LiveCycle Developer Center

Understanding the differences between static and dynamic PDF forms (PDF, 126KB)

Adobe (July 28, 2008)
Know when to save your form design as a static or dynamic PDF form in LiveCycle Designer ES.

Scripting support for HTML forms and form guides (PDF, 221KB)

Adobe (July 28, 2008)
Learn about the XML Form Object Model scripting events, objects, properties, and methods that are available for forms rendered in HTML and as form guides.

Customizing form guides

Gilles Maurice (Mar. 31, 2008)
Create custom form guide libraries, guide layouts, and panel layouts using Flex Builder.

Using fragments

Adobe (June 4, 2007)
Use fragments to simplify and speed up the creation and maintenance of large numbers of forms.

LiveCycle Designer ES Scripting Reference (PDF, 3MB)

Adobe (June 4, 2007)
This guide describes the different objects available in the XML Form Object Model for scripting and their associated properties and methods.

Strategies for creating forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8

Follow the strategies and suggestions when creating forms using LiveCycle Designer 8.

Using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 with the Adobe LiveCycle 7.2 release

Maintain compatibility between LiveCycle Designer 8 and the LiveCycle 7.2 products.

LiveCycle Designer Scripting Basics (LiveCycle Designer 8.0)

Learn how you can use calculations and scripts to develop and enhance forms created in LiveCycle Designer.

What's new in Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8

Get a summary of new features and enhancements in LiveCycle Designer 8.

Adobe XML Form Object Model Reference (Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8) (PDF, 2.9 MB)

The Adobe XML Form Object Model provides a form design–based approach to creating forms that distinguishes between the form's layout and content.

• Best Practices for improving performance in dynamic PDF forms (PDF, 566K)

  Learn the best practices in creating dynamic interactive PDF forms in LiveCycle Designer for use with Adobe Reader 7.0.5 and later.

• Using an XML schema to build a PDF form

  Import an XML schema into a form design and bind the schema to the form.

• Compatibility of Adobe LiveCycle Designer 6.0 form designs with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 (PDF, 269k)

  This document describes the issues that you may encounter when working with LiveCycle Designer 6.0 form designs in LiveCycle Designer 7.1.

• Providing interactive database lookup from forms (PDF, 1.1M)

  Learn how to use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 to write data to and retrieve information from databases.

• Using XML schema definitions with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 (PDF, 722k)

  Use XML schema definitions to create electronic forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0.

• Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 tips (PDF, 1.4M)

  Start building forms using the LiveCycle Designer form design tool.

• Converting Acrobat JavaScript for use in Adobe LiveCycle Designer forms (PDF, 549k)

  This document explains how to convert JavaScript contained in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Standard forms for use in Adobe LiveCycle Designer forms.

• LiveCycle Reader Extensions web service sample (ZIP, 6.07M)

  A sample web service that uses Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions. Includes an EAR file for deployment as well as the source code that can be directly imported into Eclipse.

• Adobe XML Forms architecture (XFA)

  The Adobe XML architecture combines the powerful data and business logic capabilities of XML with the rich presentation capabilities of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

• Using XML schema definitions with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 (PDF, 722k)

  Use XML schema definitions to create electronic forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0.

• Adding new data to an existing DATA DOM (ZIP, 613k)

  This sample shows how you can add new data to an existing DATA DOM.