Capabilities
Create streamlined business logic
With Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer ES3 software, development teams can work collaboratively, to create and preview templates, bind XML or ASCII data to back-end systems, and ensure that forms and processes are working together as effectively and efficiently as possible. Use the Action Builder to simplify the creation of common form behaviors. Quickly find and correct programming errors by checking the syntax of FormCalc and JavaScript code. You can also specify the version of Adobe Reader® software that a form is targeting, and LiveCycle Designer ES3 will alert the form author when any form objects are used that require a later version of Reader.
Enjoy sophisticated data capture
Designer ES3 includes a comprehensive set of data capture field objects like dynamic tables, barcodes, and comb fields. You can integrate with core business systems by using advanced data binding to XML schemas, web services, databases, XML data files, and other sources. You can select from a list of common patterns, or easily create your own to control the input formats and validation of the data.
Work with flexible print controls
PDF Print options with Designer ES3 enable you to specify default options for printing from Adobe Reader, such as number of copies, duplex/simplex, and printing automatically on open. You can also take advantage of a variety of label printer support options and RFID barcodes.
Design with advanced layout capabilities
With Designer ES3, you can completely preserve the appearance of imported PDF documents. PDF "artwork" serves as a background on which form fields can be placed, so that forms can be quickly created with no touchup of the layout. You also have typographical controls such as automatic pair kerning, horizontal and vertical scaling, letter spacing, and hyphenation. And Designer ES3 also provides spell-check, customizable user dictionaries, and the ability to add additional dictionaries.
Improve efficiency with form fragments
A form fragment is a collection of fields or objects that are grouped together, such as your company description, address block, financial information, and so on. Whenever a new form is needed, you can pull together predefined fragments rather than creating a form from scratch one field or object at a time. Since fragments are stored in a file system or in the LiveCycle repository and are referenced by XML templates, fragments are also useful when updating large collections of form templates. Any time a fragment is updated, the templates that reference it are automatically updated as well, saving significant development time.
