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Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8

Release information Q: How will Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 be shipped? A: LiveCycle Designer 8 software is shipping with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for Windows . LiveCycle Designer 8 only ships with Acrobat Professional software. It does not ship as a standalone product. Q: Whats the goal of LiveCycle Designer 8? A: LiveCycle Designer 8 is an integral part of the Acrobat 8 Professional form workflows. LiveCycle Designer and Acrobat have improved the workflow for designing and distributing ad hoc PDF forms and extracting completed form data into a spreadsheet. Improvements in this workflow include the ability to automatically detect forms fields on a PDF form, Adobe Reader enablement for locally saving data with Acrobat, and a more integrated workflow between Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer.

Platform and language support Q: Which languages does LiveCycle Designer 8 ship in? A: LiveCycle Designer 8 is available in the same languages as Acrobat 8: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Q: What languages are supported for forms creation in LiveCycle Designer 8? A: You can create forms for the following languages: Albanian Arabic Azerbaijani-Cyrillic Azerbaijani-Latin Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Norwegian-Bokmal Norwegian-Nynorsk Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian-Cyrillic Serbian-Latin Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukranian Vietnamese

Q: What operating systems are supported by LiveCycle Designer 8? A: LiveCycle Designer 8 supports the following operating systems: Windows XP Professional SP2 Windows XP Home Windows XP Tablet PC Windows 2000 Professional SP4 Windows 2000 Server Windows Server 2003 Q: What are the system requirements for LiveCycle Designer 8? A: Intel Pentium III at 450MHz or equivalent processor 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended) 860MB of hard disk space (for Acrobat 8 Professional including LiveCycle Designer 8) Version compatibility Q: Do LiveCycle Designer 8 forms support earlier versions of Reader? A: Yes, you can create PDF forms for Reader versions 6, 7, or 8. Q: What version of XFA does LiveCycle Designer 8 use? A: LiveCycle Designer 8 uses XFA version 2.5. An updated specification will be posted after the release of LiveCycle Designer 8. Whats new in LiveCycle Designer 8? Import a PDF document as artwork LiveCycle Designer 8 now gives you two ways to import a PDF document:

You can convert the PDF to XML. This allows you to edit the form content, make the form flowable, or multicast it to other targets like HTML or PCL using Adobe LiveCycle Forms. However, some of the original layout can be lost if the fonts used are not available or if the PDF contains complex graphical structures. You can import a PDF document as background artwork to maintain the original layout and appearance. Form fields can then be placed onto the PDF layout. These types of forms cannot be made flowable, and the form boilerplate cannot be edited. If you import a PDF document that was created in Adobe Acrobat as background artwork and that contains form fields, LiveCycle Designer 8 converts those fields to the corresponding form objects in the Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA). Spelling checker The new spelling checker lets you check the spelling of text as you type or perform a global spelling check when you create a form design. Additional spelling options allow you to select the items to include in spelling checks, the language to spell-check with, and what dictionary to use. The user can add new terms to their own dictionary or correct spellings.

Templates Templates are designed to help an Acrobat user quickly create common forms. LiveCycle Designer ships with several common forms in various styles. The templates installed with LiveCycle Designer 8 now contain text and images that can be replaced with your companys name, address, telephone number, and logo. When a form is created based on a template that contains fields with customizable text or images, the New Form Assistant wizard enables you to change the information displayed in each field to suit your needs. You can also use the New Form Assistant wizard to create a form based on spreadsheet columns. LiveCycle Designer creates a text field from each column you select in the spreadsheet. The name of each column header becomes the name of text field captions.

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Distribute a form After you create a form in LiveCycle Designer, you can use the Distribute feature in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional to send the form to a group of recipients to fill out. The Distribute feature lets you send the form along with a set of instructions on how to fill out the form. After recipients have completed the form, they click the Send button on the form and it is returned to the form creator with the information. You can edit objects in the form design using the Field Editor. The Field Editor feature provides an easy way to access common properties such as the field name, type, and context menu.

Field Editor

Digital signatures You can now apply two types of digital signatures in LiveCycle Designer: document signatures and data signatures. Document signatures secure fields and their values. You can apply document signatures to an entire form or a collection of fields. You can also determine which fields are being signed by a document signature. This allows you to create workflows that support sectional signatures where users are able to sign off designated form fields. Data signatures secure the form data and guarantee the data integrity during transmission. Data signatures can be applied to the form data only for an entire submission. Both document and data signatures allow you to specify a number of settings on the signature, such as the name of the signature handler, roaming id location, permitted certificate, individuals that may sign, and the reasons for signing. LiveCycle Designer now allows you to generate and test a data field from a form design. Use this data to preview your form and drive dynamic layout. You can also select the number of repeating elements to be generated in your data file. Comb fields are fields that separate each character of the fields to enhance the readability on paper forms for processing by people and optical character recognition (OCR) and image character recognition (ICR) technologies. LiveCycle Designer 8 now lets you create comb fields out of text, date/time, and numeric fields by selecting the comb field property and number of characters on the field object tab.

Test data generation

Comb fields

Checkbox and radio button styles You can now select the fill style of a checkbox or radio button. Choices include checks, circles, crosses, diamonds, squares, and stars.

Button highlighting behavior LiveCycle Designer 8 allows you to specify the style of the button highlight you want to use. The choices are None, Inverted, Push, and Outline. The Push behavior allows you to specifiy different rollover and down captions. In addition to supporting the creation of data connections with schemas that reference other schemas (through mechanisms such as <XS:import>) that had to reside on the local hard drive, LiveCycle Designer now permits those schemas to be referenced using a URI. LiveCycle Designer 8 allows you to define any form object to be visible on screen but not when printed, or visible only when printed but not on the screen. Previously this was possible only with button objects.

Uniform resource identifier (URI) references in schemas

Presence settings

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Show all scripts Its now easier to display all the scripts in a page or the entire form. Select the form or page in the hierarchy and the script editor will display all the scripts in child objects. You can turn this capability off and on in the script editor. LiveCycle Designer now supports single color transparency in PNG and GIF image files.

Transparent images

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