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Working with forms

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Creating graphically effective form designs

• Part 1: Introduction to concepts
• Part 2: Typography
• Part 3: Final word(s)

Leveraging Adobe LiveCycle Designer with ColdFusion

Develop applications that leverage LiveCycle Designer for the form submission process via ColdFusion.

Leveraging Adobe LiveCycle Forms with ColdFusion

Learn how to develop applications that leverage Adobe LiveCycle Forms via the SOAP Client API.

Developing a .NET web application using Adobe LiveCycle Forms

Learn how to integrate Adobe LiveCycle Forms with a .NET web application.

Using Adobe LiveCycle software for dynamic magazine surveys in multiple formats (PDF, 1.3M)

SmartDoc Technologies is using Adobe LiveCycle software to deliver personalized surveys that improve the qualitative and quantitative readership statistics for magazines.

BLX's component for Adobe LiveCycle Forms (PDF, 546k)

Learn how a ColdFusion component that leverages the Adobe LiveCycle Forms web service can facilitate PDF document rendering in an environment with no in-house Java expertise.

Deploying Adobe LiveCycle software in the enterprise environment (PDF, 658k)

This paper illustrates what Adobe LiveCycle components need to be deployed and how these components can be deployed in the enterprise through two use cases in the insurance and banking industries.

Routing forms

Migrating from Acrobat forms to XML forms (PDF, 298k)

This tip discusses converting JavaScript and actions created in Acrobat (using AcroForms) to work in Adobe LiveCycle Designer (using XML forms).

Rendering forms

renderCache processing and performance in Adobe LiveCycle Forms 7.1 (PDF, 288k)

This guideline applies to LiveCycle Forms 7.1 and Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1. It describes renderCache processing and its impact on performance when you render forms using LiveCycle Forms 7.1.

Prepopulating forms (PDF, 931k)

Use the contents of the AWS_ASSIGNED_ID field to prepopulate forms in Adobe LiveCycle Workflow 7.0.

Managing forms

Working with legacy forms (PDF, 528k)

What do you do if you only have paper versions of forms that need to be integrated into your electronic forms solution? This tip gives you some ideas about how to proceed.

Reader extensions

Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions turnkey installation

Watch this presentation to learn why LiveCycle Reader Extensions is required and how to install its turnkey for use with barcoded 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.

Migrating to Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions

Get help migrating to Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions from previous versions of the product, including Adobe Reader Extensions Server and Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions software.

Barcoded forms

Sample: Processing 2D barcoded PDF forms

This Java-based sample application demonstrates how to integrate the Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms 7.0 ST Decoder into a complete workflow.

Best practices of LiveCycle Barcoded Forms and PDF 417 barcodes

Understand what a PDF 417 barcode is exactly and how you can maximize your barcode capacity as well as obtain the best read-rates possible.

Deploying 2D barcoded PDF forms (PDF, 740k)

Learn how Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions helps to get a barcode-enabled form licensed and prepared for deployment.

Adobe Acrobat 8 and barcoded forms (PDF, 1M)

Learn how to capture user-supplied data from printed forms in Acrobat 8 using Adobe 2D barcode technology.