Opening LiveCycle Designer ES

Whenever I try to open the program to work on a form, it quickly flashes onto the screen, disappears, and Adobe Acrobat Professional opens instead. Then I have to go to Forms; Create New Form, etc. to eventually be able to get LiveCycle to open so I can work on my form in Design View. (I am working in Windows XP, v 5.1). Does everyone have to go thru this? Shouldn't LiveCycle just open when it is clicked on in the programs list or it's desktop icon?
Thanks for your help...Kris

We found an article on Adobe's site that described the exact problem I was having. We tried to fix the problem according to Adobe's instructions, but were not able to find the settings they described in the article. However, digging around in the Windows settings seems to have lodged something loose because now LiveCycle launches correctly every time I click on it. Thanks for responding to my problem.

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When you design a form in LC Designer ES2 you can set the target version of Acrobat/Reader in the File > Form Properties > Defaults tab.
While you can target v7, you need to be aware that some of the functionality in LC Designer ES2 is not supported in Reader v7. For example in LC Designer you can set the presence of an object to 'visible (screen only)', but this is not supported in Reader v7, so would cause a problem. So for each form you would need to set the target version and then check the Warnings palette to see if there are any problems.
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2.2
7.0
2.3
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3.0
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3.3
10.0
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[email protected] wrote:
> If I correctly understand what you're trying to do then Adobe XPAAJ should be adquate:
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> Below is a link to a "video" demonstration of building an application that uses XPAAJ:
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> (I don't think your question about having to write an XDP file is crucial to what you're trying to do, but you don't need to write an XDP file -- it is a "save as" option within Designer. You can save a Designer file as either PDF or XDP. Or both, one after the other, if you need both.)
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http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/bc59d422150595157c212a5b181313244g.jpg
I don't know what to do and wanted to see if I could solve this problem before I was forced to try to manually reinstall it so hopefully I don't have to go through that. I appreciate the help once again!

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http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/bc59d422150595157c212a5b181313244g.jpg
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Hi,
I have a few screenshots here that show Windows XP and Vista: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2226510#2226510.
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Designer\8.2\
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My Adobe LiveCycle Designer opens up and it was working previously as mentioned, but when I try to open it by either opening or converting a form or creating a new form with a template, I am not able to as it gives me an error message and closes! It gives me an error message of "Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES has stopped working" and a screenshot of this is provided at the following link:
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/bc59d422150595157c212a5b181313244g.jpg
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Livecycle Designer Error- everytime I open FORMS-HELP!

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Can anyone who is having these issues send the crash dump to [email protected] and I will forward them to R&D for investigation.
Here are instructions on where and how to get the dump files.
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Sometimes it is useful to capture an ad-hoc minidump file from FormDesigner when it crashes. Here are instructions for doing this on Vista, and XP.
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Please wait message when opening form created by Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 9.0

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Please wait message when opening form created by Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 9.0
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Thanks & Regards
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