can just OPEN and USE a PDF form created by LiveCycle Designer PC software?!?

My problem is just that- I have created all my forms using LiveCycle Designer because it is easier to make the forms accessible to individuals with disabilities. Apparently it doesn't make Mac users have access to the forms. I've received complaints from Mac users that cannot complete or submit the forms that I created. I'm not asking how to recreate using another software, I know how to do that. I'm asking is there a work around to allow a Mac user to open a PDF form or even XML (bedded within an HTML page) on a Mac computer WITHOUT having to use bootcamp, parallels, etc. and be able to complete the form and submit, print or email it????? I've exhausted all my knowledge on this thus far and I'm hoping to find something that will help. So far all forums talk about how Mac users need to have a PC side to their computer. Isn't there another way?
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-bind_at_load
Sets a bit in the mach header of the resulting binary which tells dyld to bind all symbols when the binary is loaded, rather than lazily.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/ld.1.html
Load resources lazily.
You should never load a resource file until it is actually needed. Prefetching resource files may seem like a way to save time, but this practice actually slows down your app right away. In addition, if you end up not using the resource, loading it wastes memory for no good purpose.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneos programmingguide/PerformanceTuning/PerformanceTuning.html
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3789

Editing Form Fields inside Acrobat? (after using LiveCycle Designer)

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended == Acrobat
LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 == LiveCycle Designer
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Say I downloaded a new PDF from the interwebs.
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I remove that pesky little object.
In LiveCycle Designer, I save the file as PDF.
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I hate the GUI of LiveCycle Designer --- I had rather edit the form fields from inside Acrobat, as it is easy and fast to change multiple form fields in a few clicks.

Thank you Niall for the above response; Your response gave me an idea which allowed me to remove that line by zooming in to 200%
You know Acrobat detects Form Fields for you.
But many times it makes mistakes, for example in the screenshot below it made the boxes that came with the PDF as text fields instead of check boxes.
The thing is rather than me delete the (form) fields it detected, and start over by making new check boxes, I will not be able to place my new check box in exact locations as Acrobat has done.
When I imported the fields that Acrobat made into LC (by saving the PDF in Acrobat and then opening it with LC) I get option to change the Object Type from Text Field to Check Box when I right click the object.
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I would really like to do it inside Acrobat because then if I have to make some minor changes to some field properties, all my hard work which I did by filling the fields gets deleted, as I am forced to use LC. The text I add to the fields don't get deleted when I edit the field properties inside Acrobat. I don't know why LC decides to delete all the text which is filled out in the form fields even though the PDF is saved in Acrobat before being imported into LC?
Here is the above PDF file with the text boxes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnn32jm5am5
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I am creating a form on LiveCycle Designer and I am trying to create a form that has a e-mail submit button. When the butten is utilized it attaches the form to the e-mail in an plain text .xml format rather than the pdf format. Is there a quick fix?

I am creating a form on LiveCycle Designer and I am trying to create a form that has a e-mail submit button. When the button is utilized it attaches the form to the e-mail in an plain text .xml format rather than the pdf format. Is there a quick fix?

Hi,
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Bruce

Creating PDF forms in LiveCycle Designer 8.0

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Question on a quirk I have noticed when creating a form using LiveCycle Designer 8 and was wondering if there was a way to change this.
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In the properties of for that Text Field, on the "Object" tab I check the box to allow multiple lines and I limit the length to the visible area.
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Post your question in the LiveCycle Designer forum.

How can I use a script in a Livecycle Designer form, to force display of text in Title Case?

Hello,
I am a 'novice' who is DIY'ing the construction of a dynamic pdf form, using Adobe Livecycle Designer 7 (I know, it's a VERY old version!)
[So, any help that comes along must be 'for Idiots'!]
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Hey TundraSteve,
Thanks a tonne!
Works perfectly!!!
In fact, your solution is so elegant and direct, that even I am beginning to get a sense of how it works... I have looked at LOTS of similar codes in the past few days, but was not at all getting a sense of how they are working! But comparing your solution with the earlier one I mentioned, I am beginning to get a sense of things!
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Hello,
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I have created a dynamic form in LiveCycle Designer 9 - saved it as a Dynamic XML Form - opened it in Acrobat X - saved it as Reader Extended PDF and Enabled Additional Features. My colleagues will then need to open it in Reader X and select the option to draw and place thier signature in the text field I have provided them with. When I open the form in Reader X and click on the SIGN tab I get the following error message:
The security settings on this document prevent adding text and/or placing a signature on it from Adobe Reader. To fill and sign this document you need to print it out.
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