Working With Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Adobe live cycle designer is usually used to create 'forms'. You can use your own form or you can use templates and modify them according to your needs. 

It is very easy to create forms for varying needs using Adobe LiveCyle Designer. I have experienced creating 'forms' using Adobe LiveCycle Designer available with Adobe Acrobat 8 and 9. So I can say it for sure that these two versions can support you with creating Adobe 'forms'.

So lets start to create a form. I am going to give examples using Adobe Acrobat 9. Whether it is Acrobat 8 or 9, you have two options to create a 'form'.

1. Using available templates.
2. Start with your own.

Click on 'New form Template' to start from a template. You will get a whole lot of templates to choose one from.Look at the list in the window below.

Select the template you want and click next to proceed. You will be taken through the available steps where you get a place to insert all the company details and ultimately creating the required form. 

You can even set the email address to forward the form, a print button to facilitate printing as shown in the window below. And lot more things after  template creation as well

Click on Finish to finish the creation.

So now you got your 'form' and you can even customize it according to your needs. Here you can see the Design view.

Click on the Preview PDF tab to preview the PDF. You will be getting a view as below.

Then you can go again to the Design tab and use Object Library as shown below to to do modifications to your 'form'. You can drag and drop objects from the object library.

You can edit the gragged and dropped objects as well. For that, first of all you have to click on the object you want to edit. Ex: Radio Button. Then go to View --> Object Editor

You will get the following view. In Adobe 8, you wont get this view. Instead you will get a nice Object Property window to proceed with editing.

So now do the changes to the objects according to your wish. Add or remove objects and try to land in your desired form.