This document is intended for form authors and developers who are responsible for creating forms. It provides strategies and suggestions to follow when people create forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.

This document covers the following topics:

• Overview of creating form designs
• Selecting form content in the Hierarchy palette
• Choosing fonts that ensure accurate output and minimal output size
• Using explicit data binding
• Using repeating subforms to show or hide objects
• Using dynamic properties to bind data to a list
• Using field patterns for universal formatting
• Ensuring that forms are accessible
• Using subforms to flow and position content
• Preserving decimal digits when calculating

Read the article:

• Strategies for Creating Forms Using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 (PDF, 1 MB)

Requirements

In order to make the most of this document, you need to have a solid understanding of form designs and the following software:

LiveCycle Designer 8

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Where to go from here

Read the following articles about Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8:

• What's new in Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8
• Adobe XML Form Object Model Reference (Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8) (PDF, 2.9 MB)
• LiveCycle Designer Scripting Basics (LiveCycle Designer 8.0)

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